Message from @ophiuchus
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Has brown faces creeping in in greater numbers every year
@Wood-Ape - OK/MN Wow. Yeah, I've read about Acadians, but I've yet to encounter one. Fascinating, though.
@Bjorn - MD They're rare, rarer every year. Lots of small cultures out there. Yooper Finns are a favorite of mine as well (from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan)
Huh. Crazy...
Do you know of the disappearing Tangier Island accent?
I hate living in a majority black city
@Ald I did not. I knew about Gullah Islanders, sort of a black analog.
@Bjorn - MD In a decent country, we'd protect these people's future so they can endure or grow.
Every random splinter of native tribes get land and linguistic preservation funding.
It is simultaneously whitepilling to see these little ethnies are extant and blackpilling because they are so fragile and will certainly go culturally extinct if this current order does not first
Agreed. I mean, I don't know about institutionalizing dialects in public schools and whatnot in order to perpetuate them indefinitely, but I think that freedom of association and mercantilist/protectionist/economic nationalist policies would go a long way toward making that a reality.
Yeah (about the fragility point) 😔
Members of my family have Baltimore accents to the highest degree, which has been harmed because of white flight
@Bjorn - MD I absolutely would fund rare language classes in their localities.
Maybe not make street signs, but things to keep it going.
For sure, and that's where subsidiarity comes it. They should be allowed to create the necessary laws and institutions at the appropriate level to make that a reality. Not terribly difficult to do. Lots of experience with it in Europe proper already.
My grandfather had a sort of half way American half way Stockholm accent
By way of being second generation
I'd even be cool with bilingual street signs, provided none is in any dialect of Spanish, and English is always on top and larger.
My Grandma has a mix of a New Jersey and western Norwegian accent, kinda funny
Ostensibly a European language, but it just does not have that connotation here anymore
Right, the context is that Spanish is linguistic warfare
My grandma had a weird mix of an English West-Country and a Massachusetts accent, my other grandma still has an extreme Jawjuh accent
@ophiuchus French is majority African, or will be soon.
My parents have virtually no accent and I definitely don't. Kinda disappointing.
Montreal was passed by Kinshasa as the second largest francophone city recently iirc
Yeah. I mean, Spaniards are obviously European, and after the initial moratorium, if we decide to make immigration a thing again, then they could be eligible, but the situation between us and Latin America is such that there can be no compromise on linguistic intrusion.
Meh. If you call what the Congolese speak French.
That's fair. Anything that has a proper Spanish root for a name was absorbed into English by now anyway. Santa Fe, etc.
Mass media destroys accents
Everyone under 30 sounds like they're from Burbank now
If we make immigration a thing again it should be understood for the sake of cohesion and civilizational self confidence that we speak English and our core culture is English-derived
Canada almost joined the union in the 1800s
@NateDahl76 That's definitely true. We hardly even speak dialects anymore; just Broadcast English in varying accents...
WASP culture is American Culture - Queen Ann
What a superpower we would be...
The Canadian provinces still have a standing invitation to join the union, and thus do not need the approval of congress to join. Fun fact.
@ophiuchus White Anglo-Saxon Pagan? <:varg:359010745192808449>
If the Pig War had popped off, Alaska would have perhaps be connected via Yukon and British Columbia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_War_(1859)