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Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hi guys.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(sigh)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a response to my video "Les \Nconsequences du Francais en Haiti"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which I did it in French talking about the\Nconsequences of French in Haiti.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I published this in April and I have the \Nlink to it up here and down there
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in my description box.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I got some really strong reactions to \Nthat post and it seems like I really hit a
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nerve for some people so I'm dedicating\Nthis week's message to response and debunk
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the prevalent counter arguments I received
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here are the main points I made \Nin that video:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"French hinders comunication in \Nself-expression among Haitians
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It divides the Haitian population and\Nfosters an inferiority complex for the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,majority of the population.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Haitions sustitute someone's ability to \Nmuster a few words in French for wisdom or
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,intelligence.Haitions fail to realize that\Nwhat they are seeing is more important
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than the language they used to say in.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And lastly, Haitians by and large cannot \Nspeak French.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These are fairly common and well-known\Nissues I presented to support my proposal
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of eliminating French as one of the two\Nofficial languages of Haiti.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But many didn't want to hear it and here \Nare some of the responses that I want to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,address.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The first one is that the problem of Haiti\Nis one of education not of language.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here is my issue with that point.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everyone knows that the state of education\Nin Haiti is dire, that has always been the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,case in Haiti but have you stopped to \Nthink that language is the basis of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,learning and education, so if you are \Nattempting to teach in a language that is
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cumbersome, unnatural and foreign to kids\Nthen you keep them at a disadvantage.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The medium that allows you to communicate\Nthe knowledge you are attempting to pass
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on is extremely relevant.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My experience as a student in Haiti was\Nthat many of my teachers were not fluent
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in French, far from.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So yes, there is an educational crisis in\NHaiti and this isn't breaking news to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,anyone. But the fact that we are insisting\Non sticking to French as the academic
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,language is to our own detriment.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is pedagogically impractical and \Nfrankly at this point pretty irresponsible
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The other thing people say that kind of \Ngoes along with the lack of education
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,argument is that well, we shouldn't just \Nlimit our kids to Creole we should teach
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,them French, Spanish, German, Italian, \Neverything.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ok, well, do I want our kids to learn \Nmultiple languages?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of course.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would like every little Haitian out \Nthere to know as many languages as the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,human brain can retain and my argument has\Nnever been to eradicate French from
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Haitian schools but rather to repeal its\Nstatus as an official language of the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of Haiti and instead prioritize Creole \Nwhich is the language that every last
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Haitian speaks.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Luxembourg has 3 official languages.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of them I'm sure most of people have \Nnever heard of, it's called Luxembourgish
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it is the language that is indigenous\Nto its people, the language of the heart
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for them so to speak.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even though, not many people outside of \NLuxembourg use it, that is the language
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that kids are taught in the first year of \Nprimary school before switching to German
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then French.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And proficiency and all three of their\Nofficial languages is required for
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,graduation from secondary school.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now as you can see they are somehow able \Nto pull off a
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,trilingual educational system to go along\Nwith the fact that they have 3 offical
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,languages meaning their important \Nlegislature, and official national affairs
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are recorded and reported steadily in all\N3 of these languages,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even the one that we've never heard of.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What's the point of this little sidebar?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, it isn't a sidebar at all.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is to answer to the people who would\Nrather say: let's just teach our Haitian
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,kids every language on the planet instead \Nof focusing on teaching them in their
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,primary language, Creole.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A language that is said to be official in\Nour country yet all the important business
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,political, professional and administrative\Ndealings are not recorded or reported
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Creole.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Over the years, when nationally elected\Nofficials address the population,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they deliver speeches in French and all \Nwhile everyone knows that Creole
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is the language.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Creole is constitutionally one of our \Nofficial language but that's only"a L'oral
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like people say, meaning it's only \Nsomething we say.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Have we even tried to apply it in that\Ncapacity?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Have we even tried before we start crying\Nhow it is unsustainable as a global means
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of communication for our children?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What kills me is that these people \Nobjecting so passionately against the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,removal of French are the first to boast \Nthat we defeated French in 1804
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that's the one thing from which they\Nderive Haitian pride, yet they don't
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,realize that they are perpetuating \Noppression,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,holding stubbornly onto the language and \Nthe ways of the French at the expense of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their own culture.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For those of you telling me that back in\Nthe days, you and your friends used to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,speak French, that's like me say every \NHaitian speaks English because my friends
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I speak it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That doesn't mean anything.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you look at the data, education has \Nalways been a privilege reserved for the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,very few in Haiti and only the educated\Ncan manage to speak a little French in
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Haiti ergo.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Certain people's experiences back in the \Nday when things were a little bit better
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for some doesn't demonstrate that at some\Npoint French worked in Haiti.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It never did and never will.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, the other argument I got quite a bit \Nis that we can't get rid of French
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because we need something to keep us \Nconnected to the rest of the world and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people were also saying that having a \NCreole take-over
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,now would set us back because we would \Nhave to start from scratch
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,since Creole is such an unformulated\Nlanguage.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ok, first of all, I hate to break it to \Nyou but the world has left Haiti behind
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a long time ago, and it's not just because\Nour people don't speak French,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's because we have not invested or\Neducated our people.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Speaking French is not what's going to get\Nconnected or keep us connected to the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,world because we don't need French to\Nfacilitate international exchanges
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to implement French as a language of\Nthe Haitian people would require the same
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,effort as to implement any other language\Noutside of Creole.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With Creole we have an advantage,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's our mother tongue, we already \Nspeak it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have to make the distinction:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To teach French is not the same as \Neducating our people.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here in the USA, everyone speaks the same\Nlanguage, yet you will see that an
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,uneducated person cannot articulate or\Nexpress themselves.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The reason why our Creole-speaking masses\Nsound uneducated oftentimes
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is because they are uneducated,not because\Nthey are speaking Creole.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,However, French can make a smart and \Neducated Haitian sound stupid
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And a stupid Haitian who can remember \Ntheir French vocab and grammar rules is
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,oftentimes reveal and considered smart,no\Nmatter how dimwitted they might be.