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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From:
<span class="gd"><span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Marcus Buck</span></span><span class="gi"> </span><span class="go"><<a href="mailto:list@marcusbuck.org">list@marcusbuck.org</a>></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject:
<span class="gi">LL-L "Etymology" 2010.09.24 (01) [EN]</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: navy;">From: Hellinckx Luc <<a href="mailto:luc.hellinckx@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="color: navy;">luc.hellinckx@gmail.com</span></a>>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: navy;">Subject: LL-L
"Language learning"</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: navy;">You wrote:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: navy;">Sarrazin wrote a book about how the Germans will go extinct if they
don't do anything about it ("Deutschland schafft sich ab"). He had
nice populistic theses like "I do not want to excuse myself for being
German", "German must be spoken on German schoolyards",
"too much young resident aliens are criminal", "lock away child
molesters forever" etc., and in interviews he offered nice wisdoms with
enormous scientific depth like "all Jews share a gene"</span></p>
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Sarrazin's family name doesn't make himself sound über-German: < Saracens.
Always happens with the "last who got in"...they seem to have these
"Après moi, le déluge" feelings more than any other. </span></p>
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Boundary value problem for human geographers.</span></p>
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Sarrazin has Huguenot roots. That means his family is in Germany for
more than 300 years. And if you would confront him with his foreign roots he'd
take it as acknowledgement of his arguments ;-) He's not an outright racist.
He's more focused on culture like "assimilate or stay away from Germany".
(Although he sometimes resorts to arguments that are hard to interpret in a
non-racist way.) So he'd take his own French (and possible Saracen) roots as a
positive story of assimilation (the euphemism "integration" is used
when "assimilation" is meant in Germany's public discussion).<br>
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Interestingly enough Sarrazin is a member of SPD, the Social Democratic Party,
not CDU, the Christian Democratic Union and more conservative party, or any of
the right-wing parties.<br>
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The discussions around Sarrazin are also interesting in another respect: the
total ignorance of the German public for their autochthonous minorities. You
would think that in a nation-wide discussion about language, culture and
integration the perspective of the native minorities like Sorbians, Frisians,
Romany, Low Saxons, and the Danish would be relevant and part of the
discussion. But it doesn't happen. Nobody mentioned them anywhere. Sarrazin did
not, the 'Bild' did not, none of the more respectable newspapers did it, none
of the big TV stations, none of the politicians that commented the situation.
Nobody did. Most worryingly not even the representatives of the minorities
themselves tried to give their perspective. It seems everybody accepts their
gradual vanishing and not even the organized language activists develop enough
energy to even say "Hey there, we do exist!" when somebody proclaims
that Germany
should be German-only. It's sad and it's the certain path to extinction. I
should write a book about it! It certainly will sell 650,000 copies ;-)
"De Plattdüütschen schafft sik sülms af".<br>
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Marcus Buck</p><p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">----------</p><p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">
<br></p><p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>>
<br>Subject:Language politics<br><br>Marcus, might fear of seeming disloyal play a role in the silence, especially in the Low Saxon community which has pretty much lost its separate ethnic identity?<br><br>Regards,<br>Reinhard/Ron<br>
Seattle, USA<br><br>P.S.: OK, everyone. Let me remind you to keep topics apart.<br></p>
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