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Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hi guys.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(sigh)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a response to my video "Les \Nconsequences du Francais en Haiti"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which I did it in French talking about the\Nconsequences of French in Haiti.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I published this in April and I have the \Nlink to it up here and down there
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in my description box.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I got some really strong reactions to \Nthat post and it seems like I really hit a
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nerve for some people so I'm dedicating\Nthis week's message to response and debunk
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the prevalent counter arguments I received
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here are the main points I made \Nin that video:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"French hinders comunication in \Nself-expression among Haitians
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It divides the Haitian population and\Nfosters an inferiority complex for the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,majority of the population.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Haitions sustitute someone's ability to \Nmuster a few words in French for wisdom or
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,intelligence.Haitions fail to realize that\Nwhat they are seeing is more important
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than the language they used to say in.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And lastly, Haitians by and large cannot \Nspeak French.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These are fairly common and well-known\Nissues I presented to support my proposal
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of eliminating French as one of the two\Nofficial languages of Haiti.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But many didn't want to hear it and here \Nare some of the responses that I want to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,address.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The first one is that the problem of Haiti\Nis one of education not of language.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here is my issue with that point.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everyone knows that the state of education\Nin Haiti is dire, that has always been the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,case in Haiti but have you stopped to \Nthink that language is the basis of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,learning and education, so if you are \Nattempting to teach in a language that is
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cumbersome, unnatural and foreign to kids\Nthen you keep them at a disadvantage.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The medium that allows you to communicate\Nthe knowledge you are attempting to pass
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on is extremely relevant.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My experience as a student in Haiti was\Nthat many of my teachers were not fluent
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in French, far from.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So yes, there is an educational crisis in\NHaiti and this isn't breaking news to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,anyone. But the fact that we are insisting\Non sticking to French as the academic
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,language is to our own detriment.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is pedagogically impractical and \Nfrankly at this point pretty irresponsible
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The other thing people say that kind of \Ngoes along with the lack of education
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,argument is that well, we shouldn't just \Nlimit our kids to Creole we should teach
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,them French, Spanish, German, Italian, \Neverything.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ok, well, do I want our kids to learn \Nmultiple languages?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of course.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would like every little Haitian out \Nthere to know as many languages as the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,human brain can retain and my argument has\Nnever been to eradicate French from
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Haitian schools but rather to repeal its\Nstatus as an official language of the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of Haiti and instead prioritize Creole \Nwhich is the language that every last
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Haitian speaks.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Luxembourg has 3 official languages.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of them I'm sure most of people have \Nnever heard of, it's called Luxembourgish
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it is the language that is indigenous\Nto its people, the language of the heart
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for them so to speak.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even though, not many people outside of \NLuxembourg use it, that is the language
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that kids are taught in the first year of \Nprimary school before switching to German
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then French.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And proficiency and all three of their\Nofficial languages is required for
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,graduation from secondary school.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now as you can see they are somehow able \Nto pull off a
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,trilingual educational system to go along\Nwith the fact that they have 3 offical
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,languages meaning their important \Nlegislature, and official national affairs
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are recorded and reported steadily in all\N3 of these languages,