I think you've explained yourself quite well; I just so happen to disagree.
No biggie.
When you said «unfortunate» in a previous post, surely you were implying that native folk music should be liked. And if it should be liked, then I take it you must mean by those who don't naturally, as the statement makes no sense when applied to those who already do.
Culture dies off all the time. It is an entirely natural and healthy process.
Ask yourself, if culture - music - does not generate the bare minimum of interest so that at least a few people will care and go to the trouble of striving to keep it alive, how interesting must it be?
Can something be interesting and yet interest no one?
Before you accuse me of pandering to commercialism, let me just say I've always been in the minority musical taste wise. I, for example, listen to «Le Mystére des Voix Bulgares» (Bulgarian Folklore), «Big Brazos» - Texas prison recordings from 1933 and 1934 (Blues), Erik Satie, etc., none of which are exactly mainstream or native to my country.
