Instead of a mother-tongue or fatherland, Esperantists have a language that is their collective child. And they act like proud parents: Don’t dare tell them they speak a fake tongue.
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What nativism did for the Brexit vote, a Trumpian elixir of bigotry, misogyny, and anti-immigrant paranoia might soon do for us in what we nostalgically refer to as the United States.