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 get rid of.