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No, Tiba, I didn't leave.

I just had some deadlines to deal with. And since the blog was polluted with very low caliber people with nothing much to say, I took a blog brake.

I understand that Creole is a fundamental part of Haitian culture.

However, for it to really be the official language, the government would have to start by making sure that all documents, all economic exchanges, and all educational levels occur in Creole.

As I said in my last post, that type of restructuring to legitimize the language has never been done in Haiti.

As long as there is an upper class society that continues to speak French, and all of the official institutions continue to function primarily in French, Haitians who don't speak French will be at a disadvantage.

I've lived in the US from the time I was a young teen, and although I have lived on and off in Haiti as an adult, English is really my first language now. However, whenever I go to Haiti, I always find myself speaking French when I have to take care of official business.

I might speak Creole to my close friends, but even they often speak French between themselves.

The reason they continue to speak French instead of Creole, and continue to make sure that their children learn to speak the language properly, is because in Haiti the advantage goes to those who speak French not Creole.

Today, those who do speak the language properly actually discriminate against most of the rest of the people who actually speak a very poor French.

This will not stop until there are some fundamental restructuring at all institutional levels.

Linda, December 11 2008, 10:21 PM

Topic: Haitians do not speak french

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