For these Fil-Am students, it’s high time that Tagalog be offered at the Ivy League school, despite budgetary constraints amid the Trump administration
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With Tagalog as the fourth most spoken primary language in the United States, the students think it only makes sense that it is included as one of the dozens of language classes offered at the school. Many of the signatories of the campaign are Filipinos, Tagalog speakers, or Filipinos who never learned to speak Tagalog.
While GISPs had been done, the campaign leads felt that there was too much burden on the students if Tagalog language classes were to continue this way. This is why they restarted the petition in their most recent semester. Theodoropoulos, on the other hand, grew up in the Philippines learning both Tagalog and English, but leaned more comfortably towards English. Her American father preferred an English-speaking household.
For Theodoropoulos, offering Tagalog at Brown is an important form of reparation for the US’ colonial sins.“We recognize the importance of language in decolonizing and reclaiming our culture. Under American colonization…. American teachers, many of whom were educated at Ivy League colleges like Brown, actively forbade Filipino students from speaking Tagalog, Cebuano, Bikol, or other Philippine languages,” the petition read.
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