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Wayne Leman wayneleman at VFEMAIL.NET
Thu Mar 29 23:02:31 UTC 2007


Ah, maybe not in Australia, but here in the U.S. we have many who say this. 
We even have an English Only movement trying to legislate the idea that to 
be American means that you must speak English. No other languages, not even 
the First Nations, or Native American, languages will qualify a person to be 
truly American. Just English, the language of the colonizers.

Wayne
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Wayne Leman
Cheyenne website: http://www.geocities.com/cheyenne_language


> Note that if you apply the sentiment to a dominant language/culture, it 
> becomes highly offensive to most of us... e.g. you have to speak English 
> to be Australian... only the most rightwing people could tolerate this 
> sentiment.
>
> Greg Dickson



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