It always used to impress me in college, hearing anthropology teachers, biology teachers, sociology teachers, etc. lavishing praise on "other cultures" for this social phenomenon or that unique institution.
Sex among family members is obscene and gross. Unless it happens in the context of a revered ritual.
Corporal punishment of children or adults is also a barbaric institution, unless, once again, it is part of an indigenous or non-American culture, at which point it becomes a wonderful idea.
The same cycle repeats over and over again. Other cultures are praised for their 'wonderful ideas'....You can almost instantly invalidate any point, idea, or premise on a college campus today simply by stating that "this is only part of OUR culture, in other cultures, "bla bla etc".
Alot of term papers and assignments I've read today have been stripped of any sort of academic or intellectual merit. The student or person takes 20 pages and 20000 words to come to the conclusion that "such and such is a Western institution" or "they don't do it this way in other cultures".
Gone is the idea, the solution to the problem, etc., replaced with the sage wisdom of "other cultures do it differently". Does anyone else notice this?
Also, institutions that are acceptable to other cultures are horrible and insufferable in ours. Violence on TV or in video games in America leads to violent people, but assaulting another teenager or ritualistically portraying a massacre or threat to another tribe is a wonderful and pure thing.
Corporal punishment leads to obedient children in other cultures, but it leads to violent, depressed, and antisocial children in ours. Modern feminism holds marriage to be "slavery", and American men must conform to every feminist wish, no matter how ridiculous, but if women are selected by a game of chance or a stickfight, it is a wonderful and good thing.
It is almost condescending. Extreme liberal bitches hold that such and such is ok for other people, but not for us. Why is that? Do they believe that other cultures are primitive or the people are less intelligent? Doesn't that go against the whole premise of multiculturalism?
It's almost a dissonant dual stance today: Revere and celebrate other cultures, for they are better than we are. Emulate and learn from other cultures, for they have got it right where we have failed.
Do not do such-and-such common thing (that other cultures practice), for it is wrong. Do not practice this mentality or idea, for it is 100% wrong. (Five minutes ago, it was the greatest idea to grace the Planet Earth)
Sex among family members is obscene and gross. Unless it happens in the context of a revered ritual.
Corporal punishment of children or adults is also a barbaric institution, unless, once again, it is part of an indigenous or non-American culture, at which point it becomes a wonderful idea.
The same cycle repeats over and over again. Other cultures are praised for their 'wonderful ideas'....You can almost instantly invalidate any point, idea, or premise on a college campus today simply by stating that "this is only part of OUR culture, in other cultures, "bla bla etc".
Alot of term papers and assignments I've read today have been stripped of any sort of academic or intellectual merit. The student or person takes 20 pages and 20000 words to come to the conclusion that "such and such is a Western institution" or "they don't do it this way in other cultures".
Gone is the idea, the solution to the problem, etc., replaced with the sage wisdom of "other cultures do it differently". Does anyone else notice this?
Also, institutions that are acceptable to other cultures are horrible and insufferable in ours. Violence on TV or in video games in America leads to violent people, but assaulting another teenager or ritualistically portraying a massacre or threat to another tribe is a wonderful and pure thing.
Corporal punishment leads to obedient children in other cultures, but it leads to violent, depressed, and antisocial children in ours. Modern feminism holds marriage to be "slavery", and American men must conform to every feminist wish, no matter how ridiculous, but if women are selected by a game of chance or a stickfight, it is a wonderful and good thing.
It is almost condescending. Extreme liberal bitches hold that such and such is ok for other people, but not for us. Why is that? Do they believe that other cultures are primitive or the people are less intelligent? Doesn't that go against the whole premise of multiculturalism?
It's almost a dissonant dual stance today: Revere and celebrate other cultures, for they are better than we are. Emulate and learn from other cultures, for they have got it right where we have failed.
Do not do such-and-such common thing (that other cultures practice), for it is wrong. Do not practice this mentality or idea, for it is 100% wrong. (Five minutes ago, it was the greatest idea to grace the Planet Earth)
