Las TIC y las culturas minoritarias en un mundo global

Abstract

Minority cultures, their languages and traditions become even more of a minority and their vital breath fades out as globalization places them in a much wider context. The appearance of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), and the Internet as a backbone for them, has created a new discrimination between those who have access to them and those who do not. Minority cultures are defined by the fact that they have been overcome by a dominant culture; therefore, they often suffer more urgent evils than their identity loss (unemployment, poverty, social discrimination, etc.). This makes it also more difficult for them to reafirm their roots, since doing so means that they will be living at a lower standard than if they integrated in the dominant culture. In this article we intend to show the importance of the ICT and the enormous possibilities they offer to the recuperation of these endangered cultures, integrating them in the Internet world, giving them a voice and a space to meet, to communicate and to enrich the world heritage with their particular and unique vision of the world.