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  • frippa@lemmy.ml
    2·
    2 years ago

    Personally, I would hope for a system like that in China - local languages are taught and protected, but everyone still has to learn Mandarin too. But I don’t see that happening now.

    That would be perfect, another China w

    • RedSquid@lemmygrad.ml
      2·
      2 years ago

      It’s ironic that the Dalai Lama once mentioned Trentino-Alto Adige as a model for Tibetan autonomy, kinda sus ngl. Vabbu.

      Also official status for a lot of these languages might help me, selfishly as I could finally get like a duolinguo course or whatever, in Sicilian :D

      • frippa@lemmy.ml
        1·
        2 years ago

        Honestly I think we should sell either valle d aosta (better, they have only skii resorts for rich people) or Trentino (they at least keep apple prices low) to repay or giant debt

        • RedSquid@lemmygrad.ml
          2·
          2 years ago

          I think you shouldn’t sell parts of the country to foreign vultures, I may be a bit biased or have a romanticized view being ‘not really Italian’, but the ‘debts’ that states run aren’t real in the same way as you or I if we borrow money from the bank. Also Italy should just get in the BRI and get some Chinese loans :)

          In a sane world, Germany would never have been able to exploit the “PIGS” (nice racist term there) to keep their exports going, but then we don’t live in a sane world.