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I always speak English with all my friends who also speak (and are by origin) Russian because we live in England and find it easier since it's the language we use more. Plus everything else is in English so it's just extra effort to find words to talk about it in Russian, like translating a movie quote instead of just quoting it.
It's not there to upset you by being "global", it's a surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.
Kinda sad to forgo your own language like that but it is what it is and you do you.
It's not sad to me.
Who cares, it's just sounds common on a piece of land I happened to be born on. To care about heritage/nation/state and most of all the creepy cult of "culture" and it's ensuing framework of bioessentialism, transphobia, homophobia, hard r racism and the sheer anti-intellectualism that comes through the simplicity of stereotypes, it's all stupid jingoist nationalist shit that doesn't matter, it's all run by the rich to fuck the poor.
Be your own person, carve your own path, don't live or die for 'the man', make your allies based on reason and material circumstances, not spooks of crumbling empires.
Live, love and die for your reasons, and fight those who try to make it any other way for you or others. Don't expect a sermon and don't long for one. That's real nihilsm for ya.
Just suck to lose diversity.
We need diversity of perspectives, of views, of ways of life and priorities. Languages are tools, and yes we should preserve them and their history and evolution for what it tells us, but it's not surprising that in the long-term, people simply drift towards the most useful tool.
It's one of the symptoms of the modern world, where people lose touch with their own identity, language included. Just sad but what can you do
It's a good thing, imo. People shouldn't grasp at things like which nation-states they were born in and allegiance to them, such things only create a docile nationalist populace that empower warmongers like Putin etc.
Just because I was born Russian doesn't mean I have to be a bloodlusting orc beating my chest in jingoist fervor, that culture is just some shit I saw, it has no power over me, and no effect on me, I'm wholly independent from it. This is of course - a good thing.
People should craft their own identities, choose their own families and make connections based on reason and material circumstances or love. Not anything superficial like borders or language.
It's quite unfortunate that neurotypicals seems to struggle with being independent thinkers so much and instead resort to religion/fascism for identity because a flag says they must be one way or a computer tells them or their social circle etc. So many of them do things and they don't even know why, they play games others were into, as if thats somehow a reason, they want what others want, etc.
Now thats if anything - is sad, and i wonder how we fix this and force them to craft their own identities.
It doesn't sound like you're crafting your own identity but rather just assimilating into the majority. Also, identity and culture are separate from nationalism, it sounds pretty sketchy to say minorities couldn't be proud of their identities, culture and language.
I can't argue against what something "sounds like", only what is, and the fact here is that culture and identity formed as a member of an ethnic group or someone born in a nation-state is all fundamentally about nationalist pride and connections with others under a nationalist context, it's all about judging people based on where they're from and categorising on assumptions, just because someone isn't beating their chest about revanchist urges to reclaim lost territory from past centuries doesn't mean they don't think along the same lines and that's the real majority, and me thinking in different terms to that already makes me an outlier from not just my birthplace, but every group. As pompous as it sounds this is a sincere belief.
I mean you are being literally assimilated by the majority and losing your original identity. It's sad and borderline racist to think minorities can't be proud of their heritage, culture and language without it being a negatively thing.
If you are fine with what's happening then you do you, but painting all pride in such things as bad, shame on you.
I am literally not being assimilated by the majority of any kind, I don't know where you're getting this from? Just because I don't identify with being Russian doesn't mean I identify with being British.
All of those things are just nation states created in bloody battles, borders carved onto maps and now recorded in papers for use by violence monopolists. I identify with no nationality or national identity of any kind, I am my own person and i will mish and mash cultural artifacts as I find them to my liking.
I understand that there are many people who cannot escape their ethnic identity due to systemic racism and I am firmly anti-racist for that very reason amongst many more, but even then, it's their material circumstances that create identity, not voodoo spooks of "heritage" or "culture" or any other irrational nonsense, all of that is aesthetics that should be appropriated when useful to sway to the cause, nothing more.
No gods, no masters. We must cooperate because it benefits us, not because of borders or what food you eat or anything else.
If anything, shame on you: talking down my experience because it doesn't fit the current westerner conception of progressive thinking. Your motivation comes from a good place I'm sure, but it's not nice to shout down others with different viewpoints or experiences.