> I was wondering recently if it would be interesting to argue that forcibly teaching children a globally useless language for the sake of pleasing the adults who arbitrarily want it saved is a weak form of child abuse.
Actually, killing the language and the culture of a child because it is "useless globally" is cultural genocide.
And it has happened way too much.
Now for people conditioned to think that "evolution" should be applied to human matters, culture, this might not seem much.
But go read the experiences of smaller cultures oppressed and eliminated by "global" or local mightier forces, and you can plainly see it's a different kind of holocaust.
I want ways of life to change, die and whither organically, by their own cultural momentum. Not by "global forces" and market influence. And surely not by cultural imperialism.