Ghettoria Nation Decides:Minority Group Demands Language Recognition.

Ghettoria Nation Decides:Minority Group Demands Language Recognition.

The Issue.
A group several thousands strong hailing from a remote, isolated corner of Ghettoria Nation, is staging a massive demonstration on the front steps of your capitol. They demand that their local dialect be recognized, as an official language.

The Debate.

Thomas Broadside, your Minister of Culture, has nothing but disdain for the demonstrators.

"The language of Ghettoria Nation is as important to our national identity as
our history is. A truly erudite individual uses perfect grammar and refuses to
speak as those ruffians do."

Your Finance Minister is quick to chime in as well,

"If business is required to print every road sign, instruction manual, and
fast-food wrapper in two languages, it would increase everybody's overhead. That
means higher prices for the person in the street."

Falala Li, a radical opposition member who seems to tag along to every demonstration she can find, has her own proposal.

"The language barrier is keeping us all apart. What Ghettoria Nation needs is a
new identity defined by a new language that we can all agree on. That's unity
without favoritism."

The Government Position

"Smarker, but ee's gone blongie 'round the clonger! Trandy in the blang warked a
newtie on the Cheebers, quaff me a duggle if it's brine. Sorky, hang our trandy
high!"

says Alexei Mombota, speaking for the demonstrators, in an apparently rousing response that draws a cascade of cheers. After a few uncomfortable minutes with a professional translator, you find the speaker said,

"I respectfully disagree with the Minister. Multilingualism has brought
stability to richly-cultured nations such as Brancaland; indeed, I challenge you
to provide a single counterexample. I encourage this government to adopt a
policy of multilingualism throughout Ghettoria Nation!"

This is the position your government is preparing to adopt.

John McLaine. from Ghettoria.