Helping projects and companies make consistent, responsible choices to remove harmful language
Imagine standing on a dock in Sulawesi, to your right, a fisherman shouts in Bugis. Behind you, children laugh in Bahasa Indonesia, in the market an old woman bargains in Javanese, while a boatman from Maluku sings in his mother tongue. This is Indonesia, one country but a thousand voices.
As part of the #BlackLivesMatter protests of Summer 2020, I looked to the IETF to recirculate a draft on racist terminology in technical standards that I had co-authored in 2019.
When most people think of Mexico, the first thing that comes to mind is Spanish, the language of daily life, government, education and the media. And yes, Spanish is dominant, spoken by the vast majority of the country’s 120 million people. But here’s the story that often goes untold: Mexico is not just a Spanish-speaking nation. It is a country woven together by a tapestry of over 68 national languages and more than 350 linguistic variants, each one carrying centuries of history, tradition, and identity ( source ).