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Assimilation in the extreme that you suggest seems little different than cultural genocide. Forcing people to give up beliefs that conflict with the society in
by voakbasda 3y ago
Assimilation in the extreme that you suggest seems little different than cultural genocide. Forcing people to give up beliefs that conflict with the society in which they live is not an acceptable solution.
America will fall because of this kind of absurdly binary viewpoint. You can take my conflicting culture when you pry it from my cold dead hands. I would rather suffer anarchy or death than meekly accept the totalitarianism of homogeneity.
I don’t see how I can call people my fellow citizens when they want me to abandon my principles and beliefs in order to adopt a different set of values that they happen to value more than mine.
- Pet_Ant 3y agoIt’s not forcing, it’s a choice that moving implies. I have felt that a country is like a religion and moving is converting. You wouldn’t expect your parishioners to meet you halfway. A country shouldn’t just be a zipcode you happen to. I grew up as part or diaspora and still know people who have refused to mingle with the host country and just keep to out ghetto, or as we call “the colony”
- _8j50 3y agoWell see, you misinterpret what I said. Your beliefs are fine, that is not culture. Your practice of tradition exclusive to a pre-existing group based on ethno-national affiliation is my problem as well as your rejection of existing inclusive cultures in the country you moved to. Now, if you disagree with that, why did you migrate? A country isn't just land. You migrated into a culture and people and their ways.