From: pcs_mbei@gallua.gallaudet.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african
Subject: Re: CAMEROON: Bilingualism and Cameroon's Future...ex
Date: 27 Jan 93 22:33:51 GMT
Organization: Gallaudet University

In article <C1H6Fx.Enr@gabriel.keele.ac.uk>, csa33@seq1.keele.ac.uk (H.S. Nwana) writes:
> From article <Jan.25.21.49.56.1993.1598@occlusal.rutgers.edu>, by shemlon@occlusal.rutgers.edu (Shiyghan Shemlon):
>> In article <16B60109C2.UC475653@mizzou1.missouri.edu>, UC475653@mizzou1.missouri.edu writes:
>>> Dear Shemlon,
>>> do anglophones really feel inferior? This is news to me. 
>>
>>> MY DEAR FELLOW CITIZENS, SISTERS AND BROTHERS. HELLO TO ALL !
>>> BEFORE ANY ATTEMPT TO ANSWER WHAT HAS BEEN WRITTEN SO FAR ABOUT ABOUT
>>> CAMEROON'S BILINGUALISM, AND MORE SPECIFICALLY, THE QUESTION RISEN
>>> THEREAFTER "Do "Anglophones feel inferior ?"--see, am putting quotes
>>> within quotes, know why ?-I WOULD LIKE TO CALL ON ALL OF YOU TO PUT
>>> ASIDE ANY RETALIATORY TENDENCY. LET'S NOT VIEW ANY READER OF THIS STUFF
>>> AS FOES, EVEN THOUGH WE HAVE EVIDENCE THAT THE PERSON IS ONE OF BIYA'S
>>> LIEUTENANTS. ONLY A CONSTRUCTIVE ATTITUDE WILL YIELD EXPECTED RESULTS.
>>>
>>> SECOND, TO THE AUTHOR OF THE ARTICLE ABT "ANGLOPHONES" INFERIORITY, I
>>> CALL ON SO THAT HE/SHE UNMASK HIMSELF/HERSELF (AS BRO SHEIYGHAN HAS
>>> PREVIOUSLY ASKED.
>>> 
>>> Do "Anglophones" feel inferior ?"
>>> My ANSWER IS NO AND YES.
>>>
>>> LET ME EXPLAIN. OR JUST, LET ME ASK YOU. WOULD YOU LIKE TO TELL ME/US
>>> HOW THE COMMON "Francophone" THINK OF CAMEROON ESTABLISHMENT ? HOW COMMON
>>> CAMEROONIANS ARE TREATED ? NO MATTER WTHETHER THEY ARE "ANGLOPHONES OR
>>> "FRANCOPHONES." ARE WE IMPLYING THAT ALL THE "FRANCOPHONES" SUPPORT
>>> YAOUNDI'S KINGS POLICIES ? I DO NOT THINK THAT FRANCOPHONES ARE PRIVILGED
>>> IN GENERAL AS ONE MAY THINK, EVEN THOUGH THE PEOPLE WHO ARE IN CONTROL OF
>>> THE GOV'T MAKE IT APPEAR LIKE THAT.
>>> IT IS SOME KIND OF "FAIRE CROIRE." YES, MAKE BELIEVE TO BETTER FOOL.
>>> YACINTH HAS TOLD HIS STORY. SOME FRANCOPHONES MIGHT TELL SIMILAR STORIES.
>>> I TOLD STEPHEN THAT I WROTE A TEST AT SONEL DOUALA, AND DURING THE ORAL
>>> SESSION, THEN CHEF DE PERSONNEL (I JUST FORGET HIS NAME A GUY FROM GAROUA)
>>> BLUNTLY ASKED ME: "HOW WILL YOU USE A TELEPHONE ?" (I AM DEAF FOR UR INFO).
>>> I WAS DENIED THE JOB. HAD I BEEN AN "ANGLOPHONE, I COULD HAVE HURRILY
>>> CONCLUDED IT IS BECAUSE I AM AN "ANGLOPHONE." MANY STUDENTS ("FRANCOPHONES" 
>>> PLEASE) WERE DENIED GOV'T SCHOLARSHIPS, WHEREAS UNDESERVING ONES WERE SENT
>>> TO FRANCE, GERMANY, ENGLAND, USA, ETC BECUSE THEY HAVE SOMEONE IN THE
>>> GOV'T. THE FACT IS THAT THE GOV'T IN CAMEROON IS TOO ELITIST. YOUR FATHER
>>> IS A MINISTER, OR WHATEVER, HE WILL DO WHATEVER HE CAN SO THAT YOU BECOME
>>> "QUELQU'UN," SOMEONE OUT OF TOUCH. HE DOESN'T PAY ANY IMPORT TAXES WHEN
>>> HE IMPORTS HIS MERCEDES 450 FROM GERMANY, HE USES GOV'T MONEY TO INVEST IN
>>> BUSINESS, OR FILL HIS ACCOUNT IN SWITZERLAND. YOU WILL DO THE SAME.
>>> 
>>> YES "ANGLOPHONES" FEEL INFERIOR. BECAUSE AS YACINTH (?) SAID, THEY ARE
>>> CONDITIONED TO THINK THAT WAY. BUT DO ALL THINK THAT WAY ? NO. BECAUSE NOT
>>> ALL ACCEPT THAT "PROCESS" (CONDITIONING). WE CAN'T CATCH IDEAS LIKE A
>>> PLAGUE ! DO YOU KNOW HOW DUALA PEOPLE TREAT THE OTHER CAMEROONIANS ?
>>> 
>>> PLS, LET'S FOCUS ON BUILDING AN EQUITABLE CAMEROON !!!
>>> BACK TO U TMW.

Poppi
===== 
> Of course, YES!
> 
> I want to STRONGLY agree with Shemlon here.  
> 
> The point is even if anglophones do not feel inferior (I don't), THEY ARE OR
> WILL BE MADE TO FEEL INFERIOR. I know some who speak French better than
> francophones but they still get a rough deal. 
> 
> I was given a rough deal driving to Yaounde once without saying a word
> because my number plate bore 'NW'. Do I need to continue?
> 
> Read some psychology my friend. If you are treated like a dog long enough, 
> you start believing you are one sooner or later. Similarly, in anglophones 
> are MADE TO FEEL INFERIOR, the consequence is they may soon believe that 
> they are. This process is called CONDITIONING. The fact that this experiment has
> been going on for 20 years (since 1972) only makes this more plausible.
> 
> You see knowing that you have a problem is already half-way to solving it.
> But not knowing that a problem exists is nothing but a recipe for disaster.
> 
> I say this because may of our leaders including Biya and co. think this
> way. Then they wonder why the country erupts in front of their very eyes!
> 
> Hyacinth Sama Nwana.
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