There are many cultures around the world that are suppressed by majoritarianism. They have to face challenges like forced assimilation, language discrimination and refusal to acknowledgement of their unique identity. In fact, many cultures have been identified by UNESCO, that will soon cease to exist - either that they’re vulnerable, or completely extinct. How do you, as a minority, feel, knowing that your entire identity will cease to exist in a few decades? Do you have a sense of camaraderie towards other minorities from other parts of the world, say, the Ainu people, or the Brahui pastoralist?
I’m french Canadian from my dad and native from my mom. I truly feel like most of the country would be more then happy if we disappear. They openly hate on french canadians and publicly pretend ro care about first nations but they really dont. I expect both cultures to be completly gone in a century or two, sooner maybe.
I’m a Tuluva, a minority group in the south of India. I am also a Tulu separatist for reasons mention here - I’m in agreement with most of them, but there are a few more reason I have this stance, including cultural appropriation and discrimination.
You can read about the recent efforts at digitization of my language in this article - although I’ve never met anyone who knows how to write. Maybe a few scholars are good at this? I tried to learn the abugida (the Indian equivalent of “alphabet”), but they’re pretty hard for someone like me who’s never learnt a Dravidian language before.
FWIW I love French Canadians and love the diversity and culture they add to Canadian life. I think Letterkenny gave a great example of what a singular culture it is and I really enjoyed them including them.
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no answersonly one answer, which is understandable. Many of these people don’t have access to certain technology because of their economic situation, and even when they do, their voices are so small that they get overshadowed by the majority. I’m not of a dying culture, but I am aware of the many tribes in Papua and how they’re vulnerable from Indonesia’s interference. While many of the Papuan tribes aren’t dying per se, it’s very difficult to get online opinions from (indigenous) Papuans in regards to whether their land is colonized by Indonesians, let alone from tribes that are dying.I don’t agree with this network access take. A lot of endangered cultures are simply being assimilated.
I was in a casual quiz in Hong Kong recently and one of the questions required us to know a language with less than 100 speakers. The default answer the quizzers had expected was Macanese Patuá. That sort of regional dialect existed in such a restricted set of conditions and between two different pressures to remove it (between Cantonese and Portuguese), that globalization simply drowned it out.
True, I suppose it depends on the country. In my country, many Papuans live in remote areas where it’s hard to access basic necessities like medicine, let alone the internet.
Assimilation is death, especially when you’re being forcibly assimilated into a null value.
intellectual pursuits combined with recent-ish DNA test revealed to me that i’m from a very recently dead culture (american yaqui & tarahumara) whose very few aware decedents have been fighting tooth-and-nail to re-cultivate it by patterning themselves after their nearest cousins (mexican yaqui & tarahumara) along with a recent recognition from the american government for the pascua reservation in arizona.
they were literally wiped out by the pogroms carried out by colonial settlers in the american southwestern united states during the 19th and early 20th centuries and it was merely the imaginary line on the map called the mexican border that allowed anything from the culture to survive at all.
if it weren’t for people who rejected colonialist narrative of indigenous people happily becoming mestizos (or americans with Cherokee princess great grandma’s); there would be nothing but a fringe belief and, if it weren’t for DNA tests that heavily bolsters it, that fringe belief would continue to wane into nothingness.
you’d think that 2/3rds of your DNA being tied to a group of people and their genocide occurring less than 2 generations ago would ensure that something of that cultural inheritance would survive, but I’m living & breathing proof that the colonial narrative is MUCH more powerful than any heritage as the older generations of my family continue to strenuously reject both the science and the lore of their true roots.
I’m not sure if this even counts but I’m from Cornwall, which at one point was a separate and distinct culture from England, but hasn’t been for hundreds of years. But once it had it’s own language, and has been recognised as being culturally distinct by the UK government and the EU.
It doesn’t really impact me in any big way, especially since I don’t even live in the UK anymore. I know a handful of words and phrases in Cornish and there’s been a bit of a movement in the last few years to revive it somewhat (it’s on some road signs and things like that), but generally the rest of the UK doesn’t care, and if you talk about it to anyone outside of Cornwall they’ll usually just make fun of you.
It’s nowhere close to English, that is something I would say.
I think it’s from the same root as Welsh, so that’s probably the nearest counterpart as far as I know.
I know the white republicans in the USA sure feel like they’re gonna disappear.
One of the white supremacist tropes they like to push is how white people are endangered by globalism and diversity. These people could use a little diversity that hopefully improves their intelligence. Mai Gad they are stupid.
It enrages me. I actively deny the settler culture; but damned if my denial changes anything. When their process is done, what I consider my culture will be a lowercase-n nothing compared to the capital-N Nothing™ that settler culture is. And it feels like not enough of my skinfolk have enough steel in their spines to fight anymore. Black Capitalism and liberal misleaders in the Black Congressional Caucus have ruined us, and our own reactionaries have made a mockery of Black radicalism.
It’s a sorry fuckin state of affairs; and honestly what informs my interactions with other minority cultures-- because 9 of 10, the same will happen to them if they don’t resist the same way, and I’ll be called everything from a fool to a traitor for aligning with them instead of the settlers who have their boot on my neck.
What sucks the most is that nobody takes it seriously. The average American flat out supports genocide.
We are marching our way towards a white supremacist genocide of the entire planet and people are actively cheering it on.
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