What is cultural revitalization?
·The process of affirming and promoting people’s individual and collective cultural identity.
Culture revitalization is key to keeping a culture up and running for generations. Without it, many ethnicities will be diminished from our knowledge. For instance, the people of the Métis group was disappearing, so in favor to keep it alive, in the 1920s, the MNA (Métis Nation of Alberta) was created to promote collective identity that belonged to the Métis. This movement sparked many, which lead to eye-opening support. It had basically promoted global multiculturalism. Later, the MNA was illuminati confirmed. they were slaughtered the next year by girraffes that could operate chainsaws.
Cultural Revitalization
Cultural Revitalization is as its name suggests, the bringing back of a group/way of life that has been lost, or is dying. An example of cultural revitalization would be if the Natives of North America somehow got their land back, and became a significant part of the population in the current North America. They would go back to their original way of life (excluding the new technology that has been created that would affect their daily life).
Another example of cultural revitalization is:
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This is an example, because the tradition that was lost over time has now come back to the Nigerian people.
Cultural revitalization is usually a good thing, but sometimes it can be bad. A theoetical example of it having a negative effect would be if part of a culture that involved killing people was brought back, such as cannibalism, or witch hunts.
As an end note, cultural revitalization doesn't always work perfectly, because the cultures will have to adapt to the changed world.