{"id":25689,"date":"2007-04-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-03T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dejusticia.org\/tell-me-something-and-i-will-tell-you-where-youre-from\/"},"modified":"2017-04-11T07:21:47","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T12:21:47","slug":"tell-me-something-and-i-will-tell-you-where-youre-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/tell-me-something-and-i-will-tell-you-where-youre-from\/","title":{"rendered":"Tell me something and I will tell you where you&#8217;re from"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Cada quien habla como es; los buenos hablan virtudes; los malos, maldades&#8221;. Eso dec\u00eda Sol\u00f3n, el sabio griego. Hoy en d\u00eda se dice algo similar: &#8220;Dime c\u00f3mo hablas y te dir\u00e9 qui\u00e9n eres&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>En ambos casos, la idea es la misma: hablar bien es una muestra de cultura y quien es culto es virtuoso. Ahora que el tema de la lengua est\u00e1 de moda, vale la pena pensar un poco m\u00e1s en esas frases y en el significado social del lenguaje correcto.<\/p>\n<p>En la escuela primaria nos hablaron del espa\u00f1ol como una lengua prodigiosa que heredamos de la madre patria. De all\u00ed nos viene la imagen del idioma como un bien, no solo inagotable e invaluable -como el aire-, sino repartido de manera gratuita y democr\u00e1tica.<\/p>\n<p>Sin embargo, esa imagen desconoce que el espa\u00f1ol, como todas las lenguas, es tambi\u00e9n un mecanismo eficaz para mantener la desigualdad social. La manera como hablamos -el acento, las entonaciones, los dichos, los errores- m\u00e1s que un rasgo folcl\u00f3rico, es algo que nos clasifica socialmente. &#8220;La gente no habla como habla porque pertenece a una clase social -dec\u00eda Pierre Bourdieu-, m\u00e1s bien pertenece a esa clase social porque habla como habla&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Basta o\u00edr decir algo a una persona para conocer su origen social. Eso lo comprobamos en las conversaciones telef\u00f3nicas. Cuando recibimos una llamada de alguien que no conocemos, solo necesitamos de unos cuantos segundos para ubicar al desconocido en el estrato social correspondiente. Las secretarias son expertas en eso. M\u00e1s a\u00fan, esa suele ser la funci\u00f3n que sus jefes les imponen: detectar la condici\u00f3n social de quien est\u00e1 al otro lado de la l\u00ednea, para saber si le abren o cierran la puerta. Muchas veces les basta incluso con el nombre de la persona. A pesar de no haber estudiado sociolog\u00eda, saben que no es un azar si los Pablos, las Juanas y las Andreas son nombres que abundan en la clase alta, mientras que los Alexanders, los Maicols y las Jennifers son comunes entre las personas de clase baja.<\/p>\n<p>Pero los efectos discriminatorios de la lengua pueden ser atenuados a trav\u00e9s de un sistema de educaci\u00f3n p\u00fablica de buena calidad; un sistema al que acudan todas las clases sociales. All\u00ed, los alumnos no solo terminan hablando parecido, sino pensando parecido. La educaci\u00f3n que tenemos en Colombia, en cambio, est\u00e1 destinada a perpetuar las clases sociales. Cada estrato estudia por aparte, nunca se encuentra con los dem\u00e1s, recibe un tipo de formaci\u00f3n particular, adquiere una manera propia de expresarse, comete un mismo tipo de errores cuando habla y, por todo ello, termina pensando parecido.<\/p>\n<p>No es extra\u00f1o que despu\u00e9s, cuando los ni\u00f1os llegan a ser adultos, tengan tantas dificultades para creer en la democracia, valorar lo p\u00fablico y ponerse de acuerdo.<\/p>\n<p>No pongo en duda la bondad del uso correcto del lenguaje. Lo que digo es que, cuando se habla de la lengua, no s\u00f3lo el tema de la correcci\u00f3n es importante. Tambi\u00e9n lo es el de la discriminaci\u00f3n social que resulta de su uso, sobre todo en una sociedad desigual como la nuestra. No s\u00f3lo hay que lograr que la gente hable bien, tambi\u00e9n hay que buscar que el lenguaje correcto sea un bien universal y no una carta de identificaci\u00f3n de clase, un obst\u00e1culo para la movilidad social.<\/p>\n<p>Es una l\u00e1stima que lo que antes, en la \u00e9poca de Sol\u00f3n, era una identificaci\u00f3n del buen hablante con el virtuoso, hoy sea una identificaci\u00f3n del buen hablante con los miembros de clase alta. Eso no estar\u00eda tan mal si no fuera porque sabemos muy bien que los ricos no siempre son virtuosos, ni siempre hablan bien.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is suffice to hear someone speak to know their social origin.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1022],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","subcategory-studying-the-protection-of-rigths","medium-el-tiempo-en","post-scope-aaa-not-blog"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tell me something and I will tell you where you&#039;re from - Dejusticia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/tell-me-something-and-i-will-tell-you-where-youre-from\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tell me something and I will tell you where you&#039;re from\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It is suffice to hear someone speak to know their social origin.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/tell-me-something-and-i-will-tell-you-where-youre-from\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Dejusticia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Dejusticia\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2007-04-03T05:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2017-04-11T12:21:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Mauricio Garc\u00eda Villegas\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@dejusticia\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@dejusticia\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Mauricio Garc\u00eda Villegas\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/tell-me-something-and-i-will-tell-you-where-youre-from\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/tell-me-something-and-i-will-tell-you-where-youre-from\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Mauricio Garc\u00eda Villegas\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/#\/schema\/person\/d5933ad4c269c4b6c2acbf717ceeb0d6\"},\"headline\":\"Tell me something and I will tell you where you&#8217;re from\",\"datePublished\":\"2007-04-03T05:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-04-11T12:21:47+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/tell-me-something-and-i-will-tell-you-where-youre-from\/\"},\"wordCount\":661,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/#organization\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en\",\"copyrightYear\":\"2007\",\"copyrightHolder\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/#organization\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/tell-me-something-and-i-will-tell-you-where-youre-from\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/tell-me-something-and-i-will-tell-you-where-youre-from\/\",\"name\":\"Tell me something and I will tell you where you're from - 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