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Is your culture really 'strong' if a new mosque scares you?

by unmole 8y ago

dragonwriter 8y ago
Arguably, yes; strong personal revulsion to things outside the culture are often an element of a strong culture; its a component of what might be termed a cultural immune response.
- mcv 8y ago
  Some of those cultural immune responses behave more like an allergy than a response to an actual threat, though. In some cases, the immune response is a bigger threat to the culture than the outside influence.
  - throwaway42901 8y ago
    Are you so out of thought with reality that you don't consider mass-immigration a threat? Our language, or architecture, our art, or connection as a people are way too great to see it be destroyed by a "modern idea" that has never been proven to work. I think people who think mass-immigration is a good thing should arrange visas for whoever they want to bring, under the condition that they are economically responsible for them. But don't put the responsibility on the general population. Enough with the hypocrisy. At least where I live, most people aren't interested as the electoral votes increasingly show. Part of the problem (if not the main one) is the concept of economies of scale and the constant desire for growth. This concept is a Northern/Anglo-Saxon invention that is alien to our own Southern European idiosyncrasy. It's a vicious circle because if we don't play the "game", we'll be either conquered by force or through cultural influences. Until all countries decide to "calm down", we have to continue this madness or be gone. Everything for efficiency and growth, the most crude way to live a life.
    - ahje 8y ago
      There are plenty of other problems caused by the mass-immigration policies in certain countries but people abandoning their own culture is not one of them. After all people didn't stop going to church because someone else built a mosque. Replacing local customs and traditions with crappy Hollywood blockbusters and the US music industry is something that people have managed on their own, and it's been going on since WW2.

Is your culture really 'strong' if a new mosque scares you?

by unmole 8y ago

Is your culture really 'strong' if a new mosque scares you?

Arguably, yes; strong personal revulsion to things outside the culture are often an element of a strong culture; its a component of what might be termed a cultural immune response.

mcv 8y ago
Some of those cultural immune responses behave more like an allergy than a response to an actual threat, though. In some cases, the immune response is a bigger threat to the culture than the outside influence.
- throwaway42901 8y ago
  Are you so out of thought with reality that you don't consider mass-immigration a threat? Our language, or architecture, our art, or connection as a people are way too great to see it be destroyed by a "modern idea" that has never been proven to work. I think people who think mass-immigration is a good thing should arrange visas for whoever they want to bring, under the condition that they are economically responsible for them. But don't put the responsibility on the general population. Enough with the hypocrisy. At least where I live, most people aren't interested as the electoral votes increasingly show. Part of the problem (if not the main one) is the concept of economies of scale and the constant desire for growth. This concept is a Northern/Anglo-Saxon invention that is alien to our own Southern European idiosyncrasy. It's a vicious circle because if we don't play the "game", we'll be either conquered by force or through cultural influences. Until all countries decide to "calm down", we have to continue this madness or be gone. Everything for efficiency and growth, the most crude way to live a life.
  - ahje 8y ago
    There are plenty of other problems caused by the mass-immigration policies in certain countries but people abandoning their own culture is not one of them. After all people didn't stop going to church because someone else built a mosque. Replacing local customs and traditions with crappy Hollywood blockbusters and the US music industry is something that people have managed on their own, and it's been going on since WW2.