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Decolonizing Your Language is a Powerful Way To Resist

March 22, 2020 by Justin McAffee 1 Comment

Words matter. People may not realize it, but our worldviews are built into and shaped by our language. While English is perfectly capable of expressing important ideas, it does lack a very important inherent aspect… a set of values that are often ingrained into indigenous languages about the connectivity of people, plants and animals to the land.

English Contains The Constructs of Colonialism and Capitalism

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