why some body wants to hide his matern language, and says that is an other?
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bonita pregunta viniendo de una colombiana. ya veras porqué. En principio, si no eres emigrante ocultas o dejas de hablar tu lengua por motivos politicos o economicos. Hay lenguas que llevan la marca de prestigio y otras de desprestigio. En america latina, cuantos nativos estan avergonzados de ser indios y piensan que hay que hablar español (que es castellano, el español no existe, al menos en España) para ser alguien?. Si tu gobierno considera que tu lengua, que se habla y hablaba en tu pais antes que otra lengua, es una infralengua, hara todo lo posible para que desaparezca. Si quien tiene el dinero no quiere hablar tu lengua nunca la hablara. etc, etc. Si eres emigrante, necesitas hablar otra lengua y depende de tus prejuicios o los de la sociedad a la que vas intentaras ocultarla mas o menos. En America, la historia es interesante con una ideologia importada de la peninsula en la que la diversidad es anatema. Que bonito es ver a los Morales, Chavez y otros hablar de indigenismo y seguir hablando "español", cuando en India, Africa y Asia lo primero que hicieron traas la independencia es devolver la lengua del pais a la normalidad politica. En sudamerica los conceptos de "latino" y "la raza" son fuertes marcas que seguir. Es curioso, porque en Europa ninguna lengua proveniente del latin se autoploclama latina. sino romance ( porque para diferenciarse del latin usan el nombre de las primeras composiciones literarias que utilizaron, el romance). Yo odio el concepto "latino" porque lo usan los que no quieren ser "indios" y suelen ser los peores, gentes de las ciudades que intentan dar la imagen de gente "civilizada" y son mas racistas que el kkk mas pintado. Es un tema complicado y complejo, pero si eres "indigena" espero que ames tu lengua porque son justamente las lenguas amerindias las que guardan todavia grandes secretos sobre la evolucion linguistica de los humanos y seria una pena que nunca supieramos que guardan en su interior.
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People just want to be english native speakers and they "change" their native language. But it is just a pretendence and people must not forget about their native language because it is more valueable for them than english or any other languages. We must firstly love our native language, if not - we will not love other languages properly, it will be false feeling only.
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hello maria, long time no see!
anyway, i noticed more users here tend to hide their identity especially those who are trying to ask your e-mail address and send you a bunch of crap! But maybe, their just new here in italki and haven't noticed the importance of it yet.
chat to you soon!
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that, my dear, is called freedom of choice
in some cases the change inevitable, just like in panda's and rodriguez's case.
some even have sex change! language change is nothing compared to that!
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"why would somebody want to hide his/her mother language?"
i can see this occuring in any instances of immigration or acculturation.
if you ever have the chance to read richard rodriguez's book, hunger of memory, he told how he lost his spanish because his immigrant parents started speaking english at home so the children's english could improve.
for me, i grew up speaking chinese until kindergarten but quickly lost my chinese when i began going to school. because of academia, my native language became english. i don't mean to hide my mother language as chinese. but my chinese is horrible, and i'd feel ashamed to call it my mother language. therefore, i consider english my native language. and if we want to get political, i am a native ESL student (nobody believes me though), because english is my second language although it is the main language i use in life.
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