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From: I.G.Batten@ftel.co.uk (Ian G Batten)
Subject: Re: Single European Language
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Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1995 13:51:17 GMT
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In article <3s3sm9$83f@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>,
Edmund Grimley-Evans <etg10@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> I think English should in most cases not be treated as a foreign
> language in Wales (i.e. teach English and perhaps a few other subjects
> in English even in Welsh-speaking schools), but let the decision be
> made locally, not in London or Brussels.

This, of course, is an interesting thesis.  I have heard it suggested by
the hard left that teaching people resident in the United Kingdom to use
English as anything other than their first language was deeply racist.
Under the guide of self-determination, you are ensuring that a minority
who currently is disempowered is firther disempowered by lack of
linguistic skill.  It may be illegal to refuse to employ someone becuase
they are Asian; it is --- and quite rightly --- not illegal to refuse to
employ them because they are unable to communicate.

ian
