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There are seemingly a growing trend of "First Nations" coming together and advocating the revival of their ancient culture, language in particular. But a closer look, and one can not miss the obvious - most of these "First Nation" advocates are white. This mostly happens in places outside of Africa, but Africa has fallen victim too of this trend - Egypt, Morocco etc. The people advocating for language revival and studying indigenous languages are mostly of European descend, and it makes one wonder what they stand to gain by revival languages(and cultures) they wanted to destroy so badly?
Clyde Winters Member # 10129
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This is just a case of Linguists trying to make a name for themselves by recovering dying languages.
Autshumato Member # 22722
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quote:Originally posted by Clyde Winters: This is just a case of Linguists trying to make a name for themselves by recovering dying languages.
I agree, but there might be more to it. Some might do it to make a name for themselves but with whites there's always something more. Like, most of the people learning these dying languages are white children, and in the future their children will learn this language and not before long they adopt the the entire culture etc. claiming indigenous status. This is happening all over the world.
the lioness, Member # 17353
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quote:Originally posted by Autshumato: [QB] There are seemingly a growing trend of "First Nations" coming together and advocating the revival of their ancient culture, language in particular. But a closer look, and one can not miss the obvious - most of these "First Nation" advocates are white.
do you have any evidence, links to articles showing this?
Autshumato Member # 22722
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@Lioness, the evidence is all over the internet.
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