LL-L "Language policies" 2002.10.13 (04) [E]

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From: Mike-club <botas at club-internet.fr>
Subject: LL-L "Language varieties" 2002.10.10 (08) [E]

Ron wrote:
>
>The traditional pattern is a general one, certainly in Europe:
> national label > ethnic label > language assignment -- the basic
assumptions
> being based on the ideal that nation, ethnicity and language should be
one,
> that diversity is an inconvenience rather than a blessing.
>
Ron, you couldn´t have described it better!
We are an inconvenience that has to be dealt with.
My question remains:
Are we Lowlanders, "minorities" in general, carriers of diversity,
going to leave it at that?
Perhaps posing the following question could get things moving
in reverse gear, make this "inconvenience" appear for what it really is -
like you say - a blessing:
Which is easier to shovel into a bag:
Fine sand or a few big boulders?
Is it easier to build Europe from a few big, ethnically
homogeneous states or a multitude of ethnically diverse regions?

Mike Wintzer

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