Asklemmy

I'm not sure if this even counts but I'm from Cornwall, which at one point was a separate and distinct culture from England, but hasn't been for hundreds of years. But once it had it's own language, and has been recognised as being culturally distinct by the UK government and the EU.

It doesn't really impact me in any big way, especially since I don't even live in the UK anymore. I know a handful of words and phrases in Cornish and there's been a bit of a movement in the last few years to revive it somewhat (it's on some road signs and things like that), but generally the rest of the UK doesn't care, and if you talk about it to anyone outside of Cornwall they'll usually just make fun of you.

I'm more of the "99% assimilated" kind, interested in learning what didn't go down to me in more natural way.

Well, my paternal line ancestors are from a group of villages, naturally wiped out in , the amount of people with roots from the same place on the whole planet is maybe just a bit more than the amount of <"titular" nation> living there.

The dialect is dead (there are some traits of it and examples documented).

Every time I abstractly or not talk about that with most people, I encounter "international law" bullshit, something about "recognized borders" and "rule of law" or simply approval of how it is and general attitude as if I were the problem and not <"titular" nation's state>.

Yes, of course that place doesn't belong to that state and any kind of violence is justified against it and its supporters, anytime, anyplace. A lot of people having nothing to do with that state feel indignation hearing\reading about that, towards me.

Or my side, which is supposedly doing not so bad at preserving its culture, which has its own state, only that state sucks and most of the organizations about that ethnicity suck, because they serve that state.

So I almost feel as if that state and its works replacing the perception of that culture I like were a continuation of genocide sometimes.

Well, I'm just from a west euporean village, but I still feel like I could answer your question a little.

Our parents decided not to teach us the local dialect. So now I don't understand a lot of people in my village, including my grandparents. Also I feel things like shanties are a dying breed.

I've been thinking of buying a book that was written in my local dialect in order to get closer to my roots.

I feel like our parents decided to look forward and made us a part of that.

People from the cities still comment on my accent. And to me they sound like they have a stuffed nose.

Personally I think that this is how culture works, and we are currently living in an exciting one, and that's ok. I also believe a higher power still has access to all those forgotten people, so it doesn't bother me. After all isn't time just an illusion?

intellectual pursuits combined with recent-ish DNA test revealed to me that i'm from a very recently dead culture (american yaqui & tarahumara) whose very few aware decedents have been fighting tooth-and-nail to re-cultivate it by patterning themselves after their nearest cousins (mexican yaqui & tarahumara) along with a recent recognition from the american government for the pascua reservation in arizona.

they were literally wiped out by the pogroms carried out by colonial settlers in the american southwestern united states during the 19th and early 20th centuries and it was merely the imaginary line on the map called the mexican border that allowed anything from the culture to survive at all.

if it weren't for people who rejected colonialist narrative of indigenous people happily becoming mestizos (or americans with Cherokee princess great grandma's); there would be nothing but a fringe belief and, if it weren't for DNA tests that heavily bolsters it, that fringe belief would continue to wane into nothingness.

you'd think that 2/3rds of your DNA being tied to a group of people and their genocide occurring less than 2 generations ago would ensure that something of that cultural inheritance would survive, but I'm living & breathing proof that the colonial narrative is MUCH more powerful than any heritage as the older generations of my family continue to strenuously reject both the science and the lore of their true roots.

I’m Jewish and I feel meh. There was always a lot of pressure to continue practicing Judaism throughout my life because our numbers are so small and we’re the butt end of conspiracy theories and discrimination from all walks of life and have been for thousands of years.

I’m not religious and don’t believe in any sort of god so I guess I’m responsible for killing my religion and culture I guess. I can relate to the sense of camaraderie in finding another person with the same shared lived experiences in the wild, but I don’t know how much I can relate to the tribes you mentioned.

I’m not concerned as much about my culture dying out because life and everything in it is ultimate meaningless :)

What sucks the most is that nobody takes it seriously. The average American flat out supports genocide.

We are marching our way towards a white supremacist genocide of the entire planet and people are actively cheering it on.

It sucks. I’m autistic, and I spilled sweat and blood to learn my culture. Now my culture is being systematically uprooted and destroyed, and the period during which my brain could learn culture has passed.

So now I’m the human detritus cast along the way on the path to progress. And it sucks. And the fact that my sacrifice and that of millions of other people is necessary to make room for this new culture, makes me hate this new culture.

It enrages me. I actively deny the settler culture; but damned if my denial changes anything. When their process is done, what I consider my culture will be a lowercase-n nothing compared to the capital-N Nothing™ that settler culture is. And it feels like not enough of my skinfolk have enough steel in their spines to fight anymore. Black Capitalism and liberal misleaders in the Black Congressional Caucus have ruined us, and our own reactionaries have made a mockery of Black radicalism.

It's a sorry fuckin state of affairs; and honestly what informs my interactions with other minority cultures-- because 9 of 10, the same will happen to them if they don't resist the same way, and I'll be called everything from a fool to a traitor for aligning with them instead of the settlers who have their boot on my neck.

I'm smart and I'm mostly fine with my minority dying out. It's definitely sad that in 50 years people will look at things my people created and will not understand any of it but then again, it's a natural process. I'm sure our art will somehow influence their art and in a way it will live on.