![]() Rigoberta’s embrace of Spanish highlights her willingness to use some tools belonging to the dominant, educated class, such as language, in order to give her community’s problems greater national and international visibility. For example, she chooses to recount her life story not in her native Quiché, but in Spanish, a language she had only recently learned at the time of the interview that I, Rigoberta Menchú is based on. However, despite her suspicion toward certain aspects of formal education, Rigoberta engages with it herself. Official education, she argues, tends to give a distorted vision of Indigenous life and encourage Indian pupils to abandon their ancestral customs. ![]() ![]() For Rigoberta Menchú Tum, political leaders who defend the poor in Guatemala should derive their authority not from formal education, but from the personal experience of suffering. ![]()
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