In a selfless attempt to create awareness, Manes Pierre outlines several proposals to end this language injustice that inflicts thousands of people and to give back to Creole-speaking Haitians what they never should have lost, pride of their native language.
Consider how you communicate and identify yourself. How much a part of your world is centered on language? How would you function if your own language was not recognized by others? For many Haitian men, women, and children, this is reality.
The Man & His Thoughts is an expository and revealing look at the lives of the many Haitians whose native tongue is Creole, but whose country's official language is French. As a child growing up in Haiti, Pierre experienced first-hand the isolation and inferiority this language barrier causes, the feeling of being a foreigner in your own country.
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"If we seriously consider solving the problems of Haitian immigration to the United States, we should first look at the unresolved issues or causes: trauma of colonization, poverty, illiteracy, violence, linguistic violence, political violence, identity crisis,and religious violence, among other things."
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