Re:Making the Tibetan language a first-class citizen in the ...
by Retric on Sunday October 13, 2024 @04:38PM
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There’s an expiration date on being able to do anything on this kind of conquest and forceful relocations.
I’m personally more concerned with China’s genocide of the Uyghur because you can’t undo such atrocities after a population is gone as happened to many Native American populations. There’s a few relatively tiny “Native American” populations that are still genetically distinct, but a wide range of cultures have been effectively erased with only fragments remaining. Hundreds of dead languages we don’t even know enough about to classify let alone stories.
Imagine if everything from Spain to Japan was referenced as Eurasian culture and thrown into basically the same bucket.
I’m personally more concerned with China’s genocide of the Uyghur because you can’t undo such atrocities after a population is gone as happened to many Native American populations. There’s a few relatively tiny “Native American” populations that are still genetically distinct, but a wide range of cultures have been effectively erased with only fragments remaining. Hundreds of dead languages we don’t even know enough about to classify let alone stories.
Imagine if everything from Spain to Japan was referenced as Eurasian culture and thrown into basically the same bucket.