In a region filled with Spanish place names and Spanish speakers, the Spanish language has long been seen as “threatening," and a thing that needs to be “contained.”
  •  MrSqueezles   ( @MrSqueezles@lemm.ee ) 
    2•10 months ago

    There are many people who speak other languages. This is less about, “Spanish”, than what we should decide is a critical size of a language population for government to have to support it and how much. Where I live, the government supports three other languages and that comes with an expense, which we’ve decided is justified.