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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.00,0:00:02.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>> In [inaudible]\NPalace, the high
Dialogue: 0,0:00:02.92,0:00:06.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,temple of Mexican\Nculture, poet Celerina
Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.04,0:00:08.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sanchez is reciting\Nin her native tongue
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.92,0:00:15.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[FOREIGN] It's part of
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.08,0:00:16.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the celebrations for
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.16,0:00:17.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,international\Nmother tongue day.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.86,0:00:19.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here, it's an\Nespecially big deal.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.98,0:00:22.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Seven-and-a-half million\NMexicans speak one
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.38,0:00:25.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the country's 68\Nindigenous languages.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.20,0:00:26.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But not all is well.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.76,0:00:29.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,More than half of\Nthem are in danger.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.70,0:00:31.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>> If my language dies,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.98,0:00:33.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'll never know how\Nto name things,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.78,0:00:36.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how to see the world\Nfrom my point of view.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.18,0:00:37.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wouldn't be\Nable to do that.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.88,0:00:39.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>> The loss of\Nnative languages
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.82,0:00:41.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hasn't happened\Nby accident here.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.66,0:00:42.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Indigenous people have
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.98,0:00:45.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,historically been\Ndiscriminated against,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.26,0:00:46.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even punished for speaking
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.68,0:00:48.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their languages\Nin schools.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.32,0:00:49.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Migration to cities or
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.92,0:00:52.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the US has also\Ntaken its toll.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.36,0:00:53.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Rene says he's now one of
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.76,0:00:55.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the only young people from
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.08,0:00:57.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,his village in\Nthe tricky region
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.16,0:01:02.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to still play\Nthe old songs.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.91,0:01:04.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>> [MUSIC].
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.43,0:01:05.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>> Things have to change.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.81,0:01:07.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We shouldn't be thinking\Nthat people are
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.41,0:01:09.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,less for speaking an\Nindigenous language.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.53,0:01:10.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to tell
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.35,0:01:11.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the world that\Nit's actually very
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.69,0:01:13.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,valuable because it locks
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.09,0:01:14.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in all of our\Nancestral knowledge,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.85,0:01:16.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,music, and medicine,\Nthe things
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.63,0:01:17.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we've been losing.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.90,0:01:19.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>> Mexicans seem\Nto be coming
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.73,0:01:21.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,round to that\Npoint of view.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.13,0:01:23.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those taking the Nahuatl\Npoems handed out by
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.71,0:01:25.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,officials in the Metro are
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.29,0:01:27.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,keen to hang on\Nto their roots.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.66,0:01:31.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>> It's important not\Nto lose our traditions
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.65,0:01:34.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and languages because\Nthey're our inheritance.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.07,0:01:36.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've already\Nalmost lost them,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.01,0:01:36.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but we should teach
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.85,0:01:38.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our children to\Nvalue what we have.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.99,0:01:40.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>> That's spilled into
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.58,0:01:42.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mexico's artistic life,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.20,0:01:44.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it hasn't necessarily\Ngot beyond that.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.54,0:01:46.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's increasingly\Nacceptance and
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.60,0:01:49.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,support for cultural\Nevents like this one.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.52,0:01:51.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But linguistics experts
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.24,0:01:52.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and indigenous leaders say
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.62,0:01:54.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that it's in\Nthe day-to-day
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.06,0:01:55.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that things still\Nneed to change.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.92,0:01:57.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For example, in hospitals,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.98,0:01:59.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even in indigenous areas,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.76,0:02:01.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's often a lack\Nof interpreters,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.72,0:02:02.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so people can't tell
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.96,0:02:05.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,doctors exactly what's\Nwrong with them.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.12,0:02:07.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The same in the judicial\Nsystem in which
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.42,0:02:09.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,indigenous people\Nhave been sent down
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.60,0:02:11.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without really\Nknowing what's
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.08,0:02:12.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,going on in their trial.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.41,0:02:13.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those are the harder,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.86,0:02:15.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,less visible changes that
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.38,0:02:16.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the new government\Nwill have
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.60,0:02:18.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to also engage with,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.16,0:02:19.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if it wants the country
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.24,0:02:20.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to continue celebrating,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.80,0:02:23.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not mourning its\Nmother tongues.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.12,0:02:27.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,John Holman, Al\NJazeera, Mexico City.