{"id":3904,"date":"2010-04-26T13:01:31","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T17:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=3904"},"modified":"2010-04-26T13:01:31","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T17:01:31","slug":"pardon-my-french","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2010\/04\/26\/pardon-my-french\/","title":{"rendered":"Pardon My French"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Worthwhile <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/25\/arts\/25abroad.html\">NYT article<\/a> on the changing position of the French language as a cultural connector:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>French is now spoken mostly by people who aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t French. More than 50 percent of them are African. French speakers are more likely to be Haitians and Canadians, Algerians and Senegalese, immigrants from Africa and Southeast Asia and the Caribbean who have settled in France, bringing their native cultures with them.<\/p>\n<p>Which raises the question: So what does French culture signify these days when there are some 200 million French speakers in the world but only 65 million are actually French? Culture in general \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and not just French culture \u00e2\u20ac\u201d has become increasingly unfixed, unstable, fragmentary and elective.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Worthwhile NYT article on the changing position of the French language as a cultural connector: French is now spoken mostly by people who aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t French. More than 50 percent of them are African. French speakers are more likely to be Haitians and Canadians, Algerians and Senegalese, immigrants from Africa and Southeast Asia and the Caribbean [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3904"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3906,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3904\/revisions\/3906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}