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Article: Language, identity, citizenship.(Bilingual Cities)
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- Inroads: A Journal of Opinion
- Article date:
- January 1, 2002
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As THE POET HOLDERLIN WROTE, "Language, the most dangerous of all things, was given to man so that he could testify to having inherited what he is." Philip Resnick begins his exploration of the parallels between Belgium and Canada with this line. Language is inextricably at the core of the existential reality of multilingual, multinational states like Canada and Belgium. Speakers of the majority language must accept bilingualism as the institutional order of the day at the official level of their countries. But this does not eliminate the desire among members of the minority-language community to pursue unilateral means to defend their language.
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