Fully explaining why the thing you’re asking for is both impossible and undesirable is a job for an anthropology thesis, but the tl;dr version is that it’s a short and straight line from your position to advocating for cultural genocide.
Go on, lecture an Irish person about cultural genocide. I so wish we had a culture but we don’t speak Irish anymore so of course we are a grey blob that nobody would recognise as distinct anymore 😪
Edit: downvote and run when “we just observe 💛” college rhetoric meets physical reality.
The reason most Americsn linguistics students equate language and culture is because a foreign language is the only different culture they’ve ever been exposed to.
Fully explaining why the thing you’re asking for is both impossible and undesirable is a job for an anthropology thesis, but the tl;dr version is that it’s a short and straight line from your position to advocating for cultural genocide.
Sure it is. Short and straight.
Go on, lecture an Irish person about cultural genocide. I so wish we had a culture but we don’t speak Irish anymore so of course we are a grey blob that nobody would recognise as distinct anymore 😪
Edit: downvote and run when “we just observe 💛” college rhetoric meets physical reality.
The reason most Americsn linguistics students equate language and culture is because a foreign language is the only different culture they’ve ever been exposed to.