[Edling] Pennsylvania language policy

[David Balosa]

Thank you Edling for posting this article!  As a Pennsylvanian citizen, I
applaud this state language policy that I describe as a  "mindset of
humanizing language policy." It would be interesting to see how the federal
government (its social and political elites) will show perspicacity on this
process. The position of no-return status of Spanish as the de facto
official language next to English in the United States is a socioeconomic
and political reality. For this reality to translate into a political
legitimacy, in my opinion, the political will toward mutual linguistic
right recognition needs a mindset of humanizing language policy. Although
it would be naive to ignore the politicization of this mindset, the most
important concern is that it serves a purpose that some of  applied
linguists and sociolinguists and related field of inquiries scholars have
been proposing for decades.

Language policy that dignifies a state, encourages all of those advocating
for global social justice to be optimistic towards the future of linguistic
justice even within regimes that propone  the tyrannies of unchangeable
mindsets.

Ocean of thanks,

David Balosa

On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 9:01 PM, jamie l. schissel <jamie.schissel at gmail.com
> wrote:

> From Rep. Leslie Acosta
> "The U.S. Census Bureau projects that the nation’s Hispanic population
> will reach 132.8 million within the next 30 years and constitute 30 percent
> of the overall population of the United States. Pennsylvania needs to be
> progressive and forward-thinking in how we deal with this change and
> instituting Spanish as our state’s official language will put us well ahead
> of the curve."
>
>
> http://aldianews.com/articles/politics/states-only-latina-rep-was-literally-silenced-during-house-hearing-english-only-bill/40620
>
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*David M. Balosa, MS.Ed/TESOL, MA.Ed
*Doctoral Student, PhD Program in Language, Literacy and Culture (LLC)*

Interculturalists GSO President 2012-2013
*University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
**1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250*


The world would be a better place if we all strive for solidarity and human
dignity.
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