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this post was submitted on 20 Feb 2024
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I don't agree with this network access take. A lot of endangered cultures are simply being assimilated.
I was in a casual quiz in Hong Kong recently and one of the questions required us to know a language with less than 100 speakers. The default answer the quizzers had expected was Macanese Patuá. That sort of regional dialect existed in such a restricted set of conditions and between two different pressures to remove it (between Cantonese and Portuguese), that globalization simply drowned it out.
Assimilation is death, especially when you're being forcibly assimilated into a null value.
True, I suppose it depends on the country. In my country, many Papuans live in remote areas where it's hard to access basic necessities like medicine, let alone the internet.