Transcript · English → Spanish

Impact of Colonialism on Language Identity

La prioridad número uno en la lista de tareas del colonialismo es el idioma de la gente de barba blanca

porque les quita su identidad, les quita su significado, su conexión con la tierra,

la conexión con el lugar de donde vienen, y entonces ese es un pueblo al que puedes conquistar,

puedes cobrarles impuestos, puedes obligarlos, degradarlos, hacerles sentir que su idioma

no sirve para nada, no es el camino a seguir, no es progresista, y esa es

la secuela del colonialismo, esa es la realidad que aún tenemos hoy, especialmente en el sur,

se ve que la gente va a la escuela durante 14 años y no puede hablar irlandés, este es un hecho que

ocurre después del colonialismo y eso es probablemente lo peor que le han hecho al pueblo irlandés

es hacerles sentir que el irlandés no tiene valor porque no es valioso en el mercado

global o en el capitalismo, pero ojalá ahora los jóvenes vean que hay un valor intrínseco

de la lengua y algo que no podemos, que no se les puede quitar.

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Original transcript (English)

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.

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