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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:left"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font><font><br></font></font></span></p><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>From: <span class="gI"><span name="Luc Vanbrabant" class="gD"></span></span></font><font><span class="gI"><span name="Luc Vanbrabant" class="gD"><span class="gI"><span name="Hellinckx Luc" class="gD">Hellinckx Luc</span> <span class="go"><a href="mailto:luc.hellinckx@gmail.com">luc.hellinckx@gmail.com</a></span></span></span><span class="go"></span></span></font><font><span><span name="Roger Thijs"></span><span></span></span></font><font><span><span name="Roger Thijs"><span><span></span></span></span><span></span></span><br>
Subject: <span class="gI">LL-L "Education"</span></font><font><span><span><span class="gI"><br><br></span></span></span></font><font><span><span></span></span></font>Beste Ingmar,</span><br><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>
</span><div><div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">You wrote:</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="text-align:center">
<div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font><span><span>Interesting. I wonder though why 44% of the (Belgian) readers found this
news 'depressing' and only 28% heart-warming... Are the Dutch still
hated so much by the Flemish? Ingmar<br></span></span></font></span></div></div></blockquote><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>Definitely
not, the situation has improved, compared with a couple of decades ago.
However, some probably fear that the very reason why Belgian schools
have a fairly good reputation (being relatively strict) is now under
threat, because of a growing influx of (often more opinionated) Dutch
students. Mind you, this is not my point of view, the survey merely
reflects the mindset of its own readership, which in the case of "Het
Laatste Nieuws" is predominantly liberal. What "liberal" stands for in
Belgium is another matter...people sometimes speak of "dark blue" and
"light blue" which then coincides with a more conservative or a more
progressive wing.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Kind greetings,</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>
</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Luc Hellinckx, Halle, Belgium<br><br>----------<br><br><font>From: <span class="gI"><span name="Luc Vanbrabant" class="gD"></span></span></font><font><span class="gI"><span name="Luc Vanbrabant" class="gD"><span class="gI"><span name="Hellinckx Luc" class="gD"><span class="gI"><span name="Luc Vanbrabant" class="gD">Luc Vanbrabant</span> <span class="go"><a href="mailto:lucv32@gmail.com">lucv32@gmail.com</a></span></span></span><span class="go"></span></span></span><span class="go"></span></span></font><font><span><span name="Roger Thijs"></span><span></span></span></font><font><span><span name="Roger Thijs"><span><span></span></span></span><span></span></span><br>
Subject: <span class="gI">LL-L "Education" 2012.09.11 (02) [EN-NL]<br><br></span></font><span><span>On facebook: 148.965 persons like this. <br>So the problem is not that big.</span></span> 29% find it<font><span><span> heart-warming. Ok: but Flemings first look at their money and some of them might be afraid of paying more taxes!<br>
<br>Groetjes,<br>Luc Vanbrabant<br>Oekene</span></span></font><font><span><span><span class="gI"><br><br>----------<br><br>From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>Subject: Education<br>
<br>A while back there was talk about many Germans sending their children to Danish schools because of the supposed excellence of the Danish education system.<br><br>Is that still going on?<br><br>Regards,<br>Reinhard/Ron<br>
Seattle, USA<br><br>----------<br></span></span></span></font><br><font><span><span><span class="gI"><font>From: <span class="gI"><span name="Luc Vanbrabant" class="gD"></span></span></font><font><span class="gI"><span name="Luc Vanbrabant" class="gD"><span class="gI"><span name="Hellinckx Luc" class="gD"><span class="gI"><span name="Luc Vanbrabant" class="gD"></span></span></span></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></font><font><span><span><span class="gI"><font><span class="gI"><span name="Luc Vanbrabant" class="gD"><span class="gI"><span name="Hellinckx Luc" class="gD"><span class="gI"><span name="Luc Vanbrabant" class="gD"><span class="gI"><span name="Edwin Alexander" class="gD">Edwin Alexander</span> <span class="go"><a href="mailto:edsells@cogeco.ca">edsells@cogeco.ca</a></span></span></span><span class="go"></span></span></span><span class="go"></span></span></span><span class="go"></span></span></font><font><span><span name="Roger Thijs"></span><span></span></span></font><font><span><span name="Roger Thijs"><span><span></span></span></span><span></span></span><br>
Subject: <span class="gI">LL-L "Education" 2012.09.11 (02) [EN-NL]<br></span></font></span></span></span></font><br></span><div class="im"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
On 12/09/2012 1:22 AM, Roger wrote:
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<div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">There is a strong increase of Dutch kids being registered
transborder in Belgian primary and middle schools.(cf. URL below)</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Same holds at the French-Walloon border.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Is there a similar transborder exchange at the US-Canadian
border?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
Not at all. The real issues here are internal to Quebec, which has
just elected another "separatist" provincial government. Right now,
there is no chance that a referendum for separation would succeed, but
people, so I'm told, were fed up with the previous government, which
had suffered a number of scandals during its long tenure. Nonetheless,
the new government is saying that they will further restrict French
speaking citizens from attending English speaking educational
institutions. You can well understand the desire for the Quebecois to
receive an English education as this is a global phenomenon, so you may
see an increase in people sending their kids to boarding school in the
US if they can afford it.<br><br>
We hear of a lot about xenophobia in the US, with pushback of the
Spanish language everywhere. Not to fear: apparently the very popular
mayor of San Antonio, Texas, Julian Castro, who gave the keynote
address at the Democratic National Convention, only knows a few words
in the language of his parents.</span>
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br><br>
It also appears that many major native languages in Canada are doomed.
I have been slowly learning Eastern Ojibwe, but it is useless trying my
skills on persons younger than 35. They are teaching the language in
the schools, but when the kids get home, no one is using the language
there. We were at a local powwow a few weeks ago and I was chatting
with a middle aged person at a booth who was hawking "authentic"
ironwood bows that he had made. The weather had started to turn chilly
a bit, so I said, "wii gisinaa." He then said, "you know, I think it's
going to get cold." For those of you unfamiliar with this language,
just pull up a map of the US and Canada. All of the native looking
place names in Wisconsin, North Dakota, Saskatchewon, Ontario, Quebec,
and the maritime provinces, are from this language. The Mississippi,
is the mitchi sipi, the great river.</span>
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br><br>
Ed Alexander, Ontario, Canada.</span>
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