Linguistic Denial by nation state (Iran)

 

The states rejection of linguistic diversity and the imposition of single national by making it necessary and compulsory mean to get by in ordinary life and several majority consequences.

1-      The traditional belief of minority languages by restricting their use to festive or literary contexts in which the are portrayed as signs of culture difference, and not as everyday maker of national identity.

2-      Perception of minority language as having lower status, which is directly connected to restrictions in their use.

3-      The progressive lack of interest in the cultivation of minority languages not only as part of high culture but also in everyday use; public and private utilization of language tend to decrease

4-      The labeling of the minority language as remnant of the past as a sign of backwardness and even resistance to modernization.

5-      The portrayal of the desire to maintain a language other than the official one as an indication of betrayal of the state and ones own fellow countrymen and woman.

 

Denial involves the exclusion of the minority language and culture from the states school system sentencing them to slow and so to speak natural death.

For any language to become the vehicle of expression of the most intimate emotions and feelings of a people, it takes more than its expansion through the school system and its compulsory character

It is requires as long and complex process at the end of which people should come to regard a particular language as their own and not as some thing, which has been imposed upon them.

The state repression has many face, and it range from more socio-economic to political measures, which include the use of force. To forbid a language and culture, and to dissolve, wherever they already exist, the political institutions of minority are common strategies employed by states to destroy completely internal diversity. The punishment to those who trespass the stats laws regarding these matters intended as deterrent. Continues intimidation and attacks on members of the minority seek to destroy any kind of national revival, which eventually turns in to a real threat to the states (Iran or Pakistan….) integrity.

The use of force stresses the power of states and the vulnerability of minorities (nations).

It is also reveals the states (Iran and paki) inability to put for ward it cause for homogenization by mean other than use of force.

The intensity, frequency and the means applied to implement repression are likely to provoke different out come which are closely related to the characteristic of minorities (nations). The degree of national consciousness and the solidarity among the minorities is likely to increase during period of repression when experiences of collective intimidation need to be constantly integrated in to the political discourse of resistance.

A prolonging repression usually undermines the national minority capacity to resist and favors it assimilation.

The Persian army invaded western Balochistan in 1927, since then western Balochistan became part of Iran, Persia imposed their culture, language, and way of life on to the Baloch. The Islamic republic of Iran has been building colonies in Chabahar, Zaheedan and Iran-Shahhr, the colony are not for the benefit of local indigenous people but for the benefit of outside agents. On the other hand the baloch has lost their ancestral property.

 

 

 

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