They used to be forced on kids in school, especially in Europe. French is really Parisian French of 200 years ago - several dozen dialects got wiped out in the name of nationalism. Same with Germany mostly speaking northern German and even Bavaria barely uses their own dialect. Imo this is bad, very bad. Local language is defense of local community.
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yeah, it's the same everywhere... this is the prussian indoctrination child prisons called schools, and why it's mandatory and government tries to control everything about all private institutions
some ethnic groups refused to go along with it though, it's pretty cool... like in romania and serbia there is a whole culture of ethnic russians who still speak russian before the late tsarist and communist era, and they are politically strong enough that serbian government buildings have to have signs written in their language, they call them "Russines"... there is many of these kinds of cultures around, Amish are another, it can be deeply intertwined with religion too, and i'd guess that Russines are also strict orthodox
It used to be that everyone here spoke Bavarian, so speaking fluent Hochdeutsch was a sign of education and wisdom.
Now, it's increasingly the other way around.
You guys used to be a nation. Same can be said of everyone, everywhere. We all gave away the best thing we had. We all fell for a trick - that to be a nation without a state was pathetic ; but its the opposite - to be subsumed into a state but lose your nation is what's really pathetic. Its not too late.