ELL: SIL's religion

[coyotez]

As well, there are implications that the SIL missionaries had investigated the
resources of third world areas, like the Amazon, for the benefit of the
Rockefellers. The Rockefellers helped fund the SIL and had a keen interest in
things Native, and they owned large oil and gas companies.
Convertion+Corporations=cultural disintegration and loss of languages.
David

>===== Original Message From Lakhan Gusain <lgusain at hotmail.com> =====
>I strongly support Lucas Husgen's view about SIL.
>Lakhan Gusain
>
>
>
>>From: "Lucas Husgen" <lhusgen at kirogi.demon.nl>
>>Reply-To: endangered-languages-l at cleo.murdoch.edu.au
>>To: <endangered-languages-l at cleo.murdoch.edu.au>
>>Subject: ELL: SIL's religion
>>Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 09:56:56 +0200
>>
>>  According to a story in Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad the Summer
>>Institute of Linguistics, which has fathered the Ethnologue, is not as
>>unbiased as it might seem. As I understand it's firstly a Christian
>>project, vising at the conversion into Christianity. Though it's fostering
>>endangered languages all around the world, it only does so in order to
>>promote the Bible in those languages, with sometimes disruptive
>>consequences, because those sent out into the streets to peddle the Bible
>>make an amount of money, way above the financial standards of their
>>respective communities. The most capable of these peddlers are being sent
>>to the States to have them discover that Christianity is the one and only
>>true religion - through of course prosperity, making them look down upon
>>their own background. So, finally, the work of SIL is vising at disrupting
>>those selfsame societies which they purport to protect. What does the list
>>have to say on this?
>>
>>Best regards,
>>Lucas
>
>
>
>
>_________________________________________________________________
>Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com
>
>----
>Endangered-Languages-L Forum: endangered-languages-l at cleo.murdoch.edu.au
>Web pages http://cleo.murdoch.edu.au/lists/endangered-languages-l/
>Subscribe/unsubscribe and other commands: majordomo at cleo.murdoch.edu.au
>----

David Lewis
Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde
Department Of Anthropology
University of Oregon

----
Endangered-Languages-L Forum: endangered-languages-l at cleo.murdoch.edu.au
Web pages http://cleo.murdoch.edu.au/lists/endangered-languages-l/
Subscribe/unsubscribe and other commands: majordomo at cleo.murdoch.edu.au
----