El Idioma Provoca Una Crisis De Identidad en Los Hijos Y Nietos De Inmigrantes Latinos

Indigenous languages were sites of conflict, too. Starting in the late nineteenth century, reformers pushed tens of thousands of Native American children into white-run boarding schools. There, cut off from their families and communities, the students studied English. “We shall break up all the Indian there is in them in a very short time,” promise

Yo venía del eros de la carencia, los míos me lo habían enseñado así. No habrá si no trabajas para que haya, niña. No tendrás si no pasas a la acción. Raciona para que te llegue. Éramos más tercos, pero también teníamos más miedo; siempre anticipándonos a lo que faltaría. Ella tenía una levedad que hacía fácil lo complicado, yo el arrojo del que ti

Our schools and colleges, institutions of the patriarchy, generally teach us to listen to people in power, men or women speaking the father tongue; and so they teach us not to listen to the mother tongue, to what the powerless say, poor men, women, children: not to hear that as valid discourse.

Interacting with proponents of this view requires learning not just their language—which in itself is challenging enough—but also their customs and even their mythology of “systemic” and “structural” problems inherent in our society, systems, and institutions. As experienced travelers know, there’s more to communicating in a completely different cu

Virtually every endangered language is endangered because its community was systematically targeted by genocide, forced cultural assimilation, some kind of political marginalization. On a practical level, language diversity encodes the sum of human cultural, historical and ecological knowledge. As a species, we lose knowledge when we lose languages