Matias Barmat - Loanwords: cultural appropriation or cultural enhancement?

There are four main reasons of colonization of languages and cultures: territorial conquest, religious imposition, economic interests, and cultural industry. Throughout history, some cultures become minority while others become dominant, and this process is not alien to languages: those who speak minority languages are still forced to learn mainstream cultures and mainstream languages due to their belonging to nation-states and due to pressures of the global market. Within this framework, several questions arise: can we express ourselves with the same accuracy with or without loanwords? Will be able those minority cultures ti survive despite of all the loanwords they have entered? The mainstream cultures have left, for better or for worse, a permanent footprint that we can learn and we must learn without losing our authenticity.
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