English is the language of opportunity why bother to teach indigenous languages?

Answer 1

What have you learned in your class about this topic? What do you think? Does the culture and history of one's own ancestral people have any value? How is that communicated if not in the language of that people? Are there economic benefits to doing business in a native language?

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