Well they certainly shouldn't be banning it, as some Welsh nationalists want to do!
Tell me that, as a rational, critical scholar, you're not uncomfortable with some of the reams of invented crap that get passed off as Celtic "heritage"--particular in this country, where most people's direct connexions to the Celtic Fringe are so tenuous that they'll believe nearly anything soi-disant "experts" tell them. Or that fact that, for many Americans, part of getting in touch with their Irish roots consisted of donating money to a murderous terrorist organisation.
I don't want to see endangered languages die off any more than you do, but I wish there were means of saving them that weren't tarred with the pernicious brush of nationalism.
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Date: 2005-04-08 02:00 pm (UTC)Tell me that, as a rational, critical scholar, you're not uncomfortable with some of the reams of invented crap that get passed off as Celtic "heritage"--particular in this country, where most people's direct connexions to the Celtic Fringe are so tenuous that they'll believe nearly anything soi-disant "experts" tell them. Or that fact that, for many Americans, part of getting in touch with their Irish roots consisted of donating money to a murderous terrorist organisation.
I don't want to see endangered languages die off any more than you do, but I wish there were means of saving them that weren't tarred with the pernicious brush of nationalism.