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| Defending the Indefensible |
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| In a message dated 9/24/2004 4:08:42 PM Pacific Standard Time, bcyp@ispbonanza.com.ph writes: PR Sakar wrote: People whose language is suppressed lose their moral courage, initiative and power to protest. Ultimately, a defeatist psychology develops in them and as a group such people face the prospect of total annihilation... The most important point in this regard is that such a linguistically suppressed group of people will always remain economically backward due to continuous psycho-economic exploitation." > That's exactlly what is happening to us, non-Tagalogs. We lose self-respect. Our identities as nations face the prospect of disappearance. ...But using Filipino as our medium of instruction and communication will inspire in us self-confidence and self-respect; and promote a sublime awareness of our cultural heritage. It will enhance our cultural identity, thus throwing off feelings of psychic inferiority and defeatist complexes that prevent us from attaining self-reliance and from fulfilling our inherent individual and collective potentials. *************************************************************** Well, this person is speaking from the Tagalog point of view - something many of us here in DILA do not share with. We have a cultural heritage different from his. What he has written, however, reflects the way we feel about the imposition of Pilipino as both our national language and medium of instruction. In our case, we prefer our own local languages. And like I always say, between the two languages being imposed on us, non-Tagalogs, the international language is the lesser evil. And the reason is, our local languages feel safer from being swallowed by a "killer shark". To parallel Quezon's nationalistic words, the regio-nationalist says, "I'd rather hear my people using the vernacular language in their schools and in their province and unable to communicate with the outside world, than hear them using another language and still unable to communicate with the outside world." CabaleRn |
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