[lg policy] Philippines: Its time to abolish the national language policy

[Harold Schiffman]

Its time to abolish the national language policy

As i have been saying before, the problem is not Tagalog the language
and the people but the POLICY of having a national language
(incidentally based on Tagalog) which resulted in sidelining other
Filipino languages and distorting the way we look at the ethnic
composition of our country.  This unintentionally created first class
and second class Filipinos causing unity hard to achieve.

If we don’t have a national language and we just simply communicate in
English or whatever major Filipino languages (Ilocano, Tagalog,
Cebuano, etc) understandable and convenient to the involved parties,
the degree of respect and understanding among the ethnic groups will
improve.

In our schools we can emphasize and teach to our students the
diversity of our people as we are no longer burdened of promoting an
illussion that we Filipinos are “this and that” based mainly on
Tagalog culture.


http://scopemix.wordpress.com/2012/02/17/its-time-to-abolish-the-national-language-policy/
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