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What is cultural preservation?<\/h4>\nToday\u2019s world is increasingly well connected, whether that\u2019s through technology like the internet, or increased travel and fluid immigration. Where once our societies may have remained virtually unchanged for centuries, divided by oceans, mountains and rivers, today we can talk to someone on the other side of the world instantly. We can share media and ideas with ease, with every person on the planet. Which ideas get shared, which cultures dominate, can often come down to which cultures have the most power either economically or politically. When we talk about our culture and heritage, this consist of both tangible things like historical artifacts or buildings, but also intangible things like language, rituals and customs.\n\n
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Cherokee moccasins, c. 1840 – Bata Shoe Museum, Toronto<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\nCultural heritage is subject to a variety of pressures over time \u2013 any significant pressure on a population can change the cultural practices quite rapidly. For example, pressure to change or adapt to new or spreading religions, or the need to move to a new place with new languages can erase previous traditions very quickly without active effort to retain them.\n

The challenges of modernization<\/h4>\nFor the past century or so, modernization especially has created significant pressure on non-western cultures<\/a>, with the modernization paradigm assuming that industrialism and modernism constitute a liberalizing and progressive force, and so western societies provide a model that should be followed by developing natures, even in the cultural realm. This assertion is obviously subject to challenge; the assumption that the answers western culture has to give are always correct is one that can easily be proven false, but because of the power of western media and technology, it\u2019s one that can easily steamroll right over competing cultures.\n\nBetween 1950 and 2010, 230 languages went extinct, according to UNESCO<\/a>, and today, a third of the world\u2019s languages have less than 1000 speakers left, and around every two weeks another language goes extinct as it\u2019s last living speaker dies. Organizations such as Wikitongues<\/a> seek to record and preserve as many of these languages as they can with volunteers all over the world finding native speakers to have conversations on camera.\n\n