Ania ti mensahek, Apo Severino? Dimo kadi madlaw a ngilngilawen ti Bannawag idiay Five Sisters, iti sidiranna a sumango iti pasdek ti Life Theatre a nagbuyaantayo idi ti maysa a pelikula ni Ronald Reagan?
Ania ti mensahek, Appo a Bangolan a kunkunada, "dagiti Adigi ti Literatura Saluyot?"
We as parents are our own enemy. We don't talk to our children in the mother language. Some parents, especially those with Tagalog, Pangasinense or Kapampangan spouses, have made Tagalog a language of the home. This is true in some households, in fact, many households in the North. Visit Baguio or Cauayan and Santiago in Isabela.
We colonized non-Ilocano lands in the North and exported the language and culture to what was then to us the New World.
We have been dominant in most of the areas in the imagined Amianan Nation.
It will no longer be so. This supremacy is being threatened. From without. From within. It is real. Very real.
The culprits? National language and education policies, among them. And the Ilocano patnengs, they who belong to the great ethno-linguistic group, in cahoots with the neo-colonizers, heirs to the colonial masters.
(Of course, as colonizers, we neither coerced nor imposed laws, ordinances and decrees. We won them by the sheer power ot the so-called demonstrative effect/syndrome.)
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