ELL: Akha Weekly Update

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Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 18:07:06 +1300
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>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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