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People from a minority/dying culture, how do you feel about it? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I'm more of the "99% assimilated" kind, interested in learning what didn't go down to me in more natural way.

Well, my paternal line ancestors are from a group of villages, naturally wiped out in , the amount of people with roots from the same place on the whole planet is maybe just a bit more than the amount of <"titular" nation> living there.

The dialect is dead (there are some traits of it and examples documented).

Every time I abstractly or not talk about that with most people, I encounter "international law" bullshit, something about "recognized borders" and "rule of law" or simply approval of how it is and general attitude as if I were the problem and not <"titular" nation's state>.

Yes, of course that place doesn't belong to that state and any kind of violence is justified against it and its supporters, anytime, anyplace. A lot of people having nothing to do with that state feel indignation hearing\reading about that, towards me.

Or my side, which is supposedly doing not so bad at preserving its culture, which has its own state, only that state sucks and most of the organizations about that ethnicity suck, because they serve that state.

So I almost feel as if that state and its works replacing the perception of that culture I like were a continuation of genocide sometimes.