Warbler said:
I made the above post before this this one:
moviefreakedmind said:
Warbler said:
moviefreakedmind said:
Western culture and parts of East Asian culture is better than all others that I can think of.
Excuse me? Did I just hear you say that the African culture is inferior to Western Culture? Also, what exactly do you mean by East Asian? Because if that doesn’t include China, you just said something about the culture my niece came from that is really going to set me off.
You didn’t hear anything, you read things. There are a lot of very troublesome aspects of “African culture”. I put “African culture” in quotes because Africa is not a homogenous place; it’s made up of a variety of people and cultures, but female genital mutilation, honor killing, superstition, and religious violence are very prominent throughout the continent. I said parts of East Asia because I think that Japan and South Korea are very stable and lovely countries that I suspect I’d enjoy living in as much as the United States. Funnily enough, I actually said “parts of East Asia” in order to exclude China because a prominent element of the culture there, especially after the Communist revolution wiped out much of their earlier culture, is to put industry and work ahead of health and safety. Obviously this is primarily a government thing, but it extends to a lot of families too. Look, for example, at the children that are given to olympic training camps based on genetics that are overworked in order to win gold medals for China, and then discarded if they’re injured, if they fail, or even just once they get too old. You apparently think that by culture I’m referring to people, and if that’s the case then you have no idea what I’m talking about. People are people wherever you go. I also don’t think that any cultures are perfect and there are positives to almost every culture (except for maybe any cultural aspects specific to North Korea), but I think that it’s ridiculous to say that they’re all equally good, or to say that I have to respect something that I think is terrible because it’s a part of someone’s culture.
EDIT: Just so I’m clear, I don’t agree with what that asshole in the article is talking about. He’s clearly referring to interracial marriage and cloaking his bullshit with an argument based on cultures when he’s obviously talking about race.
Maybe I misunderstood. But it can be hard to separate people from culture.
I don’t think that it is. A Mexican can be born in Chico, California and never have anything to do with Mexican culture. A Mexican can also be born in Mexico and reject parts of their own culture that they dislike.
Just imagine how Al Sharpton would react to anyone saying that white culture was better than African American culture.
White culture can be anything from Seattle hipsters to Tennessee rednecks, same with black culture. And MFM isn’t saying that some cultures are wholly better than others or that they’re superior, just that there are aspects in some that are better than others. If someone were to say “white culture is superior to black culture in every way,” I’d probably say that they’re a thinly veiled racist, but if someone were to say “there are some aspects of black culture that are bad,” I might be inclined to agree with them.
