Through this week's class, I learned about language and culture。
First of all, we have discussed the differences between culture and identity, culture and race, culture and nation, so as to understand how culture defines a person's identity, how race and nation are divided, and how we can quickly understand this culture, and what kind of connection exists between these. Culture includes all of this, so we can further understand that our culture exists in our clothing, food, housing and transportation, including our thinking and behavior. Of course, all of these are superficial. This is just the tip of the iceberg, and there are many connotations in it, even related to the survival of culture. Thus, we find that language is the cornerstone of cultural preservation. Because people use language to record and communicate. Only with language and culture can we develop. Of course, without culture, we will not have language, because people need to understand this culture when learning language. We also know from here that there are more than 7000 languages in the world, and we know less than half of them. Most of them are indigenous languages, which are on the verge of extinction, or even have perished, so we began to explore whether we need to protect their existence and let their culture survive. We learned that the United Nations is working to protect them, so we began to explore the practices of the United Nations and ways to improve them, so we learned that we need to protect endangered cultures and languages, so that human civilization can survive forever, The existence of indigenous languages can help us explore history and help us develop in the future.
Overall，this is my summary of this week. We have learned about the relationship between culture and language, why we should protect indigenous languages, and whether it is beneficial and helpful to them