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banning local languages was also done by my local government around 50ish years ago. in every school. take a wild guess at where I'm from?
(no, I'm not dutch despite being on feddit.nl)
Canada, I'm guessing? We did all sorts of horrible things like that even til the 1990s to the First Nations peoples.
Taiwan actually. They banned anything other than Mandarin.
This was done in Hawaii