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In Paris, I Get Judged on What I Speak, Not How I Look

I moved from New York back to Paris in the summer of 2020, partly to get away from the spate of anti-Asian assaults that had emerged after the Covid pandemic. The last straw was when I became the victim of a drive-by yelling: Two white guys driving past me stuck their heads out of a car window to shout a racial epithet plus the word “coronavirus”.

I thought: I tried, America. And then I started packing.

“But isn’t there just as much racism in France?” ask my U.S.-based friends, who need to believe they are living in the world’s most enlightened nation.…  Seguir leyendo »

March is the month of “La Francophonie”. It is an opportunity for all the countries that share the French language, including Canada, France and Haiti, to celebrate this great family.

We belong to one of the largest linguistic communities in the world. Today, French is spoken by more than 274 million people on all continents. This number is expected to reach 700 million by 2050. French is the second most learned foreign language in the world, after English.

French is a great language of communication. It is the fourth most common language used on the internet. Four international radio stations and six international television stations broadcast in French, reaching 243 million households.…  Seguir leyendo »

Cardinal Richelieu, the 17th century power behind the French throne, must be rolling in his grave after the stunning announcement that France is giving up the fight to keep English words out of the French language.

This sudden reversal of four centuries of French linguistic policy was issued by the minister of culture, Fleur Pellerin, who declared that France’s resistance to the incursion of English words was harming — rather than preserving — the language. “French is not in danger, and my responsibility as minister is not to erect ineffective barriers against languages but to give all our citizens the means to make it live on,” Ms.…  Seguir leyendo »

Tema: Desde enero de 2011 Francia tiene una agencia única encargada de su acción cultural en el exterior. Se llama el Institut Français.

Resumen: El British Council en el Reino Unido, el Goethe Institut en Alemania, el Instituto Cervantes en España y, desde el 1 de enero de 2011, Francia tiene su propia marca: el Institut Français. A través de esta nueva agencia, Francia ha reunido bajo el mismo techo varios operadores encargados de la acción cultural exterior. La reforma proviene del diagnóstico de que Francia pierde su influencia cultural en el mundo, tal y como escribió el periodista Donald Morrison en su artículo “En busca del tiempo perdido” (Time, noviembre de 2007).…  Seguir leyendo »