Comments on: Why it’s important to use Indigenous languages in health communication

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By: G

Thu, 08 Oct 2020 11:18:29 +0000

Thank you, Gregory and Herlinda, for delivering such an informative and useful article. Thanks to your information, it is more evident to me how unprivileged and disequality the Indigenous people inhabiting in deprived regions, particularly in San Miguel Tenango, have to encounter with healthcare services during the aftermath of the COVID-19. In this state of mind, I am in the same vein with you that the Mexican government should implement some viable strategies to alleviate the insufficient bilingual resources of healthcare services for the dweller in not only San Miguel Tenango but also in other regions. This is primarily because language is supposed to be the tool to unify people not widen the inequity gap.

By: Gregory Haimovich

Gregory Haimovich — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 10:59:48 +0000

Thank you! The paper is going to be published very soon as far as I know.
I wouldn’t say that in our case the indigenous population is somehow “forced” to use the traditional medicine, because there is still a kind of medical pluralism existing in Tenango. Indigenous medicinal knowledge and practices are not so vigorous as before, but with certain issues many people still prefer to go to traditional healers than to the clinic.

By: Gegentuul

Gegentuul — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 22:59:24 +0000

Hope I can get to read the longer version on Multilingua soon!
I read about how Nahuatl associate honorifics with the tradition/us and reversely Spanish address terms with rudeness/them. Given such iconised linkage it must be more important to understand this and many other seemingly minute cultural differences and perceptions.
Probably the intimidating experience in hospitals also force indigenous people to resort to the traditional local doctors and healers in many places.