Very well said and understood that there is a problem that Assam might be
facing from the Hindi culture.
Now would one of you (you and C'da) be kind enough to tell us why is this
happening? Is it lack of love and pride for our own language, inferiority
complex, insecurity, glamor, force, good marketing style? what??
And, what is the solution to it? Censor? Go to everyone's home and shut off
their tv if they are not watching an Assamese movie/program, or produce classy
Assamese movies with good storylines, acting, color production that do
not follow the style of the hindi movies - running around the bushes or
girls dancing in a club with those mini, mini skirts and
men holding poms and dancing, or wearing a bright pink suit?
In short, the causes and the solution please!
>From: "J. Kalita" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "Chan Mahanta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>CC:
assam@pikespeak.uccs.edu
>Subject: Re: [Assam] Language &
Inferiotity Complex-Article by M. S. Thirumalai
>Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005
21:52:41 -0700 (MST)
>
>Chandan-dai koowa kothakhini
gurutwopurno. Xeituwei dhurup xotyo.
>
>Oxomiya bhaxar bipod
dui-ejone Ingraji koowar pora oha nai. Oxomiya bhaxar
>dan~or bipod hol
Hindi bhaxa. Oxomiya manuhe Ingraji koi native English
>speaker hobo
nooware hazar bosor goleo. Kintu, Oxomiya manuhe, Oxomiya
>lora
suwaliye Hindi TV sai sai, Hindi cinema sai sai, Hindi schoolot
>porhi,
Hindi koowa thailoi furiboli goi, keibosor manote
>xolxoliyakoi Hindi
kobo pare native Hindi speaker-or nisinakoi.
>
>Ingraji nijor
bhaxa koriboloi 1000 bosor, aru Hindi nijor bhaxa koriboli
>5-10
bosor!!
>
>Aru Oxomot birat sap Hindi xikiboloi aru koboloi.
Bortoman Oxomot 20-30ta
>Hindi TV channel 24/7, 0ta Oxomiya 24/7
channel. Oxomiya konmoinaho~te
>Hindi channel-he sai, Hindi ganhe xune,
Hindi cinema-he sai, Hindi gan
>bojaihe
>biyai-xohbai-bihut
nase. Todupori, jikhini thait (jene Arunachal,
>Nagaland, Meghalayat)
Oxomiya kisu koisil tat Hindir pura rajatwa sorkari
>policy-r karone.
Gotike Hindi je dan~or xotru Oxomiya bhaxar xeitu xui
>thoka manuhehe
najane buli kobo.
>
>English can never become the mother tongue
of an Assamese; hardly any
>Assamese will speak English with an English
or American or Australian
>accent to become an English speaker. The
world will not recognize it.
>However, an Assamese can easily learn
Hindi and start to speak Hindi like
>a native, more or less, and be
recognized as such. Soon, if in Assam,
>there is no "need" for
Assamese, these folks will speak in Hindi only.
>
>Also, the
geographical boundaries of traditional Assamese speaking areas
>are
being eroded by Hindi. Hindi has taken over Arunachal to our north and
>east, Hindi has taken over Nagaland to some extent to our east, Hindi
has
>taken over Meghalaya to our south. Hindi is a bigger danger than
English
>can ever be to the Assamese people.
>
>Slow
Hindi-ization is a way to remove Assamese nationalism.
>English-learning and English-speaking is not a hindrance to growth of
>Assamese nationalism.
>
>Hindi and Assamese are much
more cognate languages than English and
>Assamese. A more congate
language can already overshadow a language with
>1/40th or 1/50th the
number of speakers.
>
>Jugal Kalita
>
>
>
>
> > I was asking WHY speaking 'pidgin English' amounts to lack
of PRIDE
> > and thus a danger to the survival of the Assamese
language ( as DNB
> > contends) but widespread speaking of 'pidgin
Hindi' by the same folks
> > do not .
> >
> >
> >
> >>As far as Hindi is concerned - it hasn't yet
reached the 'status' of
> >>Ingrezi. Its the language of the
masses, So pidgin Hindi doesn't
> >>amount to much, while English
is still considered the language of
> >>the elite in India - the
Sahib's language. So there it is - The
> >>English left in 1947,
but they sure did leave us the language.
> >
> >
>
> *** Your explanation is that English is looked up to as the elites'
> > way, thus a danger, but Hindi is ordinary folks' language(
obviously
> > for Assamese folks' too), and thus it is not a danger.
> >
> > Did I understand you correctly Ram?
> >
> > And if I did, and if I asked you to grade yourself on that
answer,
> > how would you grade yourself? Pass or fail? A, B, C, D,
F--what :-)?
> >
> >
> > *** The fact of the
matter Ram, is that DNB and his admirers and
> > supporters on the
matter in this net are unable to admit the fact
> > that the latter,
the proliferation of Hindi influence on the Assamese
> > is a far
greater danger to the integrity of the Assamese language,
> > not
English.
> >
> > Not that they are unable to see it. It is
just that to admit it,
> > would be inimical to their pan_Indian
political aspirations. So, they
> > would just as soon not see it.
> >
> > But to not see it signals yet another fact: That
they are far less
> > concerned about the Assamese language's
integrity or long term
> > survival, than their concern about
Assamese nationalism.
> >
> > The fact that the Assamese
people have not paid heed to this group of
> > people's concerns
make them angry. They think the Assamese people are
> > foolish.
They want them to feel guilty. What better way to make that
> >
happen, than to suggest that they, the people who harbor aspirations
>
> of an Assamese sub-national or national identity have no sense of
> > pride in their most significant icon of identity--their
language,
> > that they suffer from 'inferiority complex' and thus
are unworthy of
> > such aspirations. And to prove it, they cite the
Assamese people's
> > aspirations for speaking in English, even
'pidgin English', never
> > mind that the percentage of such people
is minuscule.
> >
> >
>
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