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In reply to the discussion: Not liking an offensive movie is not an excuse to riot and kill people. [View all]nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)You are also conflating what even peope in these cultures see as a problem, slavery for example, or genital mutilation, with your very western definition of freedom of speech. I admit, it's quite funny actually.
What is even funnier is you bringing up slavery...read what pure and above reproach American Corporations are doing to Chinese workers in Samoa. (Yup, I managed to type that without laughing too hard)
Careful of calling for the grass blade in somebody else's eye while your vision is blocked by an old growth log.
But hey, so you know, the Universal Declaration espouses Western Values after a war when our side won...and it's been denounced by a few Southern Economies. After all, as a few developing world leaders leaders have rightly pointed out, freedom of speech, democracy and even education are not even worth a cup of warm of spit when people are starving to death.
Also the declaration violates some concepts close and dear to far more traditional societies, such as a sense of community.
I truly do not expect you to get it...I truly don't...cultural imperialism, unlike actual boots on the ground type, is far more insidious. That said, as globalization continues apace...I expect the declaration to become even less useful among nation states...I mean, predators will soon replace nation states at a practical level. So it s even more funny.