Hm, let's see...
3. I do'nt see how it is suppressed.
Sorry, maybe not the best word I chose. I didn't mean suppression by force, I meant being eclipsed by the presence and use of the others. What you mention that many people learn Hochdeutsch rather than Alsatian is part of this (and parallels what happened and happens to some German dialects in Germany proper, BTW). *Traitor*, n. A benighted individual who perceives an illusory distinction between serving his nation and abetting the criminals who govern it.
I'd need to dig up sources again, but that's been the experience of my growing up there, and occasional visits. I cna ask my parents who live there... In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
And I'll ask you a simple question.
What, if any, reason is there for Alsace to not call for self rule and independence if they can retaing the economic adavantages of being French by staying in the EU.
This is the problem that the growth of the EU creates. That post 1914 state system is being challenged from below by national minorities and above by European regulations. Who needs France when you can get the same things from the EU? And I'll give my consent to any government that does not deny a man a living wage-Billy Bragg
if they can retaing the economic adavantages of being French by staying in the EU.
In France, they are the second richest region, close to Germany but with support of the central French state. Alone, they are the poorer cousin of the Rhine valley as Basel, Baden-Würtenberg et al. are even wealthier...
Who needs France when you can get the same things from the EU?
The question also is: what State will let go more easily. Not France, for sure. In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
That is an issue of democracy, too. Those whom the Gods wish to destroy They first make mad. -- Euripides
