Albert Einstein 2019: Read the excerpt taken from an interview published to coincide with the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples

Albert Einstein 2019: Read the excerpt taken from an interview published to coincide with the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Pe...

Albert Einstein 2019: Read the excerpt taken from an interview published to coincide with the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples.

Al Jazeera: Why are indigenous languages dying?
Fiona Watson: One way languages are being lost is quite simply through the massacre of tribal peoples; we are seeing the extinction of people and their languages in our time. Another reason is forced schooling and development; for example, we have the people like the Bushmen in Southern Africa, who in the last two centuries have had their land stolen from them and been forced in countries like Botswana into resettlement camps where the mainstream population, through racism and ignorance, say their way of life is backwards and primitive.

People are taken from their communities and put into schools – places like Canada, the United States and Australia have already undergone this – and that’s where they are taught that everything about their identity, culture and language is wrong. There’s a colonial mentality, where a national language is forced on them. The ultimate human right for anyone is self-determination, it’s the right to decide how you wish to live. Language is a vital part of that.

(David Child. www.aljazeera.com, 09.08.2018. Adapted.)

Answer the following questions, in Portuguese.

a) Which phenomenon is the main theme in this fragment of the interview? Identify, in the first paragraph of Fiona Watson’s answer, one of the reasons why such phenomenon takes place.

b) The interviewee refers to a common experience, shared by different peoples around the world. Describe this experience and mention its consequences on the people affected.

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RESOLUÇÃO:
a) A extinção das línguas indígenas é o fenômeno mencionado. Segundo Fiona Watson, vários são os motivos entre os quais podemos citar: a obrigatoriedade da escolaridade, o massacre de tribos indígenas, o racismo e a ignorância.

b) As pessoas são retiradas de suas comunidades e colocadas em escolas onde aprendem que tudo relacionado à sua identidade, cultura e língua é errado. A partir do momento em que os indígenas perdem seu idioma nativo, perdem o mais importante direito humano – o livre arbítrio.

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