Let's say you are an 18-year-old kid with a really big brain. You're trying to figure out which field of study you should devote your life to, so you can understand the forces that will be shaping history for decades to come.
Go into the field that barely exists: cultural geography. Study why and how people cluster, why certain national traits endure over centuries, why certain cultures embrace technology and economic growth and others resist them.
This is the line of inquiry that is now impolite to pursue. The gospel of multiculturalism preaches that all groups and cultures are equally wonderful.
2 comments:
I think he's trying to re-interpret tolerance for culture into a bad thing. Tolerance does not mean ignoring real differences. In fact, that would be a total absence of true tolerance as it would negate the basis of the need for it - that there are differences that should not matter in any consequential manner.
Multi-culturalism, as far as I know, doesn't deny that people cluster around people they feel most comfortable with. It simply denies that one culture is better than others because of the way it clusters compared to the way others cluster.
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To me, this isn't really about multiculturalism or tolerance. Without making a distinction between good and bad, he is merely stating that as people group together for their mutual benefit this opens up a new field of study. We must learn why people group themselves and whether these groupings are harmless or potentially harmful. Even I like to hang out with those who are like-thinking. That does not make me intolerant. It makes me a normal person. Multiculturalism's extreme edge teaching that all cultures are equal and we should be tolerant of all has led to England's problem of imams openly preaching jihad. Cannot England protect itself from a culture that seeks its demise? Would it not be better to try to understand a sub-culture and thereby learn appropriate ways of mitigating the dangers that may be posed by it? Or am I to blithely travel through life assuming all other cultures are as "benign" as mine?
The bottom line is that I must understand my potential enemy and my potential friend. Assume nothing, verify everything. Therefore study Cultural Geography!
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