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<DIV>Dear Mark:</DIV>
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<DIV>Just a quick clarification to the slight misunderstanding evident
in your statement:</DIV>
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<DIV>"Second, that the creation of universal language decrees and several high
paid government posts will be of any sufficient help."</DIV>
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<DIV>The Universal Declaration of Linguistic Rights, evidently, is not a
solution in its own right, but an attempt to define these rights, to raise
public consciousness as to their importance; as such it is a potential tool
for their defense and implementation. As for employment, I was thinking more of
"middle-class" jobs in education, media, commerce and bureaucracy, which would
tend to appear if the rights of native speakers to use their mother tongues in a
wider variety of social contexts were to be effectively supported. My words
"relatively well-paid and high-prestige jobs" were chosen with the native
speaker's perspective in mind; the word "relatively" was apparently not
sufficient to make this clear.</DIV>
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<DIV>As for the statement:</DIV>
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<DIV>"I believe that until democractic access to resources is made availabe to
indigenous people within their own culture and their own language there will not
be a fair place for indigenous cultures",</DIV>
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<DIV>I think you've hit the nail on the head!</DIV>
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<DIV>Thanks for the feedback and for giving me the opportunity to clarify my
earlier post.</DIV>
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<DIV>Peace,</DIV>
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<DIV>David Wright</DIV></BODY></HTML>