No "'save' the people from themselves." is being snidey pick out plenty more if you wish.
"Seriously JC, you need to put your prejudices behind you and think outside the box."
Address the issues of the disappearence of the traditions on the communities please; at the same time, perhaps you can deal with some of the others you have chose to avoid - shanties, allowing the songs and music to die along with the carriers - or is this being "in a schoolroom?"
The tradition was disappearing - collectors preserved some of it - you took some of it up, benefiting from the work of the collectors, (on your own admission) - you berated the collectors as "thieves", refusing to acknowledge your own part in the "theft". Hypocricy or what?
You really are not doing too well here - again!
Jim Carroll