"The defendant (Euskal Herriko (Laborantza Ganbera) takes refuge in a foreign language." So says the prosecutor. The defendant is Basque. The foreign language is Euskara. The where they have committed the alleged crime is Euskal Herria, the people who speak Euskera. The prosecutor is French, owner of one of the most powerful and widespread languages \u200b\u200bin the world.
The English Popular Party is complaining because parents of the Basque Autonomous Community are determined that their children are enrolled in school in Euskera, and conclude that there must be some blackmail, any pressure or some cosmic trick for this to happen. How can a citizen of the English state wants their children to learn Euskera?
Throughout my life I have learned several languages, and my only regret is not having learned a lot more. "Nothing human is alien to me," said Terence more than two thousand years. And is there anything more humane than the language? Some of the language are woven ideas, form societies, peoples. Learn a language and understand that society.
Never crossed my imagination be described as a foreign language they know, and those who do not know are my absence, my ignorance and I hope one day be mine, when learning.
How can such ignorance, such a lack of respect, people who are supposed to take care of public welfare (or at least that is what they pay)?
I can only think of two reasons: fear and hatred. Interestingly, these same people melt when their taste buds speak English, when, from their point of view, is a language other threat to their beloved French English due to its rising political and economic. What threat is Euskera, humble language, which only aims to be spoken by people of your country? Yes, there seems to be a threat to the chauvinism of the grandeur of France and the sacred unity of Spain. Ignorance, arrogance and canyons. Is there a more dangerous combination?
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