Linguistic Apartheid notes

Laws Should Restrict Housing for Non-Gaelic Speakers:
• Preserve language→preserve culture. Packed together better use of language. Language is part of the culture, Sapir –Whorf→linguistic determination→if not would eliminate Irish view point
• We were here 1st, Gaelic was the original language
• NOT Racism→You don’t have to live in that part of Ireland
• Might motivate to learn the language
• Good way to keep in touch with the roots, their old culture, even while time moves on→keeps TRADITION (cultural implications)
• You can learn the language
• We can’t let it die





Linguistic Apartheid:
• Discrimination→ Human Right’s implication’s→what would the EU say?
• Elitist
• Living in the past→”bog people”→JOIN the 21st Century
• Discourages improvements/knowledge and narrows the horizons
• Economic implications (we’ll go somewhere else)
• Isolate even more because people won’t want to learn the language just to live there.
• No one speaks it
• We can’t save every language
• Let parents deal with it