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I am just trying not to fight Brett Copeland's overt prejudices and covert
insults against the euskaldunak (a marginalised minority in their own
country),
with more prejudice and insults.

Instead, I'll try to give some examples about the issue that started all
this: cinema, language, basqueness. I'll do so bringing not localist
examples, but global ones.

Let's take, for instance, the two biggest film industries of the world: A)
that of the US, and B) that of India.

A) Ever heard about the Oscars? Well, there is a prize for the best movie
in a language other than english. Australian films fight for the "Best
film" award. Canadian films in English also. Quebecois films in French fall
into the other category.

B) In India, there are clear and obvious "language cinemas". There are
Kannada films with Kannada directors and Kannada audiences, and Tamil films
with Tamil actors and Tamil audiences who loudly enjoy the Tamil songs of
every movie... If a Tamil director rises to fame and begins filming Hindi
language films for a wider audience, his work is no longer Tamil cinema.

Now, an additional example. A modern director that is gaining some fame:
Atom Egoyan. Born in Egypt, into the Armenian diaspora. Makes
english-language films in Canada, therefore eligible for all Oscar awards
except the "foreign" one.
Are his films Armenian cinema? They are as Armenian as Alex de la Iglesia's
films are Basque.

The examples about the "Russian" quality of Dr. Zhivago and others
previously given by Mikel Morris were also clear enough to be understood in
the University of Reno.

I hope that, if he wishes, Mr. Copeland can say something about these
"global" examples, without making more disgusting comments about the
"purism" of the speakers of an endangered language, my mother tongue.

Luistxo