Monday, 4 November 2013

doomed to crash...

Having Driver’s tests only in English. Rubbish. States such as Missouri and Georgia have adopted this heinous policy, which is only continuing to increase discrimination and murder identity.  Not being able to test for a rightly deserved and necessary transportation mechanism in the language which you feel more comfortable with makes no sense. 59% of Hispanics can speak English fluently and the other 41% is perfectly capable of understanding a “Stop” sign on the street, so why continue to burn and prejudice these people’s identities. Huge discrimination aspects show up here too. So you cannot drive if you do not speak English or perfect English. Ouch. What a way to make minorities feel inferior. Everyone has the right to drive. And if you don’t care at all about feelings look at the practical side. What will provide better results?

Scenario 1:
Allowing people to perform the test in the language they feel more comfortable with and understand better.

Scenario 2:

Forcing people to detach from their base cultural language, which they feel more comfortable responding in to take the test in English.

Come on; don’t crack your head too hard on this one.

Point is, language planning can reinforce but also detain identities, and sometimes give a negative outcome. There is no point in isolating people from their base cultural language when they are getting along with English perfectly well. Other cultures cannot be forcefully molded to become all-perfect Americans. I bet you wouldn’t like it if it were the other way around.





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