"It is ridiculous to love all cultures because all cultures are not equal". Your sweeping statement Roslyn Ross, is very pompous and patronising. I don't think "other cultures" need your love or compassion.
The anthropological term " Cultural relativism" recognises the diversity of human cultures and the equal validity of each.
But the way the western culture has embraced genocide you wouldn't say that it is equal or valid, would you ?
If you think highly patriarchal and misogynistic cultures are the equal of those which allow freedom and independence for people and particularly for women then you are not thinking clearly. Of course all cultures are not equal.
In Malawi witchcraft is still powerful and Albinos are killed for their body parts to be used in spells and old women are still murdered as witches. So, no, all cultures are not equal.
AND SORRY MATE BUT MISOGYNY, INFANTICIDE, WITCHCRAFT DO NOT HAVE EQUAL VALIDITY. What a ridiculous position.
It is wrong to say Western culture has embraced genocide given how many people in Western cultures are protesting against it.
What you need to remember is that the average person does not care much about what goes on beyond their world and life and they rely on mainstream media for their information. That is changing, particularly with younger generations accessing alternative information sites.
What you can say is that domination of the US and its obsession with Israel, has allowed genocide to happen, indeed, armed it to happen, and too many gutless allies have gone along with it. That is however beginning to change. None of that represents Western culture.
The domination of the world by one State, the US, does not represent Western culture or its values. Neither does genocide, occupation, colonisation, ethnic cleansing. The fact these things exist is not because of Western culture but because of flaws and failings in human nature.
And let us not be total hypocrites. Genocide and ethnic cleansing go on in some places all the time, particularly Africa and India and they are not Western cultures.
If Western culture has embraced genocide then can you please demonstrate how India and China, both non-Western cultures, have acted to condemn and prevent genocide? Many thanks.
You make the mistake of thinking the US represents Western culture, or whatever people believe Western culture might be. It does not.
Western culture is essentially the modern world and it likes to think it is the democratic world but that is no more than variations on the theme of democracy. The US is not a democracy but a Constitutional Republic and its system of the Electoral College. There are democratic aspects to the US but it is hardly representative of the Western democratic world.
Indu, Roslyn Ross has already made excuses and tried to deny the Genocide of ethnic/native Australians (in one of her other posts/comments). She is a certified Pro-Colonialist (and hence will try and defend Genocides by the West in ways that seem acceptable and permissible - i.e. using deceptive language and methods to appear as presentable as possible).
Such people (like Roslyn Ross) absolutely DISGUST me beyond belief. She disparages so many cultures in her attempts to defend the West - Indian culture, African cultures, and more.
And notice how she NEVER explicitly focuses on the U.S. Empire and their DIRECT involvement in the Genocide of the Palestinians (since 1948). She will always tru to put ALL the blame on Jews and Israel instead of expanding the scope of guilty parties and focusing on the West (which created this mess and dystopian situation to begin with).
Also, I rarely find her mentioning CAPITALISM (and everything that it entails - like imperialism, all forms of colonialism, etc.) as an extremely prominent factor in the behavior of Western nations in the destruction of 'not only the Palestinian people', but also large parts of the Global South.
[PS: If she sees this comment, she will try to employ her usual trick of 'take one statement I have made and make a credible case that it amounts to a hatred of Judaism and Jews or other cultures' to deflect from any honest criticism of her views/opinions. And when people produce copies amounts of evidence as to her culpability in all this, she simply ignores facts and logic as if they don't apply to 'any of her criticisms' - like she is 'above and beyond' being held accountable by logic.]
What is sad/horrible is that such kinds of 'White Supremacists' and racists (like Roslyn Ross) are all to common - one simply has to look at the MAGA cult (in the U.S.) and similar far-right groups in other Western nations - to see how they prey on the weak minded using manufactured moral panics of 'white replacement theory' and 'anti-immigration' narratives.
"It is ridiculous to love all cultures because all cultures are not equal". Your sweeping statement Roslyn Ross, is very pompous and patronising. I don't think "other cultures" need your love or compassion.
The anthropological term " Cultural relativism" recognises the diversity of human cultures and the equal validity of each.
But the way the western culture has embraced genocide you wouldn't say that it is equal or valid, would you ?
If you think highly patriarchal and misogynistic cultures are the equal of those which allow freedom and independence for people and particularly for women then you are not thinking clearly. Of course all cultures are not equal.
In Malawi witchcraft is still powerful and Albinos are killed for their body parts to be used in spells and old women are still murdered as witches. So, no, all cultures are not equal.
AND SORRY MATE BUT MISOGYNY, INFANTICIDE, WITCHCRAFT DO NOT HAVE EQUAL VALIDITY. What a ridiculous position.
It is wrong to say Western culture has embraced genocide given how many people in Western cultures are protesting against it.
What you need to remember is that the average person does not care much about what goes on beyond their world and life and they rely on mainstream media for their information. That is changing, particularly with younger generations accessing alternative information sites.
What you can say is that domination of the US and its obsession with Israel, has allowed genocide to happen, indeed, armed it to happen, and too many gutless allies have gone along with it. That is however beginning to change. None of that represents Western culture.
The domination of the world by one State, the US, does not represent Western culture or its values. Neither does genocide, occupation, colonisation, ethnic cleansing. The fact these things exist is not because of Western culture but because of flaws and failings in human nature.
And let us not be total hypocrites. Genocide and ethnic cleansing go on in some places all the time, particularly Africa and India and they are not Western cultures.
If Western culture has embraced genocide then can you please demonstrate how India and China, both non-Western cultures, have acted to condemn and prevent genocide? Many thanks.
You make the mistake of thinking the US represents Western culture, or whatever people believe Western culture might be. It does not.
Western culture is essentially the modern world and it likes to think it is the democratic world but that is no more than variations on the theme of democracy. The US is not a democracy but a Constitutional Republic and its system of the Electoral College. There are democratic aspects to the US but it is hardly representative of the Western democratic world.
https://factmyth.com/factoids/the-united-states-of-america-is-a-democracy/
Indu, Roslyn Ross has already made excuses and tried to deny the Genocide of ethnic/native Australians (in one of her other posts/comments). She is a certified Pro-Colonialist (and hence will try and defend Genocides by the West in ways that seem acceptable and permissible - i.e. using deceptive language and methods to appear as presentable as possible).
Such people (like Roslyn Ross) absolutely DISGUST me beyond belief. She disparages so many cultures in her attempts to defend the West - Indian culture, African cultures, and more.
And notice how she NEVER explicitly focuses on the U.S. Empire and their DIRECT involvement in the Genocide of the Palestinians (since 1948). She will always tru to put ALL the blame on Jews and Israel instead of expanding the scope of guilty parties and focusing on the West (which created this mess and dystopian situation to begin with).
Also, I rarely find her mentioning CAPITALISM (and everything that it entails - like imperialism, all forms of colonialism, etc.) as an extremely prominent factor in the behavior of Western nations in the destruction of 'not only the Palestinian people', but also large parts of the Global South.
[PS: If she sees this comment, she will try to employ her usual trick of 'take one statement I have made and make a credible case that it amounts to a hatred of Judaism and Jews or other cultures' to deflect from any honest criticism of her views/opinions. And when people produce copies amounts of evidence as to her culpability in all this, she simply ignores facts and logic as if they don't apply to 'any of her criticisms' - like she is 'above and beyond' being held accountable by logic.]
What is sad/horrible is that such kinds of 'White Supremacists' and racists (like Roslyn Ross) are all to common - one simply has to look at the MAGA cult (in the U.S.) and similar far-right groups in other Western nations - to see how they prey on the weak minded using manufactured moral panics of 'white replacement theory' and 'anti-immigration' narratives.