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.
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