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Sir Matthew Begbie Elementary School renamed wək̓ʷan̓əs tə syaqʷəm
The Vancouver Sun ^ | Dec 10, 2022 | Tiffany Crawford

Posted on 12/11/2022 3:03:52 AM PST by fluorescence

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To: fluorescence
H@Ha

F*ck Kanada.

61 posted on 12/11/2022 7:45:22 AM PST by MrBambaLaMamba (The only good commie is one that's dead - Country Joe McDonald)
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To: Travis McGee
So-called native or indigenous kids will be brainwashed to hate their “colonial oppressor tongue.”

So will "indigenous" kids be taught alien western rationalism and scientific materialism, or will they be taught their own mythologies as historical truth?

62 posted on 12/11/2022 7:50:19 AM PST by Zionist Conspirator (בראשית ברא אלקים את השמים ואת הארץ)
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To: fluorescence

Using the white mans alphabet is cultural appropriation.


63 posted on 12/11/2022 7:50:52 AM PST by Pocketdoor
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To: moovova

Your ESG score will suffer if you mispronounce that name.


Or if you use ‘Sunrise School” instead. Actually that might be considered a hate crime.


64 posted on 12/11/2022 7:53:50 AM PST by hanamizu
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To: Travis McGee

In Israel, signs are in Hebrew, Arabic and English. And where I live, also in Russian. But people actually speak those languages, as well as French, Amharic and Yiddish. So they kept it down to three. The only language that was aggressively pushed was Hebrew, revived from being a purely liturgical and scholarly language to colloquial. The only language that was aggressively suppressed was Yiddish, but it’s still around, so that failed.

Lately, Eastern Christians have taken a hankering to speaking Aramaic again, since the Palestinian Authority’s behavior in Bethlehem and Beit Jaleh has thoroughly alienated them from continuing to identify as “Palestinian Christians,” so a lot of them are dropping Arabic as a lingua franca in favor of Aramaic.


65 posted on 12/11/2022 8:13:09 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (Free country? Good morning, Rip. )
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To: fluorescence

Demographics of Vancouver: 46% Asian (principally Chinese, Phillippino), 43% White, 3% Black, 2% Indigenous. So whose Idea was this? A Black “diversity consultant” from Ottowa. The school board on the other hand is snowflake white:

Elementary education • Kristie Lindholm • 360-313-1010
Secondary education • Jim Gray • 360-313-1011
Special education • Daniel Bettis • 360-313-1250
Human resources • Kathy Everidge • 360-313-1080
Nutrition services • Mari Ovens • 360-313-1190
Transportation • Grace Elligott • 360-313-4800
Safety • Dave Bennett • 360-313-1044
Communications office • Pat Nuzzo • 360-313-1230
Education ombuds • Rachel Cason • 360-313-1187

Any of these sound like Asian names to you? First Nations?

(I kinda got a chuckle about the nutrition services member “Marry Ovens.”)


66 posted on 12/11/2022 9:24:59 AM PST by dangus
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To: Eleutheria5

I’m for whatever people actually want to speak.

In the eastern third of The Ukraine, that was Russian, and suppressing the Russian language after the U.S. sponsored Maidan Coup (not taught in schools, not used in any govt buildings/official proceedings) is a big part of the reason for the current war. It formalized that Russians were 2nd-class citizens in Ukraine, from east to west and north to south.

If you have to make up a new alphabet out of whole cloth, instead of phoneticizing one of the in-use alphabets, betrays the “divide and conquer” strategy.

Good grief, the English conquered Ireland and supplanted Irish with English, but Irish is so hard to learn, even the Irish stick with English. And Roman letters.


67 posted on 12/11/2022 10:08:34 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: fluorescence

I remember an old joke that “Waxahachie” means “watch your step” (the settler was about to step in a cow pad).


68 posted on 12/11/2022 10:11:33 AM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Rurudyne

Believe it or not, Ripley asserted that when a British explorer pointed at a bouncing local animal and said “What do you call that?”, one of the Aboriginals replied in his native dialect “Kan ga roo”, which means “I don’t understand.”


69 posted on 12/11/2022 10:39:34 AM PST by null and void (The “advantage” isn’t for you...it’s for the bank.)
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To: Travis McGee

There can be one official state language, or more. And that is no contradiction to people speaking whatever language they’re most comfortable with among themselves. In Europe, Latin was once the official language everywhere. And every region had its own lingua franca, which was whatever it was.


70 posted on 12/11/2022 10:41:42 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (Free country? Good morning, Rip. )
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I went to Begbie in the sixties. Grade 3 through 6. I remember the big picture of the hanging judge in the hallway by the office. It was a beautiful old school. I do believe it was torn down a year or two ago and replaced. Looks like they have replaced more than the structure :(


71 posted on 12/11/2022 11:51:35 AM PST by LilyBean
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To: Palio di Siena

I do:

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot...


72 posted on 12/11/2022 11:53:44 AM PST by kosciusko51
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To: fluorescence

They have no written language, in the real world that means they are turd world and proud of it.


73 posted on 12/11/2022 12:55:27 PM PST by Glad2bnuts ("None of the people I know who didn't take take the Jab regrets their decision" ZERO)
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To: blueplum

It is like what the non-african blks say, it is not impotent what was said, but the tone brah.


74 posted on 12/11/2022 12:57:20 PM PST by Glad2bnuts ("None of the people I know who didn't take take the Jab regrets their decision" ZERO)
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To: fluorescence

Apparently this school is not located in some remote area where the students speak the language used for the name (Musqueam). It’s in the city of Vancouver — map (https://i.imgur.com/pJ5mQf8.jpg). That’s an old map. Now cartographers will have to contend with the new name (along with everybody else).


75 posted on 12/11/2022 5:00:13 PM PST by GJones2 (Elementary school renamed in Musqueam)
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To: Delta 21

Man, I miss that guy. One of the all time greats on SNL. He carried that show for many seasons.


76 posted on 12/11/2022 8:27:21 PM PST by cport (How can political capital be spent on a bunch of ingrates)
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To: fluorescence

Isqueam
Yousqueam
We Musqueam
For Isqueam.


77 posted on 12/11/2022 8:34:23 PM PST by pax_et_bonum (God is good, He loves us, and He is always with us.)
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