I was going to write about an indigenous community outside of Guatemala, but I just finished Naomi Klein’s excellent book, The Shock Doctrine, and the systematic destruction indigenous people’s way of life is still fresh in my mind. While I don’t have the book in front of me, I do have this handy link from [...]
Archive for February, 2010
A Language Dies in a Remote Island Chain
Language is an inseparable part of one’s culture. Why else would the French ban the word “email” from their government documents (they prefer to use the phrase “courier electronique)? To accept even a fraction of another culture’s language is to forever lose a part of your own. h Colonization – and its newer brother, neocolonization [...]
Posted by Shadi on February 13th, 2010
