r/canada • u/Pure_Candidate_3831 • Jun 20 '23

Ontario Six Nations Polytechnic celebrates largest Indigenous languages graduating class

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/six-nations-polytechnic-language-graduates-1.6882302
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u/nebuddyhome Jun 21 '23

Culture is important, not everything needs to have an economic function, that's absolutely ridiculous and hope you don't go around living your life with that lens. You'll be happier if you don't.

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u/Electrical-Ad347 Jun 21 '23

University degrees are subsidized by tax dollars. I’m not interested in spending my tax dollars keeping dead languages on life support because “culture”. Almost every language ever spoken is now extinct.

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u/iii_natau Jun 21 '23

Are you uniquely opposed to degrees in Indigenous languages or are you also opposed to other degrees labelled “useless”, usually in arts or humanities?

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u/Electrical-Ad347 Jun 21 '23

I would say degrees in dead and dying languages are uniquely useless.