We all like to think of ourselves as being good people. However, we quite often we are selfish. A person can be begging for help to save their way of life, and we won’t bat an eye. We will often think that the person begging needs to get with the times or that they are just whining over nothing. However when we ourselves need help, we become shocked and outraged when we receive no such thing. This is what Tom Law attempts to convey in his article “Cachau Bant: Mind Your Language”, where he asserts to the British population, the need to save the Welsh language and culture from fading away.
Tom Law who is angry at the 150 years of suppressing and crushing of his native tongue, starts his article out with the following sentence; “It’s hard to …show more content…
From this quote, the reader finds it obvious that the author is outraged by the English, who are deliberately neglecting the Welsh language. The reader also sees that Law is greatly concerned about the longevity and endurance of the Welsh language, and that someone has to act immediately, if the Welsh tongue is to survive past the next few generations. Law also states that people simply don’t care, due to the fact that they are not the ones that are suffering, Law also adds the following; “[…] When you hear people bleat on about their language disappearing – it doesn’t really register. There are more important things to worry about in life than some bloke in Aberystwyth demanding a bi-lingual sign on his local fish and chip shop.” Law then goes on to say that if the UK were to be absorbed by an EU-state, and German became the common language used in law, politics and big corporations. Due to German being used regarding public affairs, people would start to learn German and send their children to learn German, as a way to stand out in the job market and therefore also improving their future job prospects. Law states that there would form a divide between those that were able to speak German and those that were unable, and at
Tom Law who is angry at the 150 years of suppressing and crushing of his native tongue, starts his article out with the following sentence; “It’s hard to …show more content…
From this quote, the reader finds it obvious that the author is outraged by the English, who are deliberately neglecting the Welsh language. The reader also sees that Law is greatly concerned about the longevity and endurance of the Welsh language, and that someone has to act immediately, if the Welsh tongue is to survive past the next few generations. Law also states that people simply don’t care, due to the fact that they are not the ones that are suffering, Law also adds the following; “[…] When you hear people bleat on about their language disappearing – it doesn’t really register. There are more important things to worry about in life than some bloke in Aberystwyth demanding a bi-lingual sign on his local fish and chip shop.” Law then goes on to say that if the UK were to be absorbed by an EU-state, and German became the common language used in law, politics and big corporations. Due to German being used regarding public affairs, people would start to learn German and send their children to learn German, as a way to stand out in the job market and therefore also improving their future job prospects. Law states that there would form a divide between those that were able to speak German and those that were unable, and at