europidgin | Cultural neutrality

• Autor: europidgin
• Tema: Cultural neutrality
• Data: 2002-09-17 07:37
• Mesaje: 98 (a supra, presedente, seguente)

--- Kevin wrote:
> One IAL value that I feel strongly about is cultural neutrality. For
> you, is it very valuable, not very important, or irrelevant?
And other people seem to agree.

I think that EP/LFN has a lot of cultural bias. It's based on European Romance languages. If we wanted a cultural neutral IAL then I think it should be something like Bertram Russell's SUMA or another apriory language. Personally I would like a cultural neutral language, but I don't think the world is ready for it.

But Europeans need a common language. We have a political and economic union. People move around within the union. In our parliament they speak all the different languages in the union.

I'm Danish, but in my own family we feel the difficulties. My wife's family speak English as a second language. My son-in-law and my grandchildren speak Italian. When we travel we meet people who speak german, french etc.

A lot of Europeans speak English as the first or second language. But we really need a "bridge" to Europeans who speak a Romance language.

Bjorn