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In reply to the discussion: I do not need... Eurocentric feminists to dictate to me what I wear or shouldn't wear. [View all]BainsBane
(53,032 posts)Are they wrong too? That is what religion is in most of the world. You assume people would run around church hopping if government let them. That you think that possible is the result of a breakdown of community and family, a function of capitalist dislocation. Most of those people would no more change religions than you would change your skin. It is who they are, who their families are, who their ancestors are.
Any society that kills others to remake the world in its own image is wrong. Think about that. You are paying money to do that each and every day. You really are not in a position to judge.
You aren't promoting cultural dignity. You are completely denying it for others. You see cultures that differ from ours as illegitimate. Than sense of superiority is without justification. We are a highly militaristic culture with the highest prison population on earth and tremendous economic inequality. That people do not think exactly like you does not make their culture wrong. Firstly, very few people on this earth are as ethnocentric and self absorbed as Americans. You somehow see that as a virtue. It is not. Do you seriously think a gay person in Palestine is more interested in your condescension and scorn that his own right to life, land, water, and political self-determination.
You've clearly not been exposed to much about the world. I suggest you do something about it because you entire world view is offensive and dangerous. It's a sense of cultural superiority that justifies massive military interventions designed to "liberate" them from oppression, and in the result kills millions.