[sad news] The University of Texas at Austin (UT) is planning to eliminate its Department of Germanic Studies by August 15, 2026.
They're going to replace it with BBC Studies
>They're going to replace it with BBC Studies
>>221446336Sort of telling how much these people harp about diversity and multiculturalism but don't even care about stuff like this fading away.
>>221446372i can't tell what you're bitching about but you're probably wrong
>>221446384>filtered by a single sentence
academix only want to study indigenous brown folx
Europeans don't even speak their native languages anymore, it's all English. I'm studying German right now, and I have to accept the fact that if I go to Germany, nobody will speak German with me. So it is effectively pointless.
>>221446336There was a mural in a town right outside of Chicago that had a murals on walls dedicated to German heritage and showed depictions of German immigrants and their contributions to America --- it was very beautiful and had been there for at least 40 years. I came back to see it, and it had been completely destroyed.
>>221446444holy truth bomberson
The right keeps on gutting the humanities and then wondering why the left controls our culture
>>221446336>I don’t feel so good Uncle Adol-
>>221446372what does germany have to do with diversity
>>221446336to be replaced by hindi studies to reflect the shifting demographics
>>221446336whats with the AI infographics
>>221447681Only AI cares about German genocide.
>>221446336Oh, no!Anyway....
>>221446991Are you serious or b8ing?
>>221446444Yeah that's why you should be learning spanish instead, the beaners will seize any opportunity to speak their language
>>221446336>unique German Texan dialectWere they teaching people to speak German in an American accent?
>>221446444english is a germanic language
>>221446336That's an AI picture, isn't it? >>221446444We won't speak german with you because we are not your "study buddies". I don't want to wait 5 minutes for you to garble up some broken German just to ultimately form a inconsequential question.>>221448902Iirc it has some old influences from the Palatinate. That is something really neat about all those non-english languages the immigrants preserved in the USA - they are in some aspects frozen in time.
