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<font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">From: </font><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span class="gI"><span class="gD">Helge Tietz</span> <span class="go"><a href="mailto:helgetietz@yahoo.com">helgetietz@yahoo.com</a></span></span></font><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><br>
Subject: </font><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span class="gI">LL-L "Language politics" 2012.03.02 (01) [EN-NL]</span><br><br></font>
<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font><span>Hi Lowlanders!<br></span></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font><span><br></span></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
<font><span>It
is frustrating that the climate here in the Netherlands has changed so
dramatically concerning diversity. Currently there is a moveent which is
even part of the governemnt which considers anything different to
themselves as a thread and discriminates it.They demand that immigrants
completely integrate into Dutch society but wouldn't see at all that the
same may be valid if they would emmigrate to e.g. Fryslon. It is simply
chauvinist, narrowminded and xenophobic and they feed their success
with doomszenarios and fear. Coming from Sleswick-Holsten I can only
comment that we have been there before and my family has drastically
seen the result of such policies and movements. Since the Breivik
incident in Norway they have been quieter in denouncing Muslims, now
they started instead on focussing on Eastern European immigrant
workers. My father's family derives from a Baltic family in East Prussia
and my Great grandfather from my mother's side was a certain Dorovski
from Masuria, eventually this movement here in the Netherlands has
caught up with me (and subsequently with my little son as well)
personally.</span></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font><br><span></span></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font><span>Besides,
there is a wonderful little essay online about the fate of the Jewish
doctor Bamberger from Rendsborg during the Nazi-dictatorship. It is in
German and written by a girl whose great-grandparents where the
parents-in-law of Dr. Bamberger in Remmels (near Hohenwestedt, Rendsborg
district). Hohenwestedt was a Nazi-stronghold and I try to imagine the
courage of family Vierth and Maschmann to protect him although they
couldn't prevent him commiting suicide in the end. <br></span></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>The link:
<a href="http://www.schule-hohe-geest.de/uploads/media/Dr.Bamberger.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.schule-hohe-geest.de/uploads/media/Dr.Bamberger.pdf</a><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
<font><br><span></span></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font><span>However,
not all is bad here in the Netherlands and during the
14-day-frostperiod I went north with my ice-skates to Fryslon and skated
from Fransjer to Ljouwert via Bartlehiem and it was fantastic, I made a
break in Bartlehiem and I almost exclusively heard Frisian there, whole
families from the smallest children to the grandparents. But what is
sad that Frisian is still effectively ignored by the authorities. In the
train from Ljouwert to Frantsjer no announcement in Frisian, only
Dutch, although the announcement s come from a tape. In Intercity trains
the conductors often make announcements in English as well, so why not
Frisian in the local train from Ljouwert to Frantsjer? It cannot cost
much to have somebody make an additional recording onto that tape. It is
simply not done and not wanted by the current government. Thus, their
treatment
of Low Saxon does not come as a surprise. But I don't care, I speak
Plattduetsch to min luetten soen and he is already repeating my words
and is picking it up, I could not imagine to speak any other laguage to
him than Plattduetsch!</span></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font><br><span></span></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font><span>Sodenni, laat eer man lopen.....<br>
</span></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font><br><span></span></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font><span>Groeten</span></font></div><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">Helge<br>
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