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I think that it's pretty obvious that the user that you're responding to is using the term 'homogenous' as a euphemism for "white"
by Teever 4mo ago
I think that it's pretty obvious that the user that you're responding to is using the term 'homogenous' as a euphemism for "white"
- philipallstar 4mo agoI'm not - not everything is about race. That's a pretty basic lesson that World War 2 taught us, that you should have learned.
- tpholland 4mo agoWhat did you mean when you said homogenous, given the reality of Switzerland, its history, its civil structure, its languages, and its culture?
- philipallstar 4mo agoI don't know what the exact word is - I wouldn't quite say "culture", as there are clearly different cultural backgrounds at work, but just as with Canada mixing French and Anglo traditions, there is a generally homogenous Western European metaculture at work, premised on the Enlightenment, classical liberalism, the rule of law (and equality of opportunity under the law), freedom of religion, the importance of education and hard work, private property, and personal responsibility.
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- tpholland 4mo agoAh, a generally homogenous Western European metaculture then, like that Canada! Thanks for engaging with the specifics of the Swiss Enlightenment you can keep the change
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- philipallstar 4mo agoApologies - I've no idea what you're trying to say.
- tpholland 4mo agoThen they should say white. I'm prepared to give a lot of leeway when conversing with non-native speakers but as somebody who has grown up within a culture that understands that the concept of cultural homogeneity cannot refer to native speakers of non-mutually-comprehensible languages or historically antithetical religious positions, if they choose to use the word in novel ways that's their problem not mine!
- rayiner 4mo ago[flagged]