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2017-09-10 Home Front: Culture Wars

'Values' Update - Is the U.S. Declining Because Americans Abandoned ‘Bourgeois Values'?

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-09-10 04:16|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Still, the Inquirer column caused an uproar on the Penn campus, and that uproar became a full-blown conflagration when Wax gave a provocative quote to the Daily Pennsylvanian, a Penn student newspaper, for an article about the growing controversy: "Everyone wants to go to countries ruled by white Europeans," she said, since those countries embody bourgeois values.

...Well, there's yer problem right there.

You told the truth.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2017-09-10 06:50|| 2017-09-10 06:50|| Front Page Top

#2 @#1 I'm not sure if that is 100% true now. I certainly don't want to go to Germany/Sweden. Asia is becoming a good plan B for hard workers that have grown up expecting just rewards for their efforts. I left the USA for China for the reasons she mentions.

Posted by Beau 2017-09-10 07:58|| 2017-09-10 07:58|| Front Page Top

#3 "Everyone wants to go to countries ruled by white Europeans,"

Not my ancestors or many others who left or were thrown out of Europe by it indigenous governments. Do not confuse European with American. They may look alike (to you racists) and seem similar in behavior but they're two different creatures sort of like lamas and camels. Go look for the Bill of Rights in their papers.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-09-10 08:30|| 2017-09-10 08:30|| Front Page Top

#4 ....rap culture of inner-city blacks; the anti-assimilation ideas gaining ground among some Hispanic immigrants. These cultural orientations are not only incompatible with what an advanced free-market economy and a viable democracy require

"Free-market economy and viable democracy".... in other words modern civilization.

How enlightening.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-09-10 08:36|| 2017-09-10 08:36|| Front Page Top

#5 #2I left the USA for China for the reasons she mentions.
Posted by Beau

Oh, really? Lulz

Posted by Frank G 2017-09-10 08:43|| 2017-09-10 08:43|| Front Page Top

#6 Remember how they raked Dan Quayle over the coals because he dared to suggest that kids need their daddies?

Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-09-10 11:10|| 2017-09-10 11:10|| Front Page Top

#7
"Bourgeois values" is part of it. Part of the problem imposed by the current american mandarinocracy is that we don't even have the vocabulary to describe the problem.

The values that made us strong were Traditional British Protestant values. The Southern Baptist church down the street may not match that value set as well as one might hope, but everyone else, including the current iterations of the Episcopal Church and the Roman Catholic church, appear to be worse. Sinners in the hands of an angry gaia!

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2017-09-10 12:22|| 2017-09-10 12:22|| Front Page Top

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