<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body><div>Martyrdom syndrome - everybody's got it, legitimate or not. If you perceive that your ideology is being persecuted, it somehow makes it more legitimate.</div><div><br></div><div>I enjoyed this, being a Floridian recently transplanted to Texas. In Florida I grew up with the regional identity of the South being important. In Texas, the state identity of being Texan is the big deal. In both cases, there was a sense that these identities are more American than America itself, as you said. Granted, Texans would probably be fine having their own identity, since they aghast do, anyway.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:75%;color:#575757">Sent from my Samsung Epic™ 4G Touch</div></div> <br>Gareth Price <garethowenprice@gmail.com> wrote:<br>Hi All,<br><br>I thought some of you might find interesting a recent op-ed I wrote for the Huffington Post. It's on language, nationalism and the recent secession petitions in the US:<br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/garethprice/secession-petitions_b_2152763.html?utm_hp_ref=tw">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/garethprice/secession-petitions_b_2152763.html?utm_hp_ref=tw</a><br>
<br>(If that link breaks, then this one is shorter: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/c35d6fn">http://tinyurl.com/c35d6fn</a> )<br>Comments welcome - bearing in mind that some of the nuances of the issues have to be glossed over for a non-academic audience. <br>
<br>There's also a couple of older pieces on language and politics, here:<br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/garethprice/">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/garethprice/</a><br><br>Apologies for the paucity of my contributions to the list this year ... I've been snowed under ...<br>
<br>Best,<br><br>Gareth<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Gareth Price, Ph.D<br>Visiting Assistant Professor<br>Linguistics Program<br>Duke University<br>316 Languages, Box 90259<br>Durham, NC 27708-0259<br>USA<br><br>
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