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[โ€“] randint@feddit.nl 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

banning local languages was also done by my local government around 50ish years ago. in every school. take a wild guess at where I'm from?

(no, I'm not dutch despite being on feddit.nl)

[โ€“] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Canada, I'm guessing? We did all sorts of horrible things like that even til the 1990s to the First Nations peoples.

[โ€“] randint@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Taiwan actually. They banned anything other than Mandarin.