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WE NEED TO PAY TEACHERS MORE

Repetition repetition repetition

The second half of this feels like the author is just trying to convince herself that she did the right thing in raising her daughter as bilingual in English and French

I think it’s more, or at least equally, about making sure you’re not overstepping or appropriating than true feelings of a Basque identity.
—Basque girl who does not and cannot meaningfully claim her heritage until she gets a whole lot better at the language.

I think the whole conversation about people FEELING more Basque if they speak Basque more frequently than Spanish is missing a piece of the puzzle: the social pressure of acknowledging your tie to a historically oppressed group. You don’t get to claim that you’re Basque if you don’t speak the language. Doing so would be a social error.

BASQUE COUNTRY MENTIONED!!!!

Describing curse words as having a bite. You. You get it.

Kids intuit that they need to speak with the local accent? My 7-year-old self would have to strongly disagree. She hated the local accent with everything she had. She clung to her roots, even when the roots were decaying in her hands.