Impact of Colonialism on Language Identity

The number one on the to-do list of colonialism is the white bearded people's language

because it takes away their identity, it takes away their meaning, their connection to the land,

connection to the place they come from and then that's a people that you can conquer,

you can tax them, you can make them, degrade them, make them feel like their language

isn't any use, it's not the way forward, it's not progressive and that's

the after effect of colonialism, that's what the fact we still have today, especially down south

you see it that people go to school for 14 years and can't really speak Irish, this is a fact that

happens after colonialism and like that's probably the worst thing they've done to the Irish people

is to make them feel like that there is no value in Irish because it's not valuable in the global

market or in capitalism but hopefully now young people are seeing that there's an intrinsic value

to the language and something that we can't, that can't be taken away from them.