Monday, April 11, 2011

The return of national pride and the Arabic language (إنتقام التنين الجزء الثالث)

Ever since people started expressing themselves on social media, English has been the main language. People would always choose setting their status in English even if their English is not that good completely shunning Arabic as it was out of fashion and not trendy enough to be used, I believe this was associated with the alienation most people felt back then, how they felt they didn't belong to Egypt and how it doesn't represent them, choosing English distanced you from it, it was a subtle statement that you aren't a part of Egypt.

Lately and after Jan25, I noticed this slow but steady transition to Arabic, people are using Arabic in Arabic letters to express themselves, Arabic is trendy all over again, I personally believe that this is related to the restored national pride after Jan25, people believe in Egypt again, and want to use the country's language rather than a neutral language such as bad English, I'm not surprised by the fact that the people are now engaged and interested in Egypt I'm however really interested in the pace Arabic is spreading by on social media. This is one of the indirect results of Jan25 revolution, its one of these side effects that you can use to know that Egypt changed to the better. Regardless to what happens now, Egyptians will make it better, after all its their country, they use the language after all right?

I'm proud.

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