Wade Davis : Dreams from endangered cultures

Wade Davis·TED2003  (transcript)
Dreams from endangered cultures
Summary
I think that this must be the oldest but the most difficult story in the TED talk that I've ever read. The story had really profound content that people was completely forgetting. People must think that indigenous people also live somewhere happily because humans are able to adapt to changes and the world becomes more convenient. And then one famous book had announced, the author was told in TED also, that the era is now changing like the Maasai ethnic group started having a mobile phone. For the Maasai ethnic group, telling Maasai cultures seems to be one of the jobs to get money now. Is telling cultures a job?

The speaker tells us that there are more big problems. Justly, it's what I've written at the beginning. People passively accepted and they are now accepting destruction.

Why a lot of cultures had been endangered is that the truth is not wars and technological innovations but people actively endorsed or passively accepted the massive destruction of both biological and cultural diversity in the planet. It’s power and domination and it obviously has led to a crisis of a diverse way.

Quote from the story. The world deserves to exist in a diverse way. We have to find a way to live in a truly multicultural, pluralistic world where all of the wisdom of all peoples can contribute to collective well-being.

The hope is that being endangered cultures is a dream, however, when we will wake up from this dream one day, we must forget that there are other possibilities completely.

Words in this story
cultures /noun/ the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively.
Indigenous people
Indigenous /noun/ originating or occurring naturally in a particular place; native.
pluralistic /adj/ diversity of different ideas or people or a diverse one.
endorse /verb/ declare one's public approval or support of.