• Kowowow@lemmy.ca
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    5 days ago

    Would be interesting to see how many tourists it would take to gaslight native language speakers they don’t speak their onw language

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      5 days ago

      This is America, and we speak English.

      It really shows with how many of our words were borrowed from indigenous languages.

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          Practically none, except for place-names.

          That’s the joke.

          One, we speak English, the language of our colonizer.

          Two, we displaced and destroyed countless indigenous languages.

          Three, we (not all of us and not me personally…but certain people) get upset when people speak Spanish or any language other than English here. Spanish hate is particularly ironic in Texas since that used to be Mexico and a Spanish colony before that (and indigenous, before that).

          Four, our glorious leader recently signed an executive order specifying English as our official language.