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Posted 536 weeks ago
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Posted 536 weeks ago
Honestly, Nepal is a multiethnical, multicultural and multilingual country and it's sad that these days languages are not being passed down to the next Generation. I understand it's much easier if everyone in a country speaks the same language but we should prevent minority languages from losing their importance. What about incorporating words from lets say Newari or Sherpa Kura into our everyday Nepali? It really would enrich "Nepali" and it would sort of honour the minority languages at least Well the reason a lot of the minority languages aren’t being passed down isn’t something that just started happening now. There are a lot of reasons for it, but I know the Rana and the Shah dynasties have been trying to wipe out a lot of these cultures during their rule. So Nepali schools didn’t (and pretty sure still don’t) teach these languages and people had to learn Nepali to pass the school board exams, hence the decrease in non-nepali language population. There are quite a few influences from Newari into Nepali and from a couple other languages too (I posted some articles and sources on here a few months ago relating to that. Check the “language” tag on the blog). It would be nice to have more influences from other languages into Nepali but I think what’s most important is that the minority languages should be part of the school curriculums and taught alongside Nepali and English. Each student should have to pick one secondary language to learn and then this way the languages are preserved in their original form. And they’d also learn about different cultures in their own countries. Like you said Nepal is multiethnical, multicultural and multilingual country and I think this would be a nice way of preserving some of that.
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Posted 536 weeks ago
Hi, I don't know if you do advice thing here or not but I'm just dying for it. So I've had a longest crush on this guy, who turns out to be what our nepali society calls 'the lower caste'. We just started talking and I don't think he knows that I know that he is of the so called lower caste. We haven't talked about this whole caste thing but I know it'll come up soon and I'm dreading that conversation. I don't wanna appear sympathetic because there's nothing wrong by being born in his caste... I do all kinds of advice :) you can come to me anytime. I read part 2 of your message too but couldn’t add on since I’m on mobile. So, I think the best thing to do is to mostly listen to what he has to say rather than talking because you don’t wanna talk too much and say the wrong thing right? Let him know that how you feel about him isn’t going to change because of his caste. Just be honest and see how the conversation goes. It’s difficult to give advice on exactly what to say because you never know how the conversation is going to go over but rather than saying much, I think you should let him speak and say what he wants to say. Maybe if it arises say something like “sorry you had to deal with all that. Our society is so messed up” or something along those lines. Be sure to let him know that your views about him isn’t affected by his caste. But mostly just listen to what he has to say. Hope this helps! Be open and honest and show him you have good intentions… Everything else will be fine.
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