#indegenous languages

[defensefilms]

Cancellation Of Premier League Fixtures Proves We Never Left The Dark Ages

“The only good things to ever come out of England, are Drill Music and Premier League Football”

The passing of the queen of England was like a silent fart in a gust of wind as far as I’m concerned, you know, worrying about the queen would be like wondering if the suns gonna come up.

The great hypocrisy that needs discussed, is how a country like England, successullfy “exported” their culture and ideology to the rest of the world, all while mocking how backward those in 3rd world countries are, yet today, still feels the need to treat thier stupid monarchs with reverence.

I mean, leave it to me to be the one to point out how backwards, ignorant, uneducated, tone deaf and out of step with the times this really is.

So  your oldest living monarch dies, and you think the best response is to ensure her death is mourned by these guys..........

If there’s one thing I could assure you of, it’s that the queen of England would never associate herself with the average English football fan.

Never in a million years.

I can almost assure the English royal family views the average English football fan and the rest of the tax paying public, as little more than gum under thier sneakers, you know what I mean?

And I’m dead serious.

It’s one thing for you to cancel the greatest past time of all modern times in the form of a 10-day premier league break, but you better not dare to touch that Champions League schedule.

Manchester City, Rangers, Liverpool, Chelsea, Celtic and Tottenham Hostpur are all expected to represent thier respective leagues in Europe during midweek, and should they fail to do so, it would not only cause a scheduling conflict due to the World Cup being played in December, but it would put on display the kind of bullheadedness that resulted in Brexit. 

And Brexit was a roaring success wasn’t it?

You may wonder why Ol’ Defense Films seems to have an extra bit of venom towards your fallen monarch, and I’d only be happy to inform you mother*****r.

Anyone that has grown up in a Commowealth country, or a former English colony, will tell you that the tone and language that I’m using in this article, is the most British thing on earth.

Sarcasm, crassness, a lack of empathy, the constant dehumanization of others as a way to elevate and relieve your own very frail sense of superiority. These things are as English as tea and biscuits.

Talking to people in this way, is England’s greatest contribution to global society. The other is the art of stealing natural resources from indegenous people.

Long story short, the only good things that ever came out of England, are Drill Music and Premier League football.

Now piss off!!

#sports #football #queen elizabeth #fuck the queen #colonialism #premier league #drill music #kenya

[a-wild-person]

I watched Avatar today. Is it a crime that I had never watched it before? Probably. But unexpectedly, it was incredible. It's absolutely gorgeous. Scenery-wise. It's just, waw. I have a good amount of screenshots.

The story is alright, you see everything coming and it goes where it's supposed to go. It does its job, it's not something incredible nor original for a plot (or maybe it was, when it came out, but I don't know how it was back then), stricly speaking of plot points. Introduces main character, problem, love interest, training part, becomes the leader, "is chosen by Eiwa", rides the biggest wyvern or whatever they are called. Ends well, besides the major character death.

However, the world-building is out of this world. I don't know if it's a new language they simply just created for the film, but a language like. You clearly see it's inspired by indegenous tribes or something with a close relationship with nature, and they rolled with that concept as far as they could go. They can just connect to the Eiwa Wi-Fi. The planet probably is somewhat alive, and everything on there is part of a brain, that's my theory at least. The concept is crazy to think about. I almost wished they were more radically different than humans, because they really look like long blue humans you know. The animals are also very much inspired by animals, especially the panther one.

The most-obvious point: just gorgeous. I have screenshots. Too many. Their faces especially, in blue or purple light is chief's kiss! It's just eye-candy by this point. I'm very glad I finally watched it. I wish we could have been introduced to the entire thing with a different formula of plot points, but at the same time I'm not sure what I would have seen instead. I wish they were a little bit more different than humans too, even mentally. They feel more like a blue-skined human tribe than an alien one if you know what I mean.

Great film anyway. Do not regret finally watching.

#avatar movie

[bongboyblog]

Dear Indians, if you are wounded by a knife, you aren't supposed to stab yourself a second time to heal the first gash. You should be treating the wound not hurting yourself more.

Just because you have been colonised by the British in the past and have been anglicised, doesn't mean you should let yourself get culturally colonised for a second time by the Hindustanis (and by that I mean north India, especially the Hindi-belt). Let Hindi remain where it belongs, let the North Indians take pride in it. Stick to your native tongue and traditions, even the wounds of the first attack will be healed. But if you keep wounding your culture with non-indigenous influences, you will be crippled beyond rescue. Only God can save you then.

We might be free politically but our minds are still those of colonised people. If we are to be truly independent, truly free, we must take pride in our native identities. We need a new freedom struggle, freedom from the shackles of our own inferiority complexes.

জয় বাংলা, জয় হিন্দ!

- a fellow Indian 🇮🇳

#india #indian #indegenous languages #native languages #language politics #language imposition #stop hindi imposition #hindi imposition #article 351 #hindi #हिंदी #মাতৃভাষা #রাষ্ট্রভাষা #national language #government of india #bengali #langblr #lingblr #desi #desiblr

[normalweirdoboy]

A short conversation with my cousin on Hindi imposition and the need for preservation of linguistic diversity.

YT link

#normalweirdoboy #india #indian #languages #indegenous languages #mother tongue #stop hindi imposition #hindi imposition #hindi #bengali #punjabi #tamil #manipuri #santhali #telegu #malayalam #indian languages #langblr #desi #conversation #linguistics #politics #native rights #resistance #asian #article 351 #national language #official language #inequality

[emmagoldman42]

"It’s also about wellness. We’ve been given religious ceremonies procedures and ways to process life and process grief and loss, and to support ourselves spiritually, and we only practice that in Ojibwe language. We only communicate to our powers that be in [Ojibwe] because that’s the language that they gave us. And so, unlike some other communities who have adapted and changed to use English in some of those spaces, we haven’t, so we have a limited amount of people who can do those talks. The goal is to provide access and opportunity for community members to grow spiritually through those ceremonies that we’ve been given."

#ojibwe #indegenous #language #colonialism

[ojibwe-word-of-the-day]

bineshiinh - bird

#ojibwe #ojibwa #native #native american #ndn tumblr #ndn #indegenous #langblog #langblr #language #day thirty one

[anacttohidetheirenvy]

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#like this is very much a like me getting stressed abt precision of language type thing #this is like a weird thing to get vaguely stressed abt but like the term bipoc stresses me oht #bc half the time i see it mean black and indegenous poc #and the other half i see it mean black indigenous and poc #and like the first is much more #not restrictive but likw a smaller subset than the second #and so its kinda super fucking useless as an acronym #bc either u mean all poc or a very specific subset of poc #and bc its used for both u cant tell which someones using it for #idk #and both uses have their merits but the placement of the and completely changes the meaning so As An Acronym its useless #even tho the point of each ue is super important

[dollyreblogs]

Okay people who say "Oh, I'm THIS percent Native American" get on my nerves so much.

Real talk: Yes, there is a good chance you are Native or of Native descent because of THE SLAVERY AND ASSIMILATION OF THE INDEGENOUS PEOPLE but the thing is, being a little percent of native on your european side od the family doesn't make you native. You didn't grow up with the culture, you didn't grow up with the beliefs, you didn't grow up with the language.

Some people really will take an ancestry test and be like: "Oh, well I'm this percentage of native american so-" and it frustrates me to no end, especially when they get into the cultural appropriation shit.

#Some dude in class was bragging about how he was native and how he'd 'curse' or send 'forest spirits' to curse someone he was arguing with #And was all: Oh well just wait once I start speaking MY REAL language #And I told him I was native too and gave him a quick fact check and he was all: Um actually I'm 25% native so

[fandomshatepeopleofcolor]

Does anyone know where to find a comprehensive list of "cryptids" that are actually Native American spirits? Also is Mothman a cryptid?

Recently I've been looking at this website called native-langauges.org, they describe themselves as a non-profit focused on preserving Native American languages.

I'm not sure how comprehensive the list is, but they have a list of different spirits and spirit stories that I've been looking through one by one.

I feel like that's a decent place to start, that's where I'm starting anyway. Although, I think it only is relevant for Native American cultures.

If anyone has a better resource, ideally authored by Native/ Indegenous people then please share.

Mod TZ

#mod tz #anonymous #fhpocasks #feel like for a blog about racism in media #learning about spirits and beliefs is the best place to start #since that's usually the aspects of the culture you see within media representations

[her-culture]

2021 and the Rise of Shopping BIPOC, LGBTQI+, Small, and Womxn-Owned

Now more than ever, a collective way of life has been prioritized: shopping from small businesses, particularly those owned by the marginalized. The reason? A mix of a few things, like that of the coronavirus pandemic putting small businesses in every industry in an increasingly vulnerable spot, the rising importance of the Black Lives Matter movement, and the collective awareness of how capitalism has contributed to the downfall of so many communities.

When the pandemic hit, a lot of folks were down on their luck financially. They needed whatever avenue of income they could find to help keep them on their feet, which resulted in them opening small businesses selling their art, jewelry, and more. Shopping small and dining locally was also one of the main efforts done by the collective to ensure community staples wouldn’t have to shut down due to the lack of revenue and financial support throughout the pandemic. 

During the height of BLM last summer, one of the ways that folks rallied together to give aid and support to different mutual aid funds, bail funds, and BLM funds was by selling homemade items and giving 100% of the proceeds to these different organizations. With this, there have been threads on Twitter and infographics on Instagram sharing different black-owned small businesses so that folks could directly support the black community.

It’s interesting to see how the rise of social media networks helped pave the way for this, too. Instagram and Facebook both have sections where anyone can sell their products - Facebook marketplace has everything from new and used cars, clothing, furniture, jewelry, and so much more. Instagram (though widely criticised) has updated their formatting so that anyone who uses their platform to sell items gets boosted in ads, and their shopping section is easier to find. Instagram is most accessible for businesses because they don’t charge a service fee like other sites (Etsy, Shopify, etc.) - 100% of the profits goes right back to the shop owner.

Social media sites like TikTok and Twitter have assisted this wave as well. “It costs $0 to retweet my art/business” tweets go viral almost daily, and TikTok itself is filled with trends small businesses love to use to help boost their brand on the algorithm. More recently, brands of all kinds started doing “pack an order with me” TikToks to add a more personalized feel to their business, where consumers get excited to see if their order is one of the ones that gets packaged on the ForYouPage.

Shopping small and from the folks who could use the support most is an incredible way of how community works. It directly supports the dreams and efforts of the folks who put their all into what they make. If it is possible for you, I encourage you to try to shop small and from BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color), LGBTQI+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and more), and womxn-owned spots instead of larger corporations. Aiding in the journeys of the folks who took a chance on themselves and started their small business could change everything for them - every dollar could unlock a world of chance.

For those who are interested, here’s a list of a few small businesses (organized by business type) that you can check out and support!

Lifestyle:

Nguyen Coffee Supply - This Vietnamese coffee company was founded by Sahra Nguyen, a first-generation Vietnamese-American who set out to teach about the true quality and production of coffee beans in Vietnam. Partnering with a fourth-generation farmer in Central Valley back in Vietnam, they provide ethically sourced coffee beans to folks worldwide. To purchase Nguyen Coffee or learn more about their efforts, you can shop at https://nguyencoffeesupply.com/ and visit their social media sites @nguyencoffeesupply.

Hungry Bunny - A black, womxn-owned business, this virtual donut shop started in March 2020 as a result of the coronavirus pandemic by Khloe Hines. All products are vegan and cruelty free, not using any dairy, eggs, or yeast! To place orders visit their website https://www.hungrybunnyict.com/ and support their social media @hungrybunny.

Hood Herbalism - A center for learning, this community herbal education project is perfect for BIPOC folks wanting to learn about the benefits of herbalism and how to incorporate it into their lives. Courses range from the basics of herbalism to herbal medicine works for birth support. They offer online courses with payment plans, accommodations, and scholarship funds to support those in need! This project space is intended for BIPOC folks, as herbal schools are predominantly white. To donate to their project or enroll in classes, visit https://hoodherbalism.com/ and follow their social media at @hoodherbalism.

Indigescuela - This BIPOC-led space is dedicated to teaching womxn and folks about intentional healing through the avenues of holistic sexual health, womb health, and traditional healing. Using the knowledge and practices of herbalism, Mexican folk healing, and Mesoamerican medicine, Panquetzani (also the foundress of Indigemama: Ancestral Healing) leads students to finding the healing answers they need to lead as their best selves. The courses range in topics from lifelong self-womb care and womb wellness. To enroll in the online distance courses, head to https://indigescuela.com/ and support their social media at @indigescuela.

Bookstores:

Nā Mea Hawai’i - Meaning all things to do with Hawai’i, Native Books is a space created to share Hawaiian culture through education. If you are based in Hawai’i, or have the opportunity to visit post-pandemic, this is definitely a place to stop by! They support local artisans of all kinds in efforts to uplift their community and all that the Islands have to offer. They have dedicated their space to sharing this knowledge, education, and experiences to all who stop by, virtually and in-person. Shop their website https://www.nativebookshawaii.org/ and follow them @na_mea_hawaii.

Raven Reads - This bookstore is indigenous and womxn-owned, which began as an effort to share history and inspire folks as a result of what residential schools did to the indegnous communities in Canada, where languages and ways of life were washed away over the years. They offer collection boxes for children and adults, where each season a curated box will be sent to you filled with Indegenous works. To shop, support, and learn more, their website is https://ravenreads.org/ and their social media is @raven_reads.

Strong Nations - The online retailer is centered around idigenous literature and art, where their products range from children’s toys to classroom materials and, of course, literature. They are also a publishing house, offering a range of services for those interested. They also offer a wide variety of bundles in different categories! Each item on their shop has a badge on it to signify if it is indegnous art, a Canadian product, or indegnous text. If you are looking for indenous literature or works of different kinds, materials for your classroom, and more, stop by https://www.strongnations.com/ or @strong_nations.

Marcus Books - The first black-owned bookstore in the nation, Marcus Books is filled with history and the desire to educate and make space for black folks and all allies. Their goals of using literature to educate and unite communities has served folks in and around the San Francisco Bay Area (based in Oakland, CA) and nationwide through their online store. They have books for all ages in every genre by an array of black and latinx authors. To support, their website is https://bookshop.org/shop/marcusbooks or visit their social media @marcus.books.

Loving Me Books - A black and womxn-owned shop, Angela Nesbitt created this online bookstore to promote self-love amongst children of all races and backgrounds. Books are available for all age ranges and in a variety of languages! They also sell children’s clothing and accessories. There is a section for adult books, as well! Check out https://www.lovingmebooks.com/ and @lovemebooks for your next book.

Skincare:

Alma Bella - Meaning “beautiful soul” in Spanish, this womxn-owned skincare business is the epitome of self care with a cause. Creator Hannah Bahls, based in Washington state, handmakes this heavenly coco cream and redistributes 100% of the net profit to different BIPOC-led social justice funds. With more products coming soon, they prioritize organic, ethically sourced and traded, and natural ingredients. Each month, she chooses a new organization to give the proceeds to. To learn more about Alma Bella, their product and mission, head over to https://alma-bella.square.site/ or their Instagram @almabellanourish to learn more about how they emphasize self and community care.

HanaHana Beauty - Sustainable, clean beauty that uplifts womxn of color. All products are made with natural ingredients and oils, like fair-trade shea butter. They source their shea butter from the Katariga Women’s Shea Cooperative in Ghana. The black and womxn-owned shop includes body butters, bars, lip balms, and exfoliating cleansers. To buy, head to their site https://hanahanabeauty.com/ and follow at @hanahana_beauty.

BrownSugga Beauty - Black owned, vegan beauty for all skin types. Offering a variety of products from sugar scrubs to oil serums, body butters and soap bars, the New Orleans based online business is your one-stop-shop for healing and maintaining beautiful, healthy skin. Shop now at https://brownsuggabeautycompany.com/ and follow them at @brownsuggabeauty_.

Haípažaža pĥežúta - Meaning “medicine soap” in Lakota, this indegnous-owned skin care from Lakota folks sells soaps and herbal products nationwide. They utilize organic ingredients harvested from the homelands as well as fair-trade ingredients from across the world to create healthy, intentional products. The products range from soaps, shampoos, rubs, perfumes, bath bombs, scrubs, and more. (They even offer refills of some of these products)! To purchase, find them at https://www.haipazazaphezuta.com/ and @haipazaza.

Beauty:

Live Tinted - Founded by Deepica Mutlaya, Live Tinted is a brand dedicated to inclusion and diversity within the beauty industry. They use their platform to highlight multicultural beauty - giving space to voices and stories of those often underrepresented in the industry. Their products range from ethically sourced merchandise, huesticks, and gorgeous illuminators. Take a peek for yourself at https://www.livetinted.com/ and @livetinted on their different social media platforms.

Sahi Cosmetics - This small, family-owned cosmetics company has been taking the beauty industry by storm. Founder Shelly Sahi started Sahi cosmetics as a way to change the beauty standards we have become accustomed to after growing up feeling like her Indian skin wasn’t beautiful enough and always had trouble finding products that matched her complexion. Committed to their clean beauty promise, all of their products are cruelty and paraben free, with vegan friendly ingredients. An array of makeup and innovative products and ideas that will surely leave you obsessed! They also offer some clothing merchandise as well. Check them out at select retailers, their website https://sahicosmetics.com/ and their social media @sahicosmetics.

Queltzin Cosmetics - An indegenous-owned beauty brand specializing in fake lashes, all of their products are named after Aztec gods and goddesses as well as Nahuatl words to honor and educate folks about their indegenous heritage. Aside from lashes and lash tools, they offer some apparel and makeup accessories and tools, as well. Shop at https://queltzincosmetics.com/ and visit them at @queltzincosmetics.

Sweet Street Cosmetics - A Latina/womxn-owned cosmetics company that honors the around-the-way aesthetic. This brand was built by Natalia Durazo and LaLa Romero, who also co-founded the clothing company Bella Doña. their brand honors the beauty strides made by womxn of color and celebrates all the uniqueness and individuality that comes with it. Their products include a highly praised liquid liner, lip duos, eyeshadows, and lashes. Shop now at https://www.sweetstreetcosmetics.com/ and follow them @sweetstreetcosmetics.

Clothing: 

Wasi Clothing - A Quechuan word meaning “hope,” Wasi is a brown-owned Bolivian-American clothing company founded and run completely by Vanessa Acosta. This business is dedicated to ethical and sustainable products and processes, as well as diverse representation in the fashion world. Their products are unique and there truly is something for everyone here, as their shop includes everything from clothing to accessories to accessories and prints! You can shop their website at https://wasiclothing.com/ and follow at @wasiclothing.

OXDX Clothing - Diné owned label, this indegnous brand offers merchandise to represent Native peoples and honor their experiences. Their mission includes preserving culture to art, clothing, creative content and storytelling. Their shop has unique pieces of clothing, art, and stickers. Shop at https://www.oxdxclothing.com/ and support them at @oxdxclothing.

Ginew - That Native-owned denim line honors the founders’ Ojibwe, Oneida, & Mohican heritage through the materials and concepts utilized to create their products. Their shop ranges from denim products (jackets, jeans, etc.) as well as unique jewelry, bandanas, and more. Shop all things Ginew on their website https://ginewusa.com/ and follow at @ginew_usa.

Art: 

Hafandhaf - This Pakistani-born and Detroit raised artist uses her South Asian and Muslim roots to create art that reflexts her experinces and the life around her. She uses her background studying the Quran and Arabic and incorporates it into her work. She offers commissions, as well as prints. Many of her pieces were turned into other merchandise, like clothing, mugs, stickers, and accessories. To shop, visit https://hafandhaf.com/ and follow their social media @hafandhaf.

Adinas Doodles - Kichwa artist Adina Farinango creates Kichwa diasporic art. In hopes to heal and reclaim her Kichwa roots and her identity as an idigenous womxn, her art is a form of resistance. Her one of a kind art is available in prints, stickers, and on totes! Shop https://www.adinafarinango.com/ and follow @adinasdoodles.

Accessories: 

BRWNGRLZ - The Pinay-owned jewelry company specializes in laser cut pieces that represent and honor Pilipinx heritage and brown pride. These unique, astounding pieces are only found at BRWNGRLZ. This space honors the stories of Pilpinx-identify folks while uplifting the voices of BIPOC folks everywhere. To support and shop, visit www.brwngrlz.com/ and follow at @brwngrlz.

Customized by Angelisa - Polynesian-owned customizable shop that does everything from trays to accessories! This shop is perfect for customized gifts and pieces for your space! Angelisa’s shop has rolling and coffee trays, resin jewelry, keychains, tumblers, and music player plaques. To shop and customize your own pieces, head to https://www.etsy.com/shop/customizedbyangelisa/ and @cbangelisa.

Spirituality:

Stari Agency - Run by Yakari Gabriel, Stari Agency is an Afro-Latina business regarding all things astrology. Yakari offers birth chart readings, transit readings, and follow ups. She aims to help you heal and learn more about you as you navigate your life’s journey. To book and learn more about these services, you can visit https://stariagency.com/ and @stariagency.

The Woke Mystix - Podcasters and authors Ellen and Imani create space for folks to find themselves in astrology, spirituality, and divinity. This WOC-owned business co-wrote Astrology SOS: An astrological survival guide to life, which releases on March 2, 2021. To listen to their podcast and learn more about their work, check out https://www.thewokemystix.com/ and @thewokemystix.

Dian Tala Crystals - This Filipinx-womxn owned crystal shop was created in hopes of offering affordable and accessible means of crystals and their healing properties. In efforts to offer exploration into intuition and personal guidance, this shop holds a variety uniquely cut crystals while teaching followers the properties of each. All funds go directly to the owner’s tuition, as well as direct relief funds to their family’s provinces when the recent typhoon hit the Philippines. To shop and support, follow their Instagram shops @diantalacrystals and @diantalasales.

Farial Eliza (she/her) is a twenty-one year old Bay Area native, occupying unceded Chochenyo Ohlone land. She is a writer, poet, creator, storyteller, self-proclaimed healer and educator to the communities she serves.

[studyaesthetick]

Classes I am taking this semester:

Development and Movement of East Asian (woth my fav prof)

Third Year Koreans

Historical Linguistics

Mayan Hieroglyphics

Indegenous Languages of the Americas

#mine #study #me #studying #studyblr #studyaesthetick #classes #uni

[08keisha03]

An insight about THE ART OF COMMUNICATION by Jimmy Nelson

Communication can do a lot of things, it creates great bonds to people, build relationships to others, and as well as being able to express one's feelings towards others, communication doesn't just end from everyword that we give and recieve to others, it is a lot more from what we can imagine.

I can say that Jimmy had a really bad start with his journeys from the cold winter, to the deers, and to the misunderstading that they had with the translator. Communicating requires brief information for us to understand one another, it is important to communicate because if you don't, you assume that this is fhe meaning but it's actually not, just like what happen to Jimmy, he assumed that the translator know that they are going to this village, but the translator thought they where going to this village, and that miscommunication led to a big problem, they where walking for two weeks to reach that village but it was all for nothing. But luckly he was able to communicate but not the usual way of communicating but with gestures and emotions shown by both parties.

The experiences that Jimmy had shared to the audience did not just helped me realize things, it helped me know the true meaning of communication. Yes, communication doesn't just stop from being able to tell information and such, it is a lot more than we can imagine, because when we communicate, we touch peoples lives and they touch yours, with that stay that Jimmy had, he experienced how their life works and that helped him create his book, and was shared to everybody as well as to the other indegeneous community that he was visiting. It made them happy, in a way that even though it is hard for them to communicate becuase of the language barrier that barrier didn't matter because communication can do a lot of things, the gestures and emotions shown by the indegeneous people helped him to communicate with them. And by that, I can say that communication is an Art becuase it creates art is itself, it can be done in many different ways, and can touch peoples lives by just giving a person a genuine smile.

[bongboyblog]

Funny how the West Bengal government gives additional official status to languages like Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi and Telegu, while indegenous languages like Lepcha, Kol, Toto, Surjapuri, Tamang etc remain ignored.

Stop favouring migrants over natives.

#native #west bengal #india #indegenous #indegenous languages #native people #indegenous people #non bengali #non indegenous #tribals #hindi #urdu #telegu #punjabi #bong's bongo #languages #politics #language politics #lepcha #kol #toto #surjapuri #tamang #official language #bengal #পশ্চিমবঙ্গ #government #langblr #migrants #bengali

[normalweirdoboy]

What I think of the Indian Government's decision to make Hindi compulsory in North-Eastern schools:

(Disclaimer: This is not against the policies of any particular political party, ethnicity, or linguistic group. This is just to highlight the naivety of the Government of India and the unfairness of Indian constitution. I believe all the parties in power till date have not done anything at all to prevent this linguistic catastrophe, well, mere compensations at times, maybe.)

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North East India is a culturally sensitive region. It differs from the mainland culturally, racially and historically. Most of the population is tribal and speak a myriad of distinct languages and dialects. It is probably the most culturally diverse area of the country.

Hindi is already an optional subject in many state boards as well as CBSE (Central Board of Secondary Education). Now what the Indian government wants, is to make it compulsory. Which means students will be forced to learn it whether or not they wish to.

Some of you might ask, what's the problem with that? Well, you see... As I mentioned earlier, North East is a sensitive region. Many communities here are already struggling to keep their native culture alive, forceful imposition of Hindi will only make matters worse. Having grown up in the NE, I've had many local acquaintances who either didn't know how to speak their tribal languages or were hardly fluent in them. "I'm not that good at it..." they'd say with a sad smile. And, you know why? Because they were never taught the language. Either they are to pick it up from their parents, or they'll never know it.

Most of these tribal languages are not taught in schools. Even when they are, consider the scenario of migration. Once they leave their native village or town and maybe even settle down in a different part of the same state where the natives hail from some other tribe, they risk losing ties with the language forever. Same goes for intercommunity families where the children end up learning only the link language and not the native ones.

So why isn't the Indian Government helping to preserve these languages instead of promoting and imposing Hindi? I leave it upon you to ponder...

Also...

Reminds me of the 18th century missionaries lmao. Just replace teachers with missionaries and scripts with religion and yeah...

Hindi imposition is no better than what the British did to these people back in the colonial days. It's risking their native cultures and threatening to replace them with something foreign in the name of reforms. Yes, I said 'foreign', because Hindi was never spoken in this region prior to a hundred years or so when Hindi propagation became a thing.

And it's not like there never was a link language in the region. Assamese was the lingua franca for most of North-East facilitating communication between the numerous tribal communities as well as non-tribals. Bengali worked as a link language in Tripura and Barak Valley region of Assam. Nagamese, a pidgin version of Assamese is still spoken as the common language between the different communities inhabiting the state of Nagaland.

What the Indian government is doing, is destroying the old linguistic fabric of society that kept the people connected and replacing it with Hindi. Many languages that historically used the Assamese or Bengali script are turning to Devanagari or the Roman script, thanks to government funding and propaganda (Boro, Khasi, Mising etc.) Old link languages like Nefamese (in Arunachal) have been replaced by Hindi and English.

There are hundreds of local dialects in the region that are currently endangered either due to small population sizes or because the young generation is shifting to more 'economically profitable' languages. There's really not much that the Indian government has done to protect them.

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What they want to destroy. What we need to protect. The map is of course only depicting the unofficial languages, the recognised languages like Assamese, Bengali, Bodo and Manipuri have not been highlighted.

Let us not forget that when one culture threatens to replace another, there's always resistance and this kind of cultural imposition is, in my opinion, one of the factors contributing to the insurgencies and separatist movements in the region. If you make people believe they need to speak a certain language to connect with the nation instead of making them realise that their own culture and language is an integral part of the nation too, well, this is what happens.

There's been opposition and clear voicing of displeasure coming from many tribal and political groups regarding this new education policy but I don't suppose much will change given how deaf our governments have always been.

It's a lost battle, unless we all speak out against it.

*sigh*

- Normalweirdoboy

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Regional Native American cultures, languages, and history should be freely taught to all who live in America. Anyone who wants to assimilate into a tribe (especially the most endangered tribes) should be freely accepted as new members to increase population, and be given fair tribal education regardless of ethnicity, race, gender, or disability.

It’s not any one person’s place to tell the indegenous peoples of Turtle Island how they should manage their communities.

While it’s important to support First Nations in preserving their languages and cultures, the goal of decolonization is to restore Native sovereignty and agency, and that includes who they want to include in their communities.

#asks #anonymous

[thegentlecriticfilmreview]

Fargo!

I am posting my essay on Peggy Blumquist and Hanzee Dent because I got an A+!!! I could not be happier about this grade lol. Fargo is one of my favourite shows and I was so excited when my Women in Pop Culture prof ( this is my favourite prof I have ever) said we could choose our own film/tv to analyze. I am worried that the format won’t upload properly but oh well??  Also fully aware that not everyone will agree with my analysis of Peggy but I truly believe she was a victim of her times!! if anyone reads this I HOPE YOU ENJOY IT. 

An Analysis of Noah Hawley’s Fargo

The words, “This is a true story,” spill across the opening scene of every episode of Noah Hawley’s FX TV show, Fargo. The second season uses this phrase not only to welcome the viewer into the world of Fargo, but also to “reveal that true stories are always subjective stories, which means they are constructed stories” (Redmon, 2016, pg.16). This essay will focus on season two’s Peggy Blomquist, a white, middle-class woman, and Hanzee Dent, an indigenous man. The actions and motivations of both characters are constantly questioned by other characters in the show and the viewer, as the vibe of the season deeply inhabits the dominant hegemony of America in 1979. Peggy and Hanzee’s stories of survival in a world that rejects them prove that there is great power in constructing truth that exists outside of the dominant ideology.

As mentioned above, Fargo operates within a dominantly male and patriarchal lens. From an exterior perspective, Peggy is the perfect model for the male gaze. She is a slim, white, blonde woman, and presents herself in a feminine manner. However, the male gaze is a source of extreme discomfort for Peggy. In fact, the thing she wants most in life is to, “self actualize.” This goal of “self actualizing,” does nothing to tell the viewer what type of person Peggy wants to be, it serves only to let the viewer know that she is someone who struggles daily with her sense of self. Peggy has an impossible time separating herself from her marriage, indicating that she has in some ways internalized the male gaze. John Berger’s  1972 Ways of Seeing, describes this well, “the surveyor of women in herself is male: the surveyed female” (Zeisler, 2008, pg. 7).

 A connection can be made to the conclusions drawn by 1970s American media about women. “The ways in which women were portrayed in the overall narrative, focusing on particular limited dimensions of the characters...were women portrayed as physicians or housewives? Active or passive?” (D’Acci, 2004, pg. 379). Peggy’s lack of a sense of individual self is her driving force in the series, “the relevance of the male gaze here is not in how it manifests but how agents push against and subvert its unconscious influences” (Ritland, 2018, pg 1284). In fact, what is truly at stake for Peggy Blomquist when she hits Rye Gerhardt with her car, is her fantasy identity. 

The scene that deserves the most recognition in Peggy’s story arc is from the season finale, “Palindrome.”  Finally caught and arrested for the hit and run murder of Rye Gerhardt, Peggy attempts to explain herself. “I wanted to choose, be my own me. Not be defined by someone else’s expec-and then that guy. That stupid guy, walked out into the...why’d he have to do that?” The camera angle, when focusing solely on Peggy, is similar to the angle Lou Solverson would see her from his driving mirror. This speech of Peggy’s can instantly be ridiculed, as we see it through Lou’s eyes, particularly when she describes herself as a victim. This is where it is necessary to adopt an oppositional female gaze, “the female gaze refers to work presented from a decidedly female perspective that challenges the patriarchal status quo” (Ritland, 2018, pg. 1284).

Peggy states that she was a victim before Rye Gerhardt ever was, and that Lou would not be able to understand because he is a man. “It’s a lie, okay? That you can do it all. Be a wife and a mother, and this self-made career woman, like there’s thirty-seven hours in a day! And then when you can’t, they say it’s you.” Peggy’s expressions here echo a genuine concern of the constructions presented to women. “In the 1980s, there were TV characters who seemed to be striving for feminist ideals, but for most of them—as it was for women in the real world—it was almost impossible to be feminist superwomen in a world that was still stubbornly unequal” (Zeisler, 2008, pg.13). For Peggy, second wave feminist discourse in the mainstream media had led her to believe she could, “do it all.” When this turned out to be false, Peggy realized that she had betrayed herself by internalizing the male gaze and its, to borrow Susan Douglas’s term, enlightened sexism. “Enlightened sexism is feminist in its outward appearnce (of course you can be or do anything you want) but sexist in its intent (hold on, girls, only up to a certain point)” (Douglas, 2010, pg. 285). Lou halts Peggy in her realizations of America’s hypocrisies surrounding equality. In doing so, he unknowingly proves her suspicions true. “They say it’s you. You’re faulty.. like you’re inferior somehow!”  The female gaze validates Peggy as a victim of the times. What makes this more interesting is how the three other feminist characters in the show, who firmly believe the time of inequality is over, subsequently die at the hands of men. 

One of the most compelling storylines in the show is Hanzee Dent’s. A Native American man, he was adopted by the drug-running Gerhardt family as a child. What is so appealing about Hawley’s depiction of Hanzee is that he seems to truly understand that “representations are mediations- that is, they are formed in the human mind and are human interpretations of some exterior realm” (D’Acci, 2004, pg. 375). In fact, even as we watch Hanzee betray his foster family and destroy their drug empire, the relations between indegenous and white characters in the show is the most believable part of season two. “Audiences are always aware that the version in motion on screen is but one version of some story that belongs to a group of people” (Redmon, 2016, pg.18). The hegemonic, patriarchal Gerhardt family is a screamingly obvious metaphor for the colonizer, which to Hawley’s credit, is why the depictions of indgenous characters in the show are so successful. “Hegemony is the power or dominance that one social group holds over others. This can refer to differences between and among social classes within a nation” (Lull, 2003, pg 61). The best way for him, a white writer, to portray indegenous characters, was to do so through the eyes of European settler families.

The patriarchal, hegemonic narrative of Fargo’s second season actually allows the viewer to occupy the spaces Peggy Blomquist and Hanzee Dent invented for themselves. “In the end, Hawley explicitly establishes what might have always been implied in his assertion that his story is a true story, namely, that his story is an anti-binarist construct that can tolerate alternative arrangements” (Redmon, 2016, pg. 25). Peggy’s refusal to believe that second wave feminism had achieved gender equality is the reason she is the sole feminist character to survive. Hanzee’s decision to forsake the Gerhardt family can be seen as a personal rebellion against colonization, especially considering his last scene, where we hear him speak his native language for the first time in the series. Lastly, Peggy and Hanzee’s recognition that the dominant ideology of the time was not on their side is what inspired their very empowerment.

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