Sure it is. Short and straight.

Go on, lecture an Irish person about cultural genocide. I so wish we had a culture but we don't speak Irish anymore so of course we are a grey blob that nobody would recognise as distinct anymore 😪

Edit: downvote and run when "we just observe 💛" college rhetoric meets physical reality.

The reason most Americsn linguistics students equate language and culture is because a foreign language is the only different culture they've ever been exposed to.