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Les variétés du français existent ; on refuse juste de les nommer
Le français est une langue de contact, de métissage, pas de pureté immaculée. Reconnaître ses variétés n’est pas seulement une question linguistique : c’est un enjeu social, politique et postcolonial.
Cairo's New Museum Is Gorgeous. It's Also a Double Standard.
Decontextualized and rebranded as “universal heritage,” they were implanted in foreign galleries with a narrative that insisted they somehow belonged to everyone, and therefore to no one. This argument resurfaced most loudly whenever Egypt demanded the return of major objects: the Rosetta Stone from the British Museum, the bust of Nefertiti from Berlin’s Neues Museum. The defense was always the same: these institutions claimed to serve a global audience, and insisted that “developing countries”...