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Colonisation mindset: destroy all other cultures

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A few years ago I was discussing with three or four colleagues (all Italians, and all CS, needless to say) and they were telling me how one of the goals of the EU is or should be replacing all national languages with English, and that the preservation of endangered languages is a waste of money.

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ

@olivia.science

That's so Italian fascist. How long did it take to create Italian? Oh, no, not one of the last standardised languages of the European powers in the 20th century. 🫠

19/10/26, 5:03 am0 reposts6 likes

Antonio E. Porreca 🐳

@aeporreca.org

Except that literal fascists cared (in their own twisted way, of course) or pretended to care about the Italian language and Italian culture.

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ

@olivia.science

This is the next evolution of their death cult. True.

Antonio E. Porreca 🐳

@aeporreca.org

(Don’t get me started on the number of dying regional languages in Italy. Or in France while we’re at it.)

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ

@olivia.science

Coloniser mindset requires everybody to have 1) no languages separate from the state's and 2) to centrally control language. As a speaker of a language we were not allowed to use in school: massive solidarity.

Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦

@theriotnrrd.eurosky.social

The local dialect here is dying in front of our eyes. The grandparents speak it, my generation understands it, and our kids have no idea. That’s in the city; up in the hills it hangs on a bit better, and there is a definite class divide too. Sad to see it happen.