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For the inhabitants of the United States, the anglicization of the world is, just as Churchill predicted, a “grand convenience.” It allows them to do business in any part of the world. It also helps their ideas and ambitions to resound. Films, books, shows, music, and advertisements flow easily out of the United States, so that even the remotest
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Language fluency is activism. This is not about reclaiming purity, but embracing pluralism and contradiction. We reject colonial amnesia through language learning, even informally.
Babaylan, Bye Bye Lang : The National Colonial Amnesia
La relación entre lengua e identidad es intensamente personal. Dado que la lengua está íntimamente ligada a la identidad, a menudo se utiliza como guardián, y se avergüenza a los jóvenes latinos por estar “americanizados” o se considera que rechazan la cultura de origen