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As the old saying goes "When in Rome, do as the Romans do". Why should people not assimilate into the local culture of where they are fleeing to? Or at least d
by daemin 9y ago
As the old saying goes "When in Rome, do as the Romans do".
Why should people not assimilate into the local culture of where they are fleeing to? Or at least discard elements of their previous culture which are incompatible with where they are now? Especially if the place they came from was so bad that they had to leave?
If they cannot or do not want to assimilate to the new culture, or discard incompatible practices in their new location, then they are always free to return.
It's not racist to call out faults with cultures and ideologies, no culture is perfect, but some cultures are objectively better than others.
Note that culture is not the same as religion, and it's not the same thing as race.
- JoeAltmaier 9y agoWhy should they change at all? What does it even mean to be 'incompatible'? Who's the arbiter? Why is your culture the 'objectively better' one? Lets just call it what it is - intolerance. "Why can't those foreigners just behave like I want them to! They make me uncomfortable" is what small-minded folk all over the world say about immigrants. Have said, for centuries.
- daemin 9y agoWhat I'm talking about is cultural things like slavery, honour killings, child sexual exploitation, blasphemy killings, making homosexual relations illegal. I would hope that we can agree that these are things which are unacceptable or at least unpalatable in the modern world. Therefore cultures where this is acceptable and normal practice are objectively worse than in cultures where it is unacceptable. So when people move from cultures where these things are practised to where they are not, they should either drop them, or move back.
- JoeAltmaier 9y agoYeah some things seem very wrong to us, and probably are. But I like to keep aware that, much that we do is viewed as appalling by others. Some is objectively worse (like healthcare, prisons, racism). Yet we struggle at the highest levels to preserve these cultural features. Sigh.