[PLUG-TALK] Re: [PLUG] Sounds good to me ;)
Jeme A Brelin
jeme at brelin.net
Tue Jun 18 10:50:34 UTC 2002
On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, Craighead, Scot D wrote:
> What I was driving at (pun intended) was that we should not spend a
> lot of money translating everything into a bunch of foriegn languages.
Aye, there's the rub. ALL of the languages are "foreign".
> (By the way, are any of these languages native American?)
Nope. See above.
Those cultures are no longer living, merely half-preserved in ritual and
half-remembered in tradition. The destruction of the native language of
the people was one of the first and most important steps in the
destruction of that culture.
> Immigrating to the United States is a priviledge, not a right.
I'd say that statement has been false for most of the history of the
United States and I think it's pretty fucking arrogant of my grandfather's
generation to close the door on its way in.
J.
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