Tackling linguistic discrimination
Between September and December 2023, Babylonia collected questions from parents regarding their children's language development. This article aims to answer the following questions: • It is 2024: why does our society still discriminate so strongly against certain languages and dialects? A Tig...
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Between September and December 2023, Babylonia collected questions from parents regarding their children's language development. This article aims to answer the following questions:
• It is 2024: why does our society still discriminate so strongly against certain languages and dialects? A Tigrinya-speaking child receives little appreciation from educational institutions compared to an English-speaking child. What are we still doing wrong? Who is most responsible for this inequality? How could these asymmetries be reduced as soon as possible? Why are decision-makers not interested in changing this?
• People always say that we should cultivate children's native/first languages. However, our family language is not welcome at school as part of the regular timetable, i.e., it is not promoted – isn't this institutional discrimination? Why is this not (yet) being discussed in Switzerland? Is linguicism not an issue?
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| spelling | doaj-art-38ea5e79e7724c5c970d73a28aac6e562025-08-20T02:49:56ZdeuAssociation Babylonia SwitzerlandBabylonia1420-00072673-64542024-12-013Tackling linguistic discriminationRuth Kircher0European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI) Between September and December 2023, Babylonia collected questions from parents regarding their children's language development. This article aims to answer the following questions: • It is 2024: why does our society still discriminate so strongly against certain languages and dialects? A Tigrinya-speaking child receives little appreciation from educational institutions compared to an English-speaking child. What are we still doing wrong? Who is most responsible for this inequality? How could these asymmetries be reduced as soon as possible? Why are decision-makers not interested in changing this? • People always say that we should cultivate children's native/first languages. However, our family language is not welcome at school as part of the regular timetable, i.e., it is not promoted – isn't this institutional discrimination? Why is this not (yet) being discussed in Switzerland? Is linguicism not an issue? https://babylonia.online/index.php/babylonia/article/view/431minority languagesheritage languagesmultilingual developmentlanguage attitudeslinguistic discrimination |
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| title | Tackling linguistic discrimination |
| title_full | Tackling linguistic discrimination |
| title_fullStr | Tackling linguistic discrimination |
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| title_short | Tackling linguistic discrimination |
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| topic | minority languages heritage languages multilingual development language attitudes linguistic discrimination |
| url | https://babylonia.online/index.php/babylonia/article/view/431 |
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