Straddle zei:
Noem mij dan nog eens een aantal landen waarvan 40% a 50% van de bevolking taal X spreekt en de andere 40% a 50% van de bevolking taal Y spreekt. Uiteraard spreken ze in de meeste landen meer dan 1 taal, maar ik ken geen landen waarbij je zo duidelijk een taalgrens kan trekken als hier in België.
Je draait al helemaal om. Eerst beweer je dat de meeste landen min of meer linguïstisch en cultureel homogeen zijn:
"In de meeste landen is er echter wel nog een gevoel van uniformiteit en spreken ze dezelfde taal en houden de mensen er min of meer dezelfde voorkeuren/gewoontes op na."
En nu beweer je dat je eigenlijk bedoelt dat de meeste landen niet zoals België zijn.
Proficiat. Geen enkel land is zoals een ander land.
Ik zal me beperken tot een opsomming van de landen waarbij de linguïstische en culturele verdeeldheid groot genoeg is om te stellen dat er geen gevoel van uniformiteit is of waar er meerdere officiële talen zijn.
Sweden, with no official language (as of spring 2009), but Swedish as the main language and Finnish, Meänkieli, Romani, Sami and Yiddish recognized as minority languages. Meänkieli, a variant of Finnish, is spoken in Tornedalen and Haparanda in North Bothnia. Meänkieli, Finnish and Sami have a special status in the areas were speakers are significant minorities.
Switzerland has four national languages; German, French, Italian and Romansh[10]. The cantons Valais, Fribourg and Bern are bilingual (French and German), while canton Graubünden is trilingual (German, Romansh and Italian).
Spain,
Slovakia has a Hungarian minority of 520,000 (9.7%).
The Netherlands has two official languages, Dutch which is the primary language and Frisian which is recognized as a minority language and spoken by between 300,000 and 700,000 people. Frisian is mostly spoken in the province of Friesland (Fryslân) where it is the official first language, though a large majority of the population speaks Dutch most of the time.
Estonia has one official language, Estonian, but also sizeable Russian-speaking community (30% in 2000). Russian can be used in communication with local government where it's native to most population (Article 52 of the Constitution). Most Estonians can speak Russian,[6] although fluency varies considerably between age groups.
Kyrgyzstan: Kyrgyz and Russian both have official status.
Sri Lanka. Sinhala and Tamil are official languages.
India.
A sign-board that indicates the direction to Sabarimala, a pilgrim station in India. The multilingual board is written in Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu and English (in that order, from top to bottom)
There are 23 official languages in India (Including Hindi and English). The largest, Hindi, is spoken natively by 50% of the population and is largely understood by educated Indians. English is also widely used, although mainly in urban parts of the country. An Indian with a high-school education would generally be trilingual - speaking his or her own native language, in addition to Hindi and English, with varying fluency, both the languages being compulsorily (in select states) taught in most schools and colleges. French is one of the official languages in the territory of Puducherry. For more information, see Languages of India.
In Iraq, Arabic is the official language of the state, Kurdish is the official language of the north where 4 million native speakers live. Other languages also exist among Christian communities north of and around Baghdad, such as Aramaic.
In the United States, at the federal level, there is no official language, although there have been efforts to make English the official language.
In Mexico, the government recognizes 62 indigenous languages, including Nahuatl spoken by more than 1.5 million people and Aquacatec spoken by 27 people, along with Spanish. There is no official language at the federal level, although Spanish is the de facto state language.
In Guatemala, the official language is Spanish, however, there are 23 distinct Mayan languages. Not all Guatemalans speak Spanish, while some may do so only as a second or third language.
Canada is officially bilingual under the Official Languages Act and the Constitution of Canada that require the federal government to deliver services in both official languages. As well, minority language rights are guaranteed where numbers warrant. 59.3% of the population speak English as their first language while 22.9% are native speakers of French. The remaining population belong to some of Canada's many immigrant populations or to the indigenous population. See Bilingualism in Canada
Bolivia is officially multilingual, supporting Spanish and 36 native languages
Tel daar ook maar quasi heel Afrika bij.
Straddle zei:
Dat zie je mij dan ook niet beweren.
Goed. Dan ben je al van één van de meest voorkomende pro-separatistische argumenten af.
John1307 zei:
Alsof de Vlamingen zich willen aansluiten bij Nederland. Zowel Vlamingen als Walen hebben lustig meegewerkt aan het afbreken van de Belgische staat. Waarom? Zodat de politiekers lekker postjes konden verdelen onder elkaar. Resultaat? Byzantijns ambtenarenapparaat, torenhoge belastingsdruk om het te bekostigen, een afbreuk aan de welvaartstaat (vergelijkbare belastingsdruk met Scandinavië maar we krijgen er veel minder voor terug) en politieke verlamming.
Het politiek debat bestaat vandaag de dag in België alleen maar uit het uitkramen van goedkope oneliners zoals: Vlamingen=fascisten of Walen=steuntrekkers. Dat kan je niet echt een gezonde politieke omgeving noemen.
Mooi gezegd.
