Should people be allowed to use their language abroad?

The people are fighting over whether a village can have a bilingual name. There are many foreigners moving to Austria; should German language education be compulsory or should they be able to use their own language even in a foreign country?

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People & Blogs

Tags:

• Žvabek
• Schwabegg
• Slovenian
• minority
• Carinthia
• language
• barriers
• Austria
• dilemma
• freedom
• free2choose
• f2c/europe

[fgtaurus]

Entschuldigung schon, aber wir leben in Österreich, und nicht in Slowenien und ich glaube in Österreich spricht man Deutsch - bis auf eine Minderheit im Süden Kärntens, die Kärntner-Slowenen. Wenn die sich nicht an uns Österreichern anpassen können, dann sollen sie wieder zurück nach Slowenien gehen. Ich verstehe nicht, dass man dazu auch noch zwei-sprachige Ortstafeln aufstellen muss, nur damit die slowenische Minderheit sich "wie zu Hause fühlt".

[googlephi]

From my perspective, framing this as "majority rights versus minority rights" is unnecessarily divisive. You should always have the right to speak in the register, dialect, and language of your own preference. To the extent that you can choose how you speak, the consequences of your choice are your own responsibility. The real question is- do you have reasonable access to the education you desire, or is someone denying you the choice?

[Markehslo]

You have to understand that Carinthia's population till 1945 was around 60% Sloveens and 40% Germans. There was also a plebiscite in 1921 for this teritory. However, People of Carinthia at that time decided to rather stay part of Austria then join the "Serbian Empire" of Yugoslavia. Today in Caranthia lives around 50.000 Sloveens, also some of my relatives in Beljak.

[sonic070]

Well i think that is normal if you move to austria that you will respect their way of living learn german language...But for minority it is something total diferent Slovenians live in austria since 6century and germans since 8. Austrians should not be acting to them so discriminatory as they do now. If you want to be respected you must know to respect others.

[Zuelinda]

Es sollte bloß klar sein, dass ohne Erlernen der jeweiligen Mehrheitssprache eine Integration nicht möglich ist. Man darf sich dann nicht wundern wenn man ausgestoßen wird.

[nadador64]

Nel mio posto di lavoro, un impiegato è reprimanded se conversano in una lingua straniera. Questo è giusto. Gli immigranti può parlare la loro madrelingua in privato o con i compatrioti. Ci sono dei diritti fondamentali che sono comune in tutte le nazioni, ma l'insistenza su parlare la sua madrelingua nella sua nazione adottiva non è uno di questi privilegi.