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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rich Vazquez
Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 12:12 PM
To: The Digital Divide Network discussion group
Subject: Re: [DDN] Spanish Language materials at midst of controversy
Usually when I see the argument that some immigrants
Hello All:
As a person who speak 4, 5 languages (not to boost my ability but to illustrate
the possible problems), and constantly lived/live in countries that I have to
use languages that I am not absolutely fluent with, I become quite critical
about usefulness/harm languages would do to a
Usually when I see the argument that some immigrants do not think
they should learn the language the argument is missing a survey of
the actual community and a mention of actual measurement of that
attitude. No evidence except anecdotal.
However, the argument is made and has been made for
The link to the Denver Post article was working when I checked. The verbal
exchange reported in it speaks volumes about some popular attitudes about
language and identity in the US and perhaps beyond (though such activism for
monolingualism may be mainly an American phenomenon):
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/10/2005 1:51 PM
To: The Digital Divide Network discussion group
Subject: Re: [DDN] Spanish Language materials at
midst of controversy
Clarification: The last link you provided appears to
simply contain
information published by REFORMA, such as mission,
goals and bylaws.
(At first I
Here's another article about the controversy:
http://rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_3988338,00.html
I can't get the Denver Post URL to work either.
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Andy Carvin
Program Director
EDC Center for Media Community
acarvin @ edc . org
Hello all:
To many people public service is a zero sum game--if there are resources
allocated to accomodate the needs of one segment of a community, they must be
being taken from MY community. Add in the English Only faction and you have
a fairly typical hyperbolic debate.
In 1967, Lillian
Clarification: The last link you provided appears to simply contain
information published by REFORMA, such as mission, goals and bylaws.
(At first I thought CAIRCO was saying those things!) Perhaps you
intended to link to http://www.cairco.org/library/library.html or some
other URL?
John
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