diminish in Britain.

As David Crystal, Professor of Linguistics at Cambridge, said, “Language is a sensitive point to focus on if you want to keep people down”. The West Pakistani government tried to do this in post-Partition East Pakistan, by banning the propagation of Bengali. It is because of the sacrifice of a number of students in 1952, who were killed by Pakistani military as they protested their right to use Bengali, that UNESCO commemorates February 21st as International Mother Languages day. In Bangladesh this day is commemorated as Basha Andolon Dibosh (Language Revolution Day), and many historians believe that the Language Revolution later lead to the war for independence from Pakistan in 1971. Thus, a Bangladeshi’s mother tongue is an integral part of his cultural and national identity. When Bangladeshis abandon their mother tongue they also abandon their history, and by doing this they keep themselves ‘down’.
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in a spate of civil unrest in which far-right activists, football hooligans and known racists have fought running battles with Asian youths. The leadership insists they are not racist and just want to "peacefully protest against militant Islam"

Yet at EDL events, skinheads have raised Nazi salutes and other EDL supporters have chanted racist slogans such as "I hate P***s more than you". One protest in Luton in May 2009 ended with scores of people attacking Asian businesses, smashing cars and threatening passersby.
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prices going from left to right. On the right side, the Arabic menu board acted as a mirrored reflection of the English menu; prices and sizes came first on the left hand side, then the names of the coffees on the right. This is because Arabic is read from right to left.

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She said that India had lost an irreplaceable part of its heritage. Languages in the Andamans are thought to originate from Africa. Some may be 70,000 years old.
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