I have a pretty heavy disdain of culture and nationality, to be honest.
I guess there's some existing sentiment out there, where people say things like,
"Some might get confused about my position and think I'm against culture or cultural diversity. Far from it. Our differences, heritage, and groupings can bring about incredible beauty, diversity, creativity, and new ways of thinking.
But where does this actually happen? Where is culture not a detriment to anyone not in that culture? And even if a few outliers exist, like maybe one culture that's really benevolent, or maybe they have great food, I can't help but view culture as a thing that's inborn, and undecided by the individual who lives in that culture.
It might just be because I was raised in modern internet culture, and so the ways of more primitive, tribal societies just look primitive to me. Primitive, inefficient, unintelligent, and generally just a step out of feral ape-hood.
It's inspiring an essay even now. Check out my profile in a day and I might have a new essay about culture, or rather, the disdain of culture from the perspective of a person in a beautiful culture.
Culture is what we do and influence others to do habitually, based on principles that we share. So culture is not something we are born with, but something that we are always (in one current form or another) born into.
But the individual still makes his own culture, hence why we have subcultures.
I think the risk is going to the extreme and promoting "multiculturalism" when one actually just mean that people should have a right to behave as they like and exchange cultural information as long as they don't harm anyone. This makes society better, if we adopt the right principles.
Just mixing a bunch of different cultures because we make a badly thought through decission to value them all "equally" (they could be equally good, bad, extreme, mediocre etc) is a very bad idea however. Then we're just avoiding making a decission as to what is right and wrong. With such thinking there is no longer even any known reason to resist dictatorship or other horrible practices.
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Did you see my newest post?
You might like it, and I wouldn't mind seeing your own post as a response.
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I've got a post coming on this subject, only I havn't written it yet... :P and I'm writing something else right now. But I'll check your post!
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