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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (1): 3–6.
Published: 01 March 2012
...Mahmoud Salem; Anatoly Liberman; Thomas Hylland Eriksen; Saksith Saiyasombut; Lee Bollinger; Adewale Maja-Pearce; Nazifullah Salarzai Compiled by Julia Hanne and Leah Greenbaum While language policies are in place to encourage diversity, the government is also trying to keep the country...
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (2): 9–13.
Published: 01 June 2018
... his strengths as a stern but compassionate leader. Small wonder that not only did Duterte clobber his more moneyed and established rivals in the election, but that a majority of Filipinos living and working abroad also picked him as their number-one choice. The president speaks the language...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (3): 45–50.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Ananya Vajpeyi Indian scholar Ananya Vajpeyi examines the way the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party is using Sanskrit to advance a Hindu supremacist agenda. She argues that academics need to step out of the ivory tower and resist the government’s manipulation of this ancient language. Copyright ©...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (1): 43–47.
Published: 01 March 2012
...Miguel Jiron WPJ: We are increasingly citizens of the world, no longer citizens of France, of the United States… Djebar: The problem for these children is deciding which other language to learn than their own. In Arabic, there are the problems of multiple dialects, languages even. Very...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (1): 20–21.
Published: 01 March 2012
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (1): 47–56.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Daniela Gomes; Janaya Khan Janaya Khan , the Canadian co-founder of Black Lives Matter–Toronto, and Daniela Gomes , a São Paulo-based journalist and scholar, are part of the same fight to end anti-black racism. They’re just doing it some 5,000 miles apart in different countries and languages...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (4): 39–45.
Published: 01 December 2012
... Cooperation in Education at Japan’s Hiroshima University. © World Policy Institute 2012 2012 World Policy Institute Meehyun Nam-Thompson Lagos—In her song “One Kilometer, One Language,” Nigerian pop star Evi Edna Ogholi captures Africa’s linguistic complexity. In pidgin English, she raps...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (2): 97–103.
Published: 01 June 2012
...Ananya Vajpeyi Today, as India enters its third decade of globalization, Hindi is no longer as tortured about its broken relationship with its Pakistani counterpart, Urdu. Indeed, Hindi’s creolization with English is marking the true break between the two languages. The encroachment...
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (1): 24–25.
Published: 01 March 2018
... ANATOMY WHERE ARE YOU FROM? In a 2016 Pew Research Center study on national identity, respondents in all 14 countries polled overwhelmingly considered language to be a key component of nationality. World Policy Journal investigates how accessible six European countries...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (1): 22–32.
Published: 01 March 2012
... of lingering Turkish immigration to Germany. It also remains of great concern to those who believe that the tendency of Turkish Germans to import spouses perpetuates a perennial immigrant culture with Turkish, not German, language and traditions remaining paramount within families. The spouses coming from...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (1): 7–12.
Published: 01 March 2012
... speeches to their own flocks in their own languages, speaking in terms that they would hesitate to use before a wider audience, KTN sometimes broadcasts such clips on national television, subtitled in Swahili or English. The network has chosen to diversify the audience as a way of discouraging...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (4): 20–23.
Published: 01 December 2017
... a growing pride in Sámi identity among members of the community—a feeling I share. As an adult I wanted to reclaim my native language, so I enrolled in a language-study program in Guovdageaidnu, a little town in northern Norway where Sámi culture and language are dominant. (There are approximately twice...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (1): 1–2.
Published: 01 March 2017
... resonates because he understood the central importance of language and of being able to hold onto simple facts. “Freedom is the freedom to say two plus two equals four. If that is granted, all else follows,” one of Orwell’s characters says in 1984 . Six years before 1984 came out, Orwell had already...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (1): 55–59.
Published: 01 March 2017
... a country from authoritarianism. This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity . MG: I think they play a huge role. Historically they certainly have helped by providing people with language and with vision and also with exercising the imagination. One of the most important things...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (2): 105–111.
Published: 01 June 2015
... in Turkish media. In its last hate speech report from September to December 2013, with data gathered from every Turkish print media source, the foundation counted 57 cases of anti-Semitic language—the same number of hateful language citations against Armenians. Zeyne parslon of hrant dink foundation has...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (3): 112–122.
Published: 01 September 2015
... for it in terms of potential for unity. It is, for the most part, all located on a single continent, with the exception of some Caribbean islands that are easy sailing, certainly flying distance from the Latin mainland. They have just two dominant languages and a common colonial heritage—all at one time...
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World Policy Journal (2004) 21 (1): 96–101.
Published: 01 March 2004
... have encouraged the through Lithuania to the isolated Russian renovation of old structures, so that new port of Kaliningrad; it seeks official status restaurants and hotels sprout even within for the Russian language in Estonia and the cloistered walls of a fourteenth-century Latvia; it is wary...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (3): 81–88.
Published: 01 September 2012
... substantial fiscal and political powers to the region while restor-ing the Basque language, Euskera, to the public sphere. Meanwhile, prosperity grew, spurred in part by European Union funds. At the same time, ETA, under pressure from security forces, lost substantial public sympathy by switching...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (4): 46–50.
Published: 01 December 2017
... of the Crees: “The Covenants are explicit. They apply to ‘all peoples.’ The Universal declaration is also explicit; international human rights protections are to apply universally and indivisibly.” It is also worth noting that language within the purposes and principles section of the United Nations Charter...
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World Policy Journal (2002) 19 (1): 90–94.
Published: 01 March 2002
...Craig Davis Copyright © 2002 World Policy Institute 2002 KNOWLEDGE C raig D av is is a d u al Ph.D . candidate in the departments o f N ear Eastern Languages an d Cultures an d Religious Studies a t Indiana University, Bloomington. He conducted fieldwork on A fghan...