Endangered Cultures

   Hello, my name is Alina and I want to talk about Endangered cultures: is it important to preserve them in the era of globalization? Should we save Dying cultures? Let’s take a closer look. According to Shauna Gutierrez, “It’s important not just to be involved in your culture and what’s going on in your world. It’s niceto see other cultures and things you’re not used to.” (Gutierrez, 15 years old) Although endangered cultures are often seen as costly to protect, with poor sanitary practices, and are over-commercialized, they are also knowledgeable, healthy, and traditional, and we can learn a lot from them.
   Endangered tribes are well aware.” When culture disappears, we lose this invaluable knowledge.”(Endangered cultures and animals in their lives). Each culture has unique knowledge. Based on this knowledge, we can come up with or invent something that will help humanity. After getting acquainted with the diet and traditions, we can learn a lot about the lives of these people and their technologies. And if a civilization still exists, we can learn a lot from it and its inhabitants. For example, how they fight diseases, how they get food, and why they observe these traditions. Destruction of indigenous cultures leads to healthier lifestyles. The unprecedented level of chronic non-communicable diseases is prompting calls to return to the diet of our ancestors to restore the lost nutrients and lifestyle.” The growth of the industrial model of agriculture has largely contributed to the fact that people stopped paying attention to the food on their plates,” says Sarah Somian, a nutritionist from France. According to experts, many traditional and unprocessed foods are consumed by rural communities. In addition, to get or grow food, you need to put in a lot of effort. Because of this, it is rare to meet a complete or physically ill person in a disappearing culture. The result can be summed up in such a way that endangered cultures are engaged not only win physical activity for food extraction but also in eating more correctly and healthier than we do.
   Similarly, according to the Government’s Federal Ministry of Health, the incidence rates among indigenous peoples and Inuit groups in Canada are five times higher than the national average. Endangered crops have poor health practices. “Indigenous peoples face disproportionately high levels of maternal and infant mortality, malnutrition, cardiovascular diseases, and other infectious diseases such as malaria and tuberculosis.”. Due to the poor medical education of the population, serious diseases cannot be cured. But we could help them with our knowledge in exchange for theirs. After all, maybe in some disappearing culture, they know how to cure a disease, the method of which we don’t even guess yet. Thanks to the exchange of knowledge, we could expand our common horizons.                  Disappearing cultures are traditional. If you do not preserve traditions and do not honor your ancestors, it will be easy for you to lose national traits. Although it’s not very noticeable, traditions are very important. Each culture or family has its traditions, of which each person becomes a unique part. It is also important that we remember the origins of some traditions, for example, this is how we celebrate Christmas every year remembering our ancestors. Thanks to traditions and holidays, we do not lose ourselves. Korowai is one of the great examples of a disappearing tribe that still uses traditions and teaches new skills. Some say that this tribe will disappear in the next 100 years.                                        The Korowai tribe, which lives in southeastern Indonesia, still has a tradition of
cannibalism. However, what makes this tribe interesting is something else: its members live exclusively in tree houses. Korowai live in trees because they think that with the onset of darkness on earth, they can be attacked by the walking dead or witches. The epoch consists of a series of events that took place while living in several houses, which took turns replacing each other. Cows usually die before reaching middle age, due to completely undeveloped medicine. Now the tribe has about 3,000 members. Until the 1970s, when anthropologists came and began to study them, the Korowai did not even know that there were other people in the world. But in recent decades, the younger Korowai have already moved to settlements. Soon only the old members of the tribe will remain on the trees. Their culture is expected to disappear within the next generation.
   Disappearing cultures are those unique people who preserve the traditions of their ancestors. is also necessary to talk about the languages of endangered cultures, for example, the Cherokee language. This language is under threat of extinction, and it is not the only language that is threatened by it: “In the last century alone, about 400 languages have become extinct” (Department of Economic and Social Affairs of Indigenous Peoples) Without a language, it is easier for a disappearing culture to become extinct.
   I hope to change the world with my speech and show my opinion that it is necessary to protect endangered cultures, and not harm them by interfering in their lives. As a result, I believe that we must preserve the disappearing cultures, but do everything possible so that they do not become overly commercialized and do not lose their knowledge and traditions. Because it is the most valuable thing in culture