Re: CHAT: Multi-Lingos

"Thomas R. Wier" wrote:

> But I think this misses the point, somewhat:  the question is not whether linguistic
> repression in America goes on, but *why* that repression goes on, and specifically
> whether that repression is a result of American culture.
Indeed, and why it goes on *despite* explicit norms of American culture.

> As I said in my last response,
> repression because of linguistic background goes on or has gone on in (virtually) all
> societies and nations:
Granted.

> the Germans repressed the Sorbians, the Spanish the Basques and
> Catalans, the Turks the Kurds, the French virtually everyone not French.
None of these nations possessed legal freedom-of-speech guarantees at the
time the abuses were being committed.  The U.S. did.

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