• Rozaŭtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    That’s capitalism’s fault. Poor white kids would face the same issues.

    True, but that’s not what the discussion was about. Black kids are disproportionately poorer than white kids, and that’s because they inherited inequalities from the past, which came about because of slavery and systematic racism.

    It’d be awesome if we can just solve language barriers generally. Before we can do that having a single official language in working situations seems to be not avoidable for productivity

    What you are suggesting is a lingua franca, which is already the norm in multilingual countries. That’s quite different from having a colonial language dominating over the others.

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      1 year ago

      Lingua franca is a language that 2 groups speaking a different language both understand, English is a lingua franca.

      It makes sense to teach in 2 languages when bit percentages of the population speak them, in the case of America teaching native American language would be pointless for the children aside from preventing the language from dying