tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-165639588321305546.post6322829222275392798..comments2016-08-25T08:34:18.410-07:00Comments on Language Banditry: Being Victimized by Language Banditry - Reasons to feel Indignanteruhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04442002631938956097noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-165639588321305546.post-52654332120658788092016-08-25T08:34:18.410-07:002016-08-25T08:34:18.410-07:00Great material.
I have seen some ruthless languag...Great material.<br /><br />I have seen some ruthless language rapings, and even been subjected to many attempts myself. Most times I was able to make an escape.<br /><br />What is galling to me is that the majority of foreigners that go to Japan or other Asian countries do not have an interest in the local language, and have no intention of learning it. Therefore they either welcome speaking English with these people, or otherwise have no choice. So the galling part is that these language rapists will still aggressively seek out those people learning the local language and attempt to language rape them, even though they surely know that doing this is harmful to that student's language acquisition! Like the sick rapist that has consensual sexual options, the language rapist enjoys the forced option above all.<br /><br />Gaslighting is among the most vile of language rapist tools. Pretending not to understand in order to force the conversation back to English. I have had this attempted on me in languages in which I am at an advanced level, for which I do translations at work, and so on. So this gaslighting does not work on me but I could see this causing a newer language student abandoning his or her studies and thus becoming the perfect victim for the language rapist parasite.<br /><br />I think that the most important thing in combating language rape is to call it out. Identify what is happening at that moment right in front of everyone, as calmly and without butthurt as possible. By identifying the language raping elephant in the room, you disempower it. The language rapist relies on your sense of civility in order to carry out his or her activities. Author and sociologist John Murray Cuddihy termed this dynamic "the ordeal of civility".<br /><br />I realize that I have been using the term "language rapist/rape" rather than "language bandit/banditry", and I acknowledge that rape is a loaded word. However, to shy from saying language rape is to ignore the seriousness of this phenomenon. For that reason I say "language rape" without apology.<br /><br />I am looking forward to reading more of your work, in particular language rape counter-measures.Matt@Occidentalism.orghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02395220402283030311noreply@blogger.com