SDLC 105 - Learning Journal #7

[Dalila Softic]

In my opinion, the greatest loss is the loss of culture. Not only do you lose a form of expression in a culture, but you lose the ability to engage with that culture in the future. For example, you can't contextualize artifacts from that culture or understand remaining texts. Furthermore, this loss impacts direct descendants from that culture more than others. By losing their culture and their ability to engage with it, descendants can feel as if they lost a piece of themselves. This is exactly why many people learn languages because they have family members or descendants who speak those languages. People often learn languages in order to feel closer to family members and closer to their own backgrounds. I can say that was the motivation for me to improve my Croatian and German.