I tend to agree with most of you here that language is not...

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I tend to agree with most of you here that language is not Haiti's problem.

Lack of education with a purpose seems to be a good part of it. Haiti of course needs to exists in its own contextual paradigm with its own culture and language.

We need to understand other people and other cultures too. Language alone does not necessarily lead into an understanding of an ethnic group.

The way to understand others is through their culture, their way of life, their music, their way of doing business, their mating patterns, their outlook on birth and death will tell you a lot about their culture and who they are. To understand a culture, one needs to study psychology, sociology, history, immigration, emigration, anthropology, music, art, philosophy and economics.

In the end, we can sum it up in one word:Survival.

But we must understand what it takes to survive.

We do live in a global village.

To isolate ourselves in one language is not beneficiary to Haiti...But, I also understand the need to belong when one is not too sure where belonging is. Maybe a temporary safe
haven in terms of language is necessary for now...until we as a group understand the ramification of it all...

Kreol is not indigenous to Haiti per se. Take a look at Martinique, Guadeloupe, Dominica, French Guyana, Louisiana among others...Then we may understand the larger picture.

I have been to all these places and was able to communicate in Creole with no major issues.

We tend to think of language learning in terms of upward mobility.

That is somewhat false.

If we want purely money and upward mobility then we need to study finance, financial services and business at college level.

Study of Humanities, including languages, is good to understand our world and our role in it. The second way to make a comfortable living is to go into a profession like medicine and law. OR YOU MIGHT strike it rich as an artist like Wyclef Jean. Artists throughout history have always been an abuse group.

Very few people make it there.

It is only recently in history that artists have been glamorized, then again, very few made it to the top. Most of them died in poverty and sorrow.

Marjorie Middy, December 11 2010, 8:43 PM

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