Un atac més des de Madrid

Un altre cop som agredits des de Madrid. Aquest cop per un pobre ignorant que des de més de 600 km de distància vols ensenyar a viure en territoris de parla no espanyola. Quina llàstima que aquest individu faci servir una revista científica per atacar altres territoris i fer propaganda política encoberta, segurament això dóna una idea del tipus de persona que deu ser:

Schools in a third of Spain teach only in minority languages

Jose M. Rojo

Departamento de Fisiopatología Molecular y Celular, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas, CSIC, Ramiro de Maeztu 9, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Email:jmrojo@cib.csic.es

Sir,

Your Editorial ‘Comédie française’ (Nature 453, 1144; 10.1038/453114b 2008) argues that opposition by the members of the Académie française to including regional languages in the French constitution is disingenuous. But maybe these French academics have looked south and seen what has happened in Spain, where “regional and minority languages, like endangered species”, are considered to “merit protection” by several of the regional governments.

Today, it is impossible to obtain public or publicly funded education in Spanish, the common language, in the schools of about one third of the country, including Catalonia, Mallorca and Valencia. For example, teaching is conducted in Catalan or one of its variants in northeastern Spain, and in Gallego in Galicia in the northwest.

In the Basque country, despite the obscurity of the language, education programmes will be available only in Basque from 2009 and programmes taught partially in Spanish will be dropped.

This is an absurd situation, where in some places it is easier for Spanish children to study in English (for example, in the British Council schools) than in Spanish, the language that the Spanish constitution has set as the common official language.

It has stimulated prominent — and by no means all conservative — intellectuals, headed by the novelist Mario Vargas Llosa, to sign a manifesto calling to defend the rights of Spanish-speaking people in their own country (see http://tinyurl.com/692c5g, or in automatic-translation English at http://tinyurl.com/5fvbrp). ¡Qué horror!

En el següent post trobareu la meva resposta ja enviada a la revista Nature.