Endangered Cultures and Languages

 We are living in a world full of ignorance, with a big lack of knowledge and in a certain way superficial.  Humans are more concerned about living their life day by day and looking forward at what the future brings, but is that everything that really matters? Where is all the history going? How did we get in this world? What happened to our past generations and the culture they had? how did they survived?., those are a few questions that come to my mind. As Phil borges said, “Every two weeks, an elder goes to the grave carrying the last spoken word of that culture. An entire philosophy, a body of knowledge about the natural world that had been empirically gleaned over centuries, goes away.”, WE are letting the world swallow all the possibilities we have to learn about past cultures and become a richer society in knowledge, and how are we doing that? by not teaching our kids the importance of knowing about history, by not be concerned about other societies and cultures, by being in a way selfish with the world, because we all are created the same way and we all come to the world  as human beings, as one!, so we do have to care about the importance of all this things and we have to teach the world what really matters.

 having a diversity of languages it's a way of identification; every culture have their diferences, not every culture thinks, eats, sleeps, raises their children, lives and feels the same way, so according to prominent French linguist Claude Hagege as it's said in the article "THE DEATH OF LANGUAGE": "What we lose is essentially an enormous cultural heritage, ... It's also the way they express their humour, their love, their life. It is a testimony of human communities which is extremely precious, because it expresses what other communities than ours in the modern industrialized world are able to express.", language is more than just words and sounds, language is every culture's life,how they express and how they feel identified.

         
So even though most of the people think that having one language would make us one society, losing every language and having just one for every human being, would mean losing the history, all the cultures in the world, the heritance our ancestors gave us and of course our past, so for me personally, having a cultural diversity is important for the world and destroying it wouldn't make us one, would make us ignorants.