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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Haldrik" data-source="post: 8032625" data-attributes="member: 6694221">I know that the standard is high. Dont appropriate from what one doesnt understand. Dont use real cultural names inaccurately. I feel these two principles are necessary.Especially BECAUSE our ethnicities are all mixing together it is necessary to make an effort to preserve different ways of being human. Otherwise, we will soon be one global monoculture of homogenization. A dystopia. We have to preserve our diverse humanity now. Before it vanishes.All around the planet, languages and ethnic groups are going extinct, becoming assimilated into economically dominant neighboring cultures. This process of cultural genocide is historically normal. But today, the world is shrinking and communication connects us everywhere. I can walk on the beach in America talking with my friend who is also on the phone talking with her daughter in China. If our diversity goes extinct. Our human capacity to relate to humans who are beyond our own selves will go extinct forever. Our humanity will go extinct.No ethnic group is immune to this new kind of global cultural genocide.Speaking accurately about an other culture (and about ones own history) is an existential urgency. Not quite yet, but almost a life-or-death emergency.We must figure this stuff out now.How do we transmit our diversity to future generations of humans?</blockquote>