Are Some Cultures Better than Others?
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🗓️ 11 January 2019
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| 0:00.0 | Do you think the United States and Western Europe are made up of imperialist, |
| 0:04.8 | colonialist, resource exploiting, greedy, grasping, brown skin hating people whose values are not |
| 0:11.8 | worth defending? If you think this question is absurd and that no one thinks this way, |
| 0:17.2 | you would be very much mistaken, many people do. And what's even more disturbing, |
| 0:22.3 | many of these people were born and live in the West. In other words, they've come to despise their |
| 0:28.0 | own culture. This thinking is the product of a doctrine widely taught in our schools. It's |
| 0:33.6 | known as multiculturalism, the belief that all cultures are equal. Or to put it another way, |
| 0:39.5 | no culture's values, art, music, political system, or literature are better or worse than any other. |
| 0:46.5 | But is this really true? Some years ago, Nobel Prize-winning novelist Saul Bello created a |
| 0:52.6 | major controversy when he said, find me the toll-story of the Zulu's or the proofs of the Popouins, |
| 0:59.1 | and I would be happy to read him. For this Bello was accused of racism. The charge was nonsense. |
| 1:05.8 | Bello wasn't saying that the Zulu's and Popouins are incapable of producing great novelists. |
| 1:11.0 | He was saying that as far as he knew, they hadn't. But just by raising the possibility that some |
| 1:16.8 | cultures have contributed more than others, he violated the chief tenet of multiculturalism. |
| 1:23.2 | More recently, President Donald Trump expressed a similar sentiment in Warsaw, Poland. |
| 1:29.7 | We write symphonies, we pursue innovation, we treasure the rule of law, and protect the right |
| 1:35.6 | to free speech and free expression. We empower women as pillars of our society and of our success, |
| 1:42.5 | that is who we are. Those are the priceless ties that bind us together as a civilization. |
| 1:48.8 | For this, Trump was roundly condemned by the multiculturalists. How could he say these things |
| 1:54.8 | one writer wrote as if these were unique qualities to white-dominated nations instead of universal |
| 2:00.8 | truths of the human race across all cultures? Here's the problem. Our values such as innovation, |
| 2:07.7 | rule of law, free expression, and women's empowerment equally held across all cultures. |
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