Disrespect for your own culture

[smmg]

there's been a number of articles on various news sites recently about cornish language revival and there's always comments like "i'm cornish and i don't care" "i live in cornwall and this isn't interesting to me" "i'm from cornwall and the cornish language is useless" etc etc. like christ it drives me insane. the absolute apathy. the disrespect/ignorance for your own language/culture/history. idk. i guess they just haven't decolonised their way of thinking but still. insanely frustrating.

i know there's a lot of english people living in cornwall who've displaced the actual cornish population (which has happened with my own cornish family members), so maybe that's a factor in it?? i.e. english people living in cornwall who just see it as a "beautiful sunny holiday retreat", or just another part of england and english culture, or whatever. but regardless, if you've moved somewhere with a minority culture i think you should also want to take interest in it at least a little bit?? especially like if you're from the place that has oppressed that minority culture for 100s of years, i think you should at least learn a bit about that culture's history and the damage that's been done to it etc.

idk. very frustrating.