Why students do not study Russian anymore

[Udut, Kenneth]

Love of languages and complexity and patterns
for one thing - another hook may be religious.

Only reason I say religious, is that
I know from online, three Readers in the US in the
Russian Orthodox Church that are black.

One, Reader Michael Bishop, is always being
chided by his friends, not only for his choice
of religion, but also, "Why are you learning
Russian?  That's a white man's language!"

There *could* be an advertising campaign
(but one would have to be careful in wording
and any construed implications) - that points
out that you *don't* have to study only your
own cultural background...  perhaps
something that emphasises "bucking the trend".

[much in the same way men will take women's
studies]

-Kenneth

|[...]
|
|This leads to a question that I would like to pose to the list.  How does
|one get minority students interested in foreign languages, specifically
|Slavic languages?  I ask because no one had to use the old Pushkin trick
|to try to hook me in.  But, then again, I don't think that you have to be
|a particularly ethnicity to study the history or language of a certain
|ethnicity.
|
|Just my $.02 kopecks,
|Cheri C. Wilson

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