Saturday, February 11, 2012

Ok first of all, I'm really sorry for the delay, I've got no excuses, I was watching the videos and reading both of the articles that were posted on the class's blog and then I started to reflect and say to myself, what is happening is really bad for the humanity, all the cultures that don't fit in a way of giving profit for to the globalization are being erased by "the crude face of domination" as Wade Davis says, I think is really important to try to preserve this languages because it's part of the world's culture and part of the way of being of many people , as the world is getting more and more intercommunicated we are trying to reduce all the languages to one: English, I have nothing against speaking English, in fact I like to do it and I think people should learn some too, but if we keep going like this even Spanish will be wiped out of the face of earth, all the stories, all the ritual songs, all the prayers and everything that involves an specific language will be gone with it, that would be a great lose to the world.

I don’t really know how to say that deferent cultures make contribution to the society but it’s a fact that it makes the world look less gray than it is, I mean is really good to know that there still are some people that doesn’t see a tree as a pile of paper but a nature god that has to be protected, that the animals are not just pets and food but reincarnation of their ancestors, I think that the major contribution that different cultures do are not something that is a material profit the society but it make us see the world in a different way, a place where many different people coexist.
Tom Colls in his article says “In 1992 a prominent US linguist stunned the academic world by predicting that by the year 2100, 90% of the world's languages would have ceased to exist." of if at the moment around the world are being spoken 7000 of languages, that means that by 2100 there will be 6300 languages that had been wiped out of our society and if you take a language the most sure thing to happened is that the culture that speaks it would end too, Phil Borges says that in his trip to the Himalayas you couldn’t have a photo of the Dalai Lama because that is one of the quickest ways of getting in jail, but hi took some small photos of him and gave it to the people and everyone just took the photo put it on their foreheads and started to pray, that’s amazing, and if thing just disappear from our world it would lose all of it beauty, yeah that everyone speak the same language would be a great advantage for global communication but, does it worth the price of killing every culture that doesn’t speak the language? Think about it.