That is why his entire objection is retarded. Cultures are not monolithic. A particular culture may be good in one area, and bad in another. Or might be measured on a continuum from bad to good across various human rights dimensions. Hell, we have wildly divergent attitudes in different geographic regions in this country. This is just more simple, black and white thinking from underdeveloped conservative minds.
But like, leaving aside some general limits to morality and where it comes from, I feel like most of us agree that the culture the nazis built was bad, and that there are many cultures that are better than that. I agree that things are nuanced, and that these concepts can and are often misused, but I personally don't think we should throw the baby out with the bathwater, even as I appreciate a lot of the work that post-modernists have done in challenging ideologies and simplistic narratives.
Or to put it in terms of the OP, unreflected ethnocentrism is bad, but sometimes some of the things "your own group" does is just better than what another group does...
I don't know who I'm talking to half of the time. It's so much less dynamic this way. Wish I had some down time, but apparently God is always watching you.
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I’d like to intercede. Jesus said the truth. When you look away from that for contrapose you really need to ask a truthful question to bring yourself around.
You could grow a pair of testicles and try to talk to her about it after class. Ask her why she believes all cultures are equal, etc. That's what I did when I was in college, I even got into an argument with my comp professor in front of the class on whether or not Lolita is pre-pederasty or not (it's not).
Do you think that the "western world" being superior to some (or even all) other cultures in the world means that the "western world" then can not be horrible and oppressive?
I haven't read Lolita nor seen the movie, but isn't it about a middle aged academic obsessing with a 12 year old girl? Sounds pretty paedobear to me..
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Nazi Germany is I think a case where the negative aspects of the culture are so hugely detrimental to the livelihoods of enough people that they outweigh any of the positive aspects, if any exist (tbh their perspective on race pretty much dominates all casual discussion of them and I haven't research the culture of Germany at the time enough to know if there were any positives).
Adam is definitely right in that "cultures" are not monolithic and they can carry both positive and negative aspects. Iran's treatment of homosexuals is deplorable, but their treatment of transgendered people (going off memory I might be mistaken) is actually by comparison much more accepting, for example.
Isn't Iran second behind Thailand for transition surgery? Is transgenderism embraced because its seen as a cash cow industry?
__________________ What CDTM believes;
Never let anyone else define you. Don't be a jerk just to be a jerk, but if you are expressing your true inner feelings and beliefs, or at least trying to express that inner child, and everyone gets pissed off about it, never NEVER apologize for it. Let them think what they want, let them define you in their narrow little minds while they suppress every last piece of them just to keep a friend that never liked them for themselves in the first place.
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