Keeping people in a zoo is more disagreeable to me. This liberal idea of keeping tribal cultural of any kind around is incredibly disturbing. What does convers

Keeping people in a zoo is more disagreeable to me. This liberal idea of keeping tribal cultural of any kind around is incredibly disturbing. What does conversion of people to a western system of beliefs have to do with keeping people in a zoo? No one said anything about keeping people there; what I take issue with is the coerced or forced conversion of people. We should not be using the communities poorest children for instance as repositories of language. I don't think anyone implied that, I have no idea how you've extrapolated that idea from the statements made. As a rich, educated person I would never want my child to learn a dead language. Even Latin with it's ivory status. Their future will be hard enough. I fail to see what your socioeconomic status has to do with this conversation. Regardless, "dead" languages are not at issue here. Even if they were, understanding languages that are no longer in common use is important in understanding the past of humanity. I only object to the active discouragement of learning. Learning for the sake of gaining knowledge itself seems like a reasonably admirable trait.