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Those are logical reasons, but to do that you don't need to suppress writing and education in the local language. There are enough countries where both the loca
by gpvos 8y ago
Those are logical reasons, but to do that you don't need to suppress writing and education in the local language. There are enough countries where both the local and the national language are taught at school.
- avar 8y agoThere's even more countries that used to be part of a bigger nation or empire, but which split up largely by native language borders as their power waned. One way to view this sort of forced homogenization is as an insurance policy to that future eventuality.
- Karawebnetwork 8y agoI live in Québec, Canada and I can't agree enough. First we were a French colony called "Nouvelle-France", then a British colony known as "Province of Lower Canada". Now, it's a province of Canada. It has been recognized by the federal government that the Québécois form a nation within a united Canada (2006). The majority of the people here kept their language (French), the code of law (French civil laws) and the religion (Roman Catholic). Almost everyone speaks and writes English fluidly. The population is mostly bilingual. You do not need to suppress the local language and history of a region in order to live peacefully its population.
- rayiner 8y agoIt's not as efficient as having a single national language. When my mom was growing up in Bangladesh, English was taught in school alongside Bengali, and was used in important official business (e.g. legal opinions of courts were all written in English until 1985). But English wasn't her main language, and to this day, after living in the U.S. for 30 years, she still struggles to communicate complex ideas in English. People will never speak the national language as well as they could if they speak a different, regional language at home. (Any given person might, but many people will not.) And that will impose transaction costs on your society trying to deal with language barriers.
- hkai 8y agoYes, it's more efficient to convert everyone to a single culture and make sure there's no diversity. It's a bit hard to do without violence, but doable. Should we?