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Examples of Language Dominance
"A meeting is held to bring together arts practitioners and arts administrators to infuse post-Trump-election resistance movements with arts and culture. The meeting is advertised in English and the entire event is held in English..." 1/
"A meeting is held to bring together arts practitioners and arts administrators to infuse post-Trump-election resistance movements with arts and culture. The meeting is advertised in English and the entire event is held in English..." 1/
"...There is no interpreting provided or outreach to communities that prefer to communicate in other languages"
#Linguicism
http://antenaantena.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/AntenaAire_HowToBuildLanguageJustice-1.pdf
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#Linguicism
http://antenaantena.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/AntenaAire_HowToBuildLanguageJustice-1.pdf
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"In many school districts, bilingual education initiatives do not teach students to read and write in languages other than English, effectively reducing their literacy in those languages to speaking only."
#Linguicism
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#Linguicism
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"In 2008, the Mississippi Department of Human Services took away the newborn daughter of Cirila Baltazar Cruz, a Chatino speaking immigrant from Oaxaca, demanding that 'Ms Baltazar Cruz learn English before she could reunify with her daughter..."
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"Ms Baltazar Cruz was not provided with an interpreter during the investigation and was only reunified with her daughter after receiving legal assistance from @splcenter "
#Linguicism
https://www.mercurynews.com/2014/03/12/mexican-immigrant-sues-after-newborn-seized-by-mississippi-agency/
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#Linguicism
https://www.mercurynews.com/2014/03/12/mexican-immigrant-sues-after-newborn-seized-by-mississippi-agency/
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"Despite laws to the contrary, many landlords transmit crucial information, including lease updates, to their tenants in English only, regardless of whether those tenants are comfortable reading and understanding English"
#Linguicism
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#Linguicism
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"During a pandemic when millions are losing their jobs, in California, unemployment claims must be completed in Spanish or English. At least 220 other languages are regularly spoken in California households, and nearly 50% of residents speak a language other than EN at home"
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"New York City healthcare workers report that COVID-19 with #LimitedEnglishProficiency are left 'alone, confused, and without the appropriate care'. A Brooklyn nurse said it takes too long to get an interpreter, so 'we're not going to call unless we need consent or they die."
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"Of the more than 300 indigenous languages once spoken in the land we now refer to as the US, approx 175 are actively used today. That no. is estimated to drop to roughly 20 in the next 3 decades, without robust revitalization efforts"
#Linguicism
@DebHaalandNM
@USInterior
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#Linguicism
@DebHaalandNM
@USInterior
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"These, alongside so many other realities, are all examples of #Linguicism :
A system of oppression based on language that results in structural advantages for dominant language --- English, in the case of the US --- speakers and disadvantages for non-dominant lang speakers" 10/
A system of oppression based on language that results in structural advantages for dominant language --- English, in the case of the US --- speakers and disadvantages for non-dominant lang speakers" 10/
" #Linguicism marks some languages as 'official' or 'professional' or 'important' and others as less so.
Linguicism means being cut off from learning our ancestral languages ---the ones we can still access---or experiencing significant barriers when we attempt to reconnect." 11/
Linguicism means being cut off from learning our ancestral languages ---the ones we can still access---or experiencing significant barriers when we attempt to reconnect." 11/
"Eradication of indigenous languages is part of colonial processes, and language revitalization is one important way to counter it."
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