Thanks for your shared experience. Indeed, the Euro-grooming of all colonies has forced us to forget our past traditions. As you point out, this has happened to every indigenous community worldwide due to colonialism and its accompanying religions. They have been successful in conquering minds, traditions and even what we now consider appropriate.

There’re two major problems I will pull from many: one is we loose many traditions, techniques, technology, ways of life and history when forced, often by Colonial violence, to forget. The second is that religions that claim they are the “authentic” and “true” religion are by definition isolationists, often, again, using societal force and violence to enforce this recognition of their “authenticity.” If you have to isolate or murder people to prove authenticity, then maybe that’s not entirely natural or true. The point is, because the premise of a uni-culture and religion is so steeped in violence and enforcement, it cannot be real, else it would exist as naturally as does gravity.

Some indigenous communities in Kenya, Hawaii, New Zealand are a few that come to mind, are reintroducing their language, and cultural ways in an attempt to save their way of life. It’s mainly too late for many communities. The colonial languages, religions and cultures still feed themselves via classism and racial economics. We have to individually search and satisfy ourselves and anyone around us curious about the world and their people pre-colonization.

Thanks, again.