Smashed nation

Last week on TV that elder Serbian man in Mitrovica in Kossovo said: "Why should I go? I haven't done anything wrong". And then that Albanian boy, crying: "O yes, you walked here with a gun, you murdered here". And most viewers won't have noticed, but even now that Albanian boy spoke Serbian to that man!

That is in agreement with what I read in a newspaper: Sandra, born in Kossovo, doesn't speak a word Albanian. She feels no need to: "We live here in Serbia, the official language is Serbian".

That unspeakable arrogance prevailed also in our Dutch province of Friesland. We learned at school to bow to that handful of Dutch here, that were too lazy to learn Frisian. Is it any wonder that we as Frisians behave queer? Centuries of education in that way have smashed us to pieces.

At once I realize that the Frisian movement essentially is not there because we want to preser ve the Frisian language. The real issue is whether we should be treated equally as humans. Therefore this nasty conditioning should disappear from the Frisian schools as soon as possible!

P. Kramer, 21th june 1999

Reaction 26.6.: You feed from us Dutch. Humbleness you should learn. One Vietnam and many Vietnams. (Original)

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