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| Trojan Horse debate: We were wrong, all cultures are not equal |
| 2014-06-12 |
| [The Telegraph] Unfortunately, the great lie underpinning the creed of multiculturalism, as spouted by Francoise Cerrah and her ilk, is that all cultures are "equally valid". Well, patently, they're not. The reason irate Pakistani patriarchs are not chucking bricks at their errant daughters in the Birmingham Bull Ring is because Britain has a basically uncorrupt police force, a robust judiciary and an enlightened, hard-won system of liberal values that regards women and girls as equals, not third-class citizens. But instead of standing up to barbarism and ignorance, too often we have looked away in embarrassment or fear. How many teachers have averted their gaze when 13-year-old Muslim girls suddenly disappear from the classroom to be taken "home" for a forced marriage, because this would present unwelcome evidence that some cultures are less valid than others? The two paragraphs above are excerpts from the thought provoking article. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #16 Unfortunately, the great lie underpinning the creed of multiculturalism, as spouted by Francoise Cerrah and her ilk, is that all cultures are "equally valid". More hogwash from the left. Embracing multiculturalism as the left means all cultures are equal. They don't consider that some cultures lop off heads. Others are supremacist cultures who try to take over your culture and impose their will and culture on you. Unfortunately, the notion of multiculturalism from the left degrades into "tribalism." They don't mean absorbing other cultures into our culture and having them become Americans. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2014-06-12 15:03 |
| #15 Reminds me of a passage in Band of Brothers where he talks about different cultres the soldiers have dealt with. Dutch and Germans got high marks because they cleaned up the bombed out mess. French less so because they expected others to clean up for them. Even among whites there are cultural differences. I agree with AlanC. All races might be equal but when you slap culture ontop differences become immediately apparant. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2014-06-12 14:19 |
| #14 Not so SteveS.... he used a salad fork. Very uncivilized. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2014-06-12 13:38 |
| #13 Waddya mean "we?" |
| Posted by: Uncle Phester 2014-06-12 13:14 |
| #12 allegedly cutting out the heart of his ex-girlfriend's current lover and eating it with a knife and fork. Nice to see there is still a trace of civilization in SA. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2014-06-12 12:42 |
| #11 The idea that all cultures are equal is stoopid on its face. It puts the Coahuiltecan or the Karankawa Indians on the same level as civilized folk. |
| Posted by: Fred 2014-06-12 12:32 |
| #10 "#1Â You just have to look at the wealth creation differences." In Yemen, I believe, there are the ruins of the city state that was the domain of the Queen of Sheba. It was rich, powerful, and built on the crops grown by the water trapped by a bronze-age dam. In the centuries since its collapse, the locals have made no effort to rebuild the dam, preferring begging and theft to the hard work of building a civilization. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2014-06-12 12:12 |
| #9 A rare Mbuyiselo Manona. Cape Town - A man has been arrested in Gugulethu for allegedly cutting out the heart of his ex-girlfriend’s current lover and eating it with a knife and fork. Neighbours were awoken by a traumatised man who had witnessed the attack late on Tuesday night, reported the Times. The suspect allegedly stabbed 62-year-old Mbuyiselo Manona in the chest and neck and bit the victim on the left side of his face. A witness told the Cape Argus he looked through a window of Manona’s house and saw the suspect sitting next to Manona’s body and “digging from the body and stuffing his face”. Police apparently found the suspect with a piece of heart dripping from his mouth. Manona’s girlfriend, Nomonde Tshabalala, who had been living with him for three years, has been left in a state of shock. Manona’s sisters also expressed their horror at his death and said he “didn’t deserve to die in the hands of an animal”.em> News24 Link |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-06-12 11:16 |
| #8 Multiculturalism? The Rodney King view of the world: "Why canÂ’t we all just get along?" Academia seems to embrace this kumbaya approach as they have institutionalized it into their programs big time. At risk of being called xenophobic, "How's that working out for us?" The borders are thrown open, kids from other countries are sent to our borders which have created risks for them and us; the good with the bad come pouring through. We often educate people from other countries only later to become our enemies. The "other" cultures end up expecting us to bend to their way of life, e.g. sharia law, etc. We have had multiculturalism in the past; however, we have expected those from other countries to obey our laws, learn our language, learn some of our history and political system and blend into our culture to some degree. We used to have a controlled process of immigration. Now, it seems there are no rules for this process--it is chaotic. The reason it is chaotic it that politicians of one stripe or another are eagerly pandering for anticipated votes or cheap labor. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2014-06-12 11:06 |
| #7 A driving force behind the "success" of multi-culturalism was the conflation of race and culture. You couldn't disparage the culture of the drugs and violence riddled ghetto because that made you a racist. So the abhorrent cultures became valid and the anarchist/fascist tribes in academia found a way to make money off it whild disparaging the hard working folks that made our society possible. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2014-06-12 09:04 |
| #6 Check life expectancy stats, the come tell us about 'equal'. And who did the ground work to make that happen for the modern world? And notice how when press about all that socialist failure stats they always seem to point out a couple northern European countries composed of 98+ percent white, Lutheran cultured people. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-06-12 08:40 |
| #5 'White Men Can't Jump' I say unto you "Mikhael Barishnikov," Besoeker. Or, my high school sport was gymnastics. So was my high school boyfriend's, who rejoiced is sharing a bloodline with the writer John Updike. And of course, back in the old days it was accepted that basketball simply was a Jewish sport. All that innate scrappy intelligence, donchaknow. Still is a fave among the lads at the Jewish community centers today. It's just that they have other options for careers, now. Basketball, like boxing, is for those poor lads who don't have many options and happen to have a natural gift. You got any Moslem neighbors? Mr. Big Thromoth3646, you are being particularly insipid this morning. Do try not to do that. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2014-06-12 07:54 |
| #4 You got any Moslem neighbors? And if they use camel meat in their burgers who are we to judge.? |
| Posted by: Big Thromoth3646 2014-06-12 07:17 |
| #3 I remain in denial. 'White Men Can't Jump' was simply a sports comedy, an unfortunate turn of phrase. Nothing more. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-06-12 05:55 |
| #2 You can mix reciprocal cultures, but mixing in non-reciprocal (religio-tribal)cultures is a disaster. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2014-06-12 05:26 |
| #1 You just have to look at the wealth creation differences. Mixing shit into ice-cream does not clean up the shit. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2014-06-12 05:23 |