Noam Chomsky in Cardiff

http://cardiffian.jomec.co.uk/video/noam-chomsky-cardiff

An interview with Noam Chomsky ahead of his talk in Cardiff entitled "The Current Crises in the Middle East"

By Nicola Hebden and Mike Griffiths

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Chomsky
• Cardiff
• devolution
• bilingualism
• libya
• tunisia
• egypt
• mubarak
• ben ali
• gaddafi
• catalan
• basque
• philosophy
• politics
• linguistics

[inkstersco]

Eye-shadowy whiney interviewer.

[tokotokotoko3]

Great questions. Thanks for the upload.

[nwdls]

When the interviewer asks a question using such a loaded term as 'forced bilingualism', might she not do well to consider where the power or 'force' in language politics actually resides?

Clue: it's not usually with the minority language...

[nicdafis]

@MrOranj yes, because people were forced to watch S4C, sometimes at gunpoint.

(It's ok, hating Welsh speakers isn't real racism. Break a leg.)

[MrOranj]

@quixoticquisling for years in wales we had s4c instead of c4. you could say that was an attempt to force it.

[gimlithepimp88]

great question! thank you for the video

[MrOranj]

saw him at st davids hall. where did you film this, in Chapter? pretty noisy ;)

[quixoticquisling]

Where's the force in "forced bilingualism"?

Thanks for the upload.

[Jonsebire79]

Cheers for uploading this, great supplement to the talk that followed, which was really interesting. Especially given what he was saying about Turkey, the Arab league and the No-Fly Zone over Libya and the news that has been breaking this afternoon about just that.