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[Khuutra]

Slimebeast said:

Khuutra said:

Slimebeast said:

But who says it's always a good thing?

I don't want my race, heritage and culture to just disappear in a few decades.

If you are a Greek person and walk around at the Acropolis in Athens and watch the Parthenon, an amazing temple built almost 2,500 years ago, you are watching your own culture and heritage in absoute wonder.

The Indians of America can't do that and in the Middle East there's hardly any people left who can feel attached to the historical ruins there because all those peoples and cultures are mixed and the original civilizations extinct.

Modern Greece and the Greece that birthed the Parthenon are not the same culture. The Ancient Greeks as we commonly think of them are effectively extinct.

You don't want your culture to disappear in a few decades?

Too bad. Welcome to the human condition. Everybody's on board, and there's no leaving this train.

Woo woo.

Of course they're not the same culture but modern Greeks are the direct descendants to ancient Greeks. They even have the same language.

Besides there are nations who actively protect their culture. France and Japan for example and I respect them for that. It's not a force of nature to be mixed in a melting pot á la America.

Modern Greek is not the same language as ancient Greek. Being descended from a culture does not mean you have the same culture. That continuity is an illusion. All cultures change and go away, regardless of if you identify with them or not.

Actively protecting their culture, trying to freeze the march of progress on a cultural level, doesn't work and lliterally can't work over time. It's like trying to fix disembowelment with a band-aid. You make a lot of noise and show about this band-aid, but everyone remembers what you were like before your last culturla revolution or last brush with an imperial outside power, and everyone knows you aren't the same.

The position you are arguing is not defensible. No culture escapes change. Thhere is nothing to be done for it. Identifying with your past, with the line of that change, is great. Its wonderful. That's part of what celebrating yoru heritage is. But it also necessitates celebrating the outside cultural influences which have affected your current state (like the fact that Japan is an industrial nation at all).