Commentary:
Culture & Language: The Global Village of the Flat World Needs
Polygot Leaders Why Does a
True Citizen of the World Need to Speak
both English and French languages? by Jean-François Moreau, M.D., A.I.H.P. Honorary Fellow of the Emeritus Professor & Honorary
Chairman FOREWORD I take a lot of interest in the for a
opened by the LinkedIn group entitled UNESCO’S FRIENDS[1] and actively fed by the
American John Daly[2],
an experienced international officer retired in Washington D.C. I often react until the beginning of This paper is an opportunity to thank INTRODUCTION The global village of the flat world is going
into severely violent turmoil. Veterans like me are starting to think on the
actual risk of Third World War. Battlefields in the area from Governmental Organizations such as UNESCO
and WHO are once again demonstrating their impotence to prevent clashes
peacefully. UNESCO is being weakened by the crisis induced by Obama’s refusal
to pay the Do the African military forces acting in Most of the persisting Caucasian
chauvinistic trends result from a long antagonist story between the French and
the British starting in the XIV Century with the “War of 100 Years”, the
legendary French defeat of Azincourt in 1415 and Joan of Arc’s saga ending in
1432. Before, the French and the British Christianities were allied during the
Crusades against Muslims starting in 1099. Curiously the Turkish Empire
following the end of the Christian Byzantine Empire in the mid-XV Century and
expanding until the Nowadays, chauvinisms are fed with the
human disasters induced by the hard economical and financial war dominated by
the American supremacy allied with the international capitalists of the global
village of the flat world. The debate on the best mean to favor peace opposes
those who trust in an increase in educational programs illuminating the brains
and the hearts toward those who believe the vulgumpecus
must/should remain ignorant and be manipulated by basic programs .broadcasted
by multimedia tools. Modern wars have become cultural and psychological. Thus
common languages must be understood by both potential winners and losers. In
Asia and especially in WITH OR WITHER THE FRENCH LANGUAGE? At any level of the processes whether
they are legally and ethically correct or they aim to manipulate and/or to
corrupt by perverse means, communicating media and mediators should/must use
the most adequate language save to be misunderstood then ineffective. Both
English and French languages are continentally spoken in the bipartite African
Continent. Serious changes toward the democratic spread-out of the English
language similar to that was done by the Scandinavians after WW2 - but not yet
completed in Latin Europe! -could be achieved successfully through several
decades long in Yes, there's no doubt the French language
MUST remain the second international langue of UNO. Let me try to demonstrate
that postulate since I'm a humanist citizen of the World who was born in Neither UNESCO nor Sahel should excite
neither Americanophobia nor Francophobia. But, do people understand or even
know from what both diseases come from. I've become severely critical since I
know how complex the world is. Why do democratic and dictatorial national
governments come to term with each others? There're big almost monstrous
conflicts of interest even between allied nations practicing so-called
democracy. Why? The Nobel Committee for Peace -
Norwegians, indeed - awarded both French politicians who featured the
constitutions of the prominent international Governmental Institutions (GO)
following both World Wars (WW) of the XX Century. Léon
Bourgeois was awarded in
1920 for the constitution and the by-laws of the Société des Nations (SDN)
located in Geneva, Switzerland. SDN failed to stop Stalin and Hitler's+Mussolini's
dictatorships and the involvement of Japan with Axis in WW2 either. It has been
evidenced that the pacifist US ambassador in London, Joseph Kennedy, supported
Hitler's propaganda even after Anschluss in 1938 because he was more against
communism than Nazism if one of these ideologies had to contaminate the USA
when the Europeans were obviously giving democracy up definitely. René
Cassin was awarded in
1968 because he headed the group of jurists who wrote the Declaration of the
Human Rights adopted in 1946 by the new Organization of the United Nations
(UNO). It has been evidenced that Franklin Delano Roosevelt was Francophobic;
France got a permanent seat and a veto's right at the Security Council because
of Churchill's will, supported by Stalin only. Still at that time the French
language was an obvious international language, notably because of the victory
of the French and allied armies in 1918; let me remember that NATO's SHAPE was
located near Paris until Charles de Gaulle in 1966 withdrew the French Republic
out of SHAPE whose headquarter was dislocated from Saint-Germain-en-Laye to
Brussels, capital of Belgium where the French language is widely majority aside
the non diplomatic Flemish one. Meanwhile Geneva has hosted the World
Organisation of Health (WHO), Paris has hosted the United Nation for Education,
Science and Culture Organisation (UNESCO); United Nations Children's Fund
(UNICEF), highly influenced by the Centre international de l'Enfance created by
Robert Debré, famous French and international leader of pediatrics, has been
headquartered in New York, NY, USA. France had lost its pride and prestige
because of its inexplicable defeat in June 1940 followed by the invasion of the
German Army. It has been recently evidenced that the former British King Edward
VIII, ambiguously Germanophile Duke of Windsor who was under American Wallis
Simpson’s influence, his pro-Nazi wife, was actually Hitler's spy! Charles de
Gaulle knew that pro-Nazi heritage of a strange Anglo-Saxon politics after WW1
aiming both to weaken Western Europe and to stop communist USSR’s expanding
ideology. The Pearl Harbor’s attack by the Japanese
air forces followed by the Axis’ invasion of USSR broke the perverse American
neutrality face to the German-Soviet Pact signed in August 1939[9]. President Roosevelt had
to enter WW2. He ordered in November 1942 the landing of the American Army in
Morocco (operation Torch headed by Patton) in order to fire Rommel’s Afrika
Korps out of Africa then to reach Italy. By the way, he promised to the
nationalists to support the independence of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. To
weakening Europe… but not to ruining it because of the risk of communist
expanding in Western Europe have kept the earnest duplex component of the
international American politics going on. PART 2: FROM 1940 TO NOWADAYS That duplex American European politics
has fed and spoiled the Americanophobia expressed on the French walls by the
slogan “US go home!”. After WW2, the French Republic lost Indochina after a
long and unpopular war; Pierre Mendès-France and Ho-Chi-Minh signed Geneva's
Agreements in 1954 (21 July). Unfortunately, the Algerian war started in the
same year 1954 on November 1st under the same government. Mendès-France had
time to sign the peaceful independence of Tunisia. But, as he had become a
symbol of colonial "abandon", later on he lost the elections; then he
couldn’t make a comeback in January 1956 at the head of are shaped government
starting a smooth process for an independent Algeria discussed with the most
moderate leaders, such as Fehrat Abbas. At the contrary, winner socialist Guy
Mollet decided to increase the war process and the French army won the
so-called “battle of Algiers” in 1957. The American President Dwight Eisenhower
– in agreement with Nikita Khrushchev and Molotov of
USSR who had to face a revolt in Hungary in the mean time - vetoed the
occupation of the canal of Suez by the Franco-British commandos in the fall
1956; even defeated by Israel’s forces in the mean time, Rais Gabal Abdel
Nasser of Egypt could prolong an even stronger support to the guerilla in
Algeria. Edgar Faure had time to give Morocco a peaceful independence in 1957. In May 1958, Charles de Gaulle after
tough riots in Algiers took the power with the support of the activists of
"Algérie Française". The French Rightists were thinking of a Great
France "From Dunkerque to Tamanrasset" because of the discovery of
oil in Sahara and of uranium in Niger. Those minds were paranoid because if the
reasoning was attractively conceivable, the fundamentals were wrong: the
independence was already decided at the highest levels of the international
politics supported by the Americans and the British… and the Soviets! I state
that because I was informed of that certitude during a lunch with two French
officials on the boat I took in July 1958 in Marseille to Algiers. I spent a
trimester in the Algerian bush as a doctor and I soon felt the losing game had
to be over as soon as possible. Unfortunately, humans are blind whenever and
wherever they live, Caucasians have no lessons of wisdom to provide to the
world, their enemies either. The Algerian riots allowed Charles de
Gaulle to take the power in Paris but he was trapped in a difficult politics
because of the strong and stupid resistance of the Franco-Algerian
“Pieds-noirs” and their metropolitan supporters. For many years France had become schizophrenic
and there would be an actual risk of civil war in the early 1960ies. Soon at
the contrary, De Gaulle gave the French Black African Colonies their
independence peacefully. They remained most often strongly linked with the
French Republic at the origin of the famous even controversial "Françafrique".
The French interests were saved except in French Guinea headed by a Marxist
leader, Sekou Toure, who gave it the name of Mali. After Mobutu fired Lumumba
in 1960 and had become the leader of the newly independent former Belgian Congo
- for a while termed Zaire, now République démocratique du Congo) - the French
presidents have become the godfather of the huge francophone Africa. Till now
most of their leaders, often submitted for freemasonry influence, are almost exclusive French speakers. Although
the practice of the English language is booming in the whole Africa, it will
take decades before the French has become a dead language. PART 3 – From 1773 to now, conclusions in
favor of polyglot education The winner superimposes his/her language
to the loser. There were only five/four official languages in the Caucasian
world since the so-called Pericles’ Century[10] starting in 500 b.c.: (1)
The American language two centuries (2) after the English language succeeded
(3) the French language that supplanted (4) Latin under King François 1er after
the Romans had digested (5) the Greek language in the early first Millennium
after Christ. France lost the so-called
“Guerre de Sept Ans”… Then, the Traité de Versailles in 1763 – 250th
anniversary in 2013! – recognized English as the second official international
language. France lost its Northern American territories from Canada to the Gulf
of Mexico along the Mississippi River… Thus, the American official language is
the heritage of the English language even in Quebec and Louisiana. The
planetary British Empire was transformed into Commonwealth after WW2 but, in
1945, victorious allied Americans and British had put the English language at
the imperial rank of the almost monopolistic diplomatic language. English has
been becoming the regular language of the whole European Community at the
expense of the “Francophonissimes”. Even declining nowadays, the French
language still has at least a centenary future because of the too recent
independence of the collapsed French colonial empire at the end of the II Millenary.
According to official statistics there are more than 300,000,000 French-speaking (francophone) humans all over
the world. That’s a rather low percentage of the billionaire humanity but
that’s enough to justify the French language to be the second international language
of the United Nation Organization. In
Europe the French language is spoken by 60,000,000 people in France where
UNESCO in Paris and the European Parliament in Strasbourg are located;
4,300,000 people live in Belgium where the European Commission (EC) and NATO’s
Headquarter are located in Brussels; 1,400,000 people live in Switzerland where
WHO, Red Cross, International Olympic Committee… are hosted in Geneva or Lausanne; there are
430,000 people in Luxemburg hosting the European Parliament and some EC
institutions. Out of Europe, Africa from Maghreb to
Congo is the largest reservoir of French-speaking people. Subsidiary
consequences of the African events since the end of WW2 encompass waves of
emigrants worldwide. There was a large diaspora of French Jews from independent
Algeria and Tunisia to Israel in the 60ies. I met many Moroccans in the USA.
Dr. Elias Zerhouni, born in Algeria, is one of the most famous American
scientists. The French language even declining remains spoken in Western Asia
mostly by the Copts and the elite trained in local French school. There are plentiful kinds of English
dialects and slangs such as globish. Spaniard languages including Castellano,
Spanglish and Portuguese have a more promising future than the Frenglish
because of the crowds of Latino-Americans. Would German, Italian, Japanese languages
suffer from their condition to having been the languages of WW2 losers without
strong colonial heritages underneath? German is currently spoken in Central
Europe. The huge Italian diaspora all over the world remains faithful to their
mother language. One might already trust in the glorious future of mandarin and
Hindi in the whole world more obvious than the Russian or Arab languages
hampered by their native non roman alphabetic scripts. The follow-up of the American language
merely evidences the ambivalence of its origin. De Gaulle was supposed to state
ironically it is a French patois. Today the semantics is highly influenced by
Latinism. A lot of new words and idioms used in cultural and scientific fields
look similar to those inherited from Latin rooting directly or through the Old
French; Greek roots are less commonly inspiring the Americans who prefer super-
than hyper-, astro- than cosmo-… For instance disruptive innovation,
immunosuppressive infections, stagflation, maintenance, opportunity, virtual
reality… might be translated directly into the French language… not without
some risks of mistakes related with obsolescent definitions, such as actually
meaning really in English and currently in French. Early Latin studying
prepares wisely the young brains to learn quicker and easier French and/or
Spanish and/or Italian and/or American languages. To conclude, the brightest future belongs
to the brains well-prepared to speak and write fluently three major Western
languages (mandatory English + French +
Spanish). The more languages one speaks
the easier pathway to be polyglot. According to their sub-specializations they
should add German, Italian, Russian, Mandarin, Japanese, Arabic… The risk humanity has have to face when
the global village develops in a flat world peopled up to 10 billion
inhabitants is to be sooner or later divided into main areas using varied kinds
of esoteric alphabet scripts without English subtitles. At the moment, unless
they are single adventurers of the extreme, educators and businessmen as well
as tourists can travel everywhere because they’re secured by their regular
means of guidance. But, what would it
happen if human blocks develop under antagonist tensions? All larynxes aren’t prepared
to speak Cantonese even other Asian dialects if infants weren’t educated to
pronounce nasal sounds! All eyes and grey matter cells aren’t able to
understand ideograms without a long learning of their fundamentals. Even the
Arabic script is disruptive for a Westerner because it starts on the left side
of the line. UNESCO should prepare the new age to the
linguistic education of the planetary populations in order pacific humans may
communicate peacefully. I wonder this
would be more proficient than the noisy gun shooting musical art of war
provided by the breaking news on TV channels. Let me reproduce the last lines
of the recent interview of an applicant of Djibouti to the succession of the
Bulgarian Director General of UNESCO in the fall 2013[11]: Question
by a journalist to Mr. Rachad Farah, an applicant of Djibouti to the succession
of the Bulgarian Director General of UNESCO in the fall 2013: UNESCO is facing
a financial crisis because of the withdrawal of US funds over the admittance of
Palestine to its membership. Can you resolve this financial problem and raise
the funds that are needed? Answer
by Rachad Farah: UNESCO is not a financial institution. If this withdrawal of
funds by the United States had happened to the Islamic Bank, the World Bank or
the IMF, it would be a catastrophe because these are financial organisations.
UNESCO is not. It is promoting projects in education, culture and science. If
we have projects within UNESCO, and if we are capable of bringing projects to
the donors and to the banks such as the Islamic Bank and the World Bank, then
I'm sure we can get the money to finance them. The director-general and the
member states must sit down and discuss what will be the next step and request
the United States to restore its contribution. It has to be an appeal from
member states to the United States: Washington has to understand that the
member states are eager to keep the United States on board. I believe that
equipped with the vision of the Obama administration, the United States will go
along with what we are requesting. I commented that paper on the forum
opened by John Daly[12][13]. The crisis has been
induced by the vote of a majority of Nations to the admission of a Palestinian
representative at the UNESCO. The World Bank is under an American presidency,
then it can't act against Obama's politics or so. Moreover the Islamic Bank
can't refuse an American diktat superimposed by the Jewish lobby. The
International Monetary Fund (IMF)at the moment is under a non-American
leadership (French Christine Lagarde). Does the nomination of the next DG of
UNESCO means "validation of the hold-up of UNESCO by the USA"? As a citizen of the world as well as
French citizen, I can't accept that the headquarters of UNESCO in Paris is
strangled by an American boycott any longer. The problem is the incompetence
and the corruption of the institution but the disease must be treated on place,
in Paris, not in Washington DC or in NYC. We're all poisoned by that never-ending
problem of Israel and Palestinian coexistence. That's enough. I visited Israel
twice since the beginning of the first intifada and I trained plenty of
Middle-East doctors. I know Afghanistan and Iran are the Eastern walls against
the future invasive rush of Chinese and/or Indian legions. I know oil fields
justify the presence of the US troops in the Middle-East. I know the American
support to Islamic integrists and jihadists is based upon both the American
desire to manipulate the Europeans in Africa and to secure the Western World
against the “Yellow Fever” after the “Red” one. The sooner UNESCO covers the continental
and multi-continental conflicting cultural problems publicly in Paris, the
better. Djibouti is a French-speaking capital and I've no doubt Rachad Farah
has an impressive background of a competent professional. But is he supposed to
be a puppet in charge of the conservative management of sick institutions like
UNESCO and WHO? Will we be looking forward to developing efficient and
intensive educational programs? Or shall we observe the colonization of an
organization by a representative of even more cynical and newly pro-slavery
ultraliberal sharks? A symptom? Creationism is taking more and
more influence in the Islamic populations of Maghreb. Educated people know how
stupid that regressive approach is. However, creationists are inflating in the
USA too. The history of humanity since its origin provides warnings on an
actual risk for the dominating civilizations having risen up to highly
sophisticated encyclopedic knowledge. The current so-called Western
civilization is reaching an extraordinary capacity to disrupt conventional
fundamentals regulating the societies such as the biological sexual
discrimination based upon the morganian genetics by a new research based on
stem cells manipulations by nanotechnologies applied to the human reproduction
to prolonged ageing and inducing new worrisome sociologies. Our elitist
societies are vulnerable because their intellectual products are inaccessible
to primary conservatisms. Barbarians are wild killers when their crowds are
liberated by the excitation of their basic instincts uncontrolled by a
well-prepared education respecting the human rights as they were written by
René Cassin and his team and adopted by the UNO. Thirst and/or hunger and/or
sex when they aren’t satisfied enough to enable a socially livable condition
make humans wilder than the wildest animals in the jungle because humans think
and react according to the strengths of the speeches and the weapons their
chiefs proffer to their desperate motivation to live or die. [2]http://www.jfma.fr/CHAIRE-MUSEOLOGIE- and HOSPITALIERE.htmlhttp://www.linkedin.com/groups/CHAIRE-MUSÉOLOGIE-HOSPITALIÈRE-4753024?trk=myg_ugrp_ovr [3]http://www.scidev.net/en/science-and-innovation-policy/features/q-a-rachad-farah-outlines-his-vision-for-unesco-1.html [4]http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=12346398&authType=name&authToken=Chi7&goback=.gmr_120234.amf_120234_12346398&trk=anetppl_profil [9]From Pearl Harbor to Stalingrad: Germany and Its Allies in 1942 (pp. 282-292) AktenzurdeutschenAuswartigenPolitik 1918-1945.Serie E: 1941-1945. Band I: 12 Dezember 1941 bis 28 Februar 1942.Akten zurdeutschenAuswartigenPolitik 1918-1945. Serie E: 1941-1945. Band II: 1 Marzbis 15 Juni 1942.Akten zurdeutschenAuswartigenPolitik 1918-1945. Serie E: 1941-1945. Band III: 16 Junibis 30 September 1942.Akten zurdeutschenAuswartigenPolitik 1918-1945. Serie E: 1941-1945. Band IV: 1 Oktoberbis 31 Dezember 1942. Review by: Geoffrey Warner Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2615652 [10]Pericles and Hippocrates in Greece, Confucius in China and Buddhah in Indialived durant the Vth Century beforeJesus-Christ. [11]http://www.scidev.net/en/science-and-innovation-policy/features/q-a-rachad-farah-outlines-his-vision-for-unesco-1.html [ BWW Society Home Page ] © 2013 The Bibliotheque: World Wide Society |