Multiple modernities and the Tibetan diaspora

Whalen‐Bridge, John

doi:10.1080/19438192.2010.539039

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“…28 In the Jewish diaspora, Hebrew, no matter how little it is spoken, is still a primary marker of normative Judaism and in Israel, it is increasingly an element of political and territorial identity. In the Tibetan diaspora (notably in India), the Tibetan language is "the only standard base of all Tibetan studies" and is the bedrock of cultural self-preservation, 29 while, in the homeland, the Tibetan language has had to yield its primacy increasingly to Chinese.…”

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Nation-Building, Collective Identity, and Language Choices: Between Instrumental and Value Rationalities

Safran

Liu

2012

Nationalism and Ethnic Politics

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The discussion of the place of language in politics has generally revolved around its relationship to nation-building and ethnic conflict. Yet, these are not always causally connected nor is language easily given up for the sake of a greater national or individual good. Attitudes regarding language can be influenced by anticolonialist resentments, memories of past injustice, status paranoia, xenophobia, collective megalomania, religion, ideology, and the desire on the part of a group to base its collective identity on a demarcation from a real or imagined enemy. This applies to many dimensions of language policies, including officialization, alphabetization, gentrification, and glossonym changes. We argue that governments choose language policies for strategic reasons. Whether it is to legitimize or subordinate a language or whether or not the policy is itself the objective, these choices may have unintended consequences.

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Section: Rationality and Religionmentioning

confidence: 99%