1- Americans, or Brits or Aussies, who only speak English cannot really understand what it's like to speak a "minority" language, and be confronted with the dilemma of wanting to keep your culture, and yet having to learn a second language to integrate with the majority../2

2) They may become anthropologists, and go study minority people in some exotic country, and somehow make a career out of romanticizing their struggle, taking sides against the "oppressive" majority people, and paint it as a black and white issue, but it isn't. In real life.../3

3) ..there is no easy or simple solution. In Canada, preserving the French language is a constant struggle, not just in provinces where the majority is anglo, but also in Québec, where 80% speak French, but in an anglophone ocean of 400 millions... /4

4) ...even with a collective will, on the individual level, people make choices. They migrate, they intermarry, etc. And as French-speaking, we are lucky because French is spoken a lot in the world. But if your language is only spoken by a few M people, what do you do? ../5

5) ..so I do not have much sympathy for those "external" academics who advocate for the Uyghur or the Tibetan language, safely from the comfort of their academic position in their home country, which is totally and exclusively English-speaking.../6

6)... especially when that country has a long history of eradicating minority languages everywhere during it's long colonial history... If you want to be a missionary, better find another cause... let the people deal with their own difficulties by themselves.