ELL: Akha Weekly Update

[Matthew McDaniel]

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Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 17:11:18 +0000
From: Matthew McDaniel <akha at loxinfo.co.th>
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The tv is for showing a specific film to the Akha, one which they helped make.
That is all. It takes 30 minutes unless they ask to see it more than once
which
they usually do.

If you are concerned about language I would suggest that you write a letter of
protest to the Maesai Baptist Church which is run by the Chinese and
specificly
forbids the culture of the Akhas if they are to get any kind of aid, and also
as
a part of conversion which that mission is pressuring on village after village
in
this area.

That is a right to language and culture which can be addressed.

I would also like to know, to whom one might complaind when a mission is
specifically forbidding people's culture?

As far as I know there is no body international that holds missions
accountable
for that minor detail.

This seems like a very large hole in the net.

Language and culture are a right, but a right that no current power is willing
to
enforce.
Wish they would.

Matthew






nEnIu wrote:

> >It might be noted that these particular villages have TVs, not many but a
> >few.  Some they run on 12 volt car batteries.
>
> it's somehow strange how much they invest for watching tv broadcasts
> of a foreign culture which people behave like enemies to them for
> absorbing their culture.
> tv threats also minority languages and educates people in a standard
> culture and in a standard pronounce of a national language .
> I don't know if tv films are subtitled where the akha are but subtitled
> tv has already caused that many people of small nations in europe
> feel familiar with us language and culture and don't really need
> the subtitles anymore .
> if there tv is like in europe one might believe you want the akha to
> become little americans .
>
> >I hope that the Akha will have choices, human rights choices
> >especially. Ones
> >like we enjoy in the west.
> >
> do you consider language as a human right ?
>
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Matthew McDaniel
The Akha Heritage Foundation
386/3 Sailom Joi Rd
Maesai, Chiangrai, 57130
Thailand
Mobile Phone Number:  Sometimes hard to reach while in Mountains.
66-01-881-9288

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Donations by check or money order may be sent to:

The Akha Heritage Foundation
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