#saami

“We have racism in Europe, but it’s different than in America.” In many ways, yes; for example anti Romani sentiment is a more potent force in Europe than in the US (although it exists here as well) and many of the immigrant groups discriminated against are Eastern European or MENA. On the other hand though, I don’t see any evidence that Black and Afro-diaspora people are treated any better. Same for Asians. And if you get on your high horse about how the US was founded on the stolen land—not saying it isn’t—then you should probably confront your treatment of Indigenous European groups like the Saami.

pohjoissaameksi Sámi álbmotbeaivi, 

inarinsaameksi Säämi aalmugpeivi ja 

koltansaameksi Säʹmmlai meersažpeiʹvv

Hyvää saamelaisten kansallispäivää!

Catalan is the 13th most spoken language in the EU. It has more than 10 million speakers, which means it has more speakers than other languages that are already official EU languages like Maltese (530,000), Estonian (1.2 million), Latvian (1.5 million), Irish (1.6 million), Slovene (2.5 million), Lithuanian (3 million), Slovak (5 million), Finnish (5.8 million), Danish (6 million), Swedish (10 million), and Bulgarian (10 million).

Neither Galician (3 million) nor Basque (750,000) would still be the least spoken languages to be allowed in the EU representative bodies.

But even if any of them did, so what? Why do speakers of smaller languages deserve less rights than those of bigger languages? How are we supposed to feel represented by the EU Parliament when our representatives aren't even allowed to speak our language, but the dominant groups can speak theirs?