I must say that the idea of multiculturalism is as nifty as group hugs and sensitivity training, but the reality of the matter is that cultural relativism and the post-modern left offers nothing but a way OUT of everything the west has become.
Western Culture, lead mainly by the English speaking lands, has become the Greece, or the Rome of it’s day: Science, the arts, and social and political thought has been dynamically shaping this culture for a long time now, but unfortunately like the Greeks and the Romans, we too are losing the drive, the motivation, and the fire in our belly to stay on top and just like each of them we can fall to a challenger with very different ideas and methods down the road simply because they want it more (or hate us enough and our guard is down). People in the West do not get it anymore… too many of us have grown mentally fat and docile, entertaining ourselves with notions that every culture is equal in an attempt to hide the perceived ‘sins of our past’ and sooth our troubled souls since we still sit the lap of luxury that the world has never before seen.
It takes anti-western forces using Western invented and designed aircraft to fly them into western designed and engineered buildings using western designed training programs to fulfill their mission. But I guess that culture is equal to our own? We can see rich Kings (or their cultural equiv.) in different lands making fortunes selling natural resources which must be extracted using machines and techniques designed by westerners. Everything so many of these other cultures are and have is due to the creativity and design-work of western minds. In societies where westerners are not welcome (unless we come with money and only visiting for a short while) we see droves of their own people leaving for western destinations — mostly with little cash and planning to stay forever.
Western guilt and laziness will be the downfall if there is to be one. Our willingness to see all of our own faults and errors make us weak because in the end no matter how many times we say that we are sorry for this or that event or idea which took place far before any of us were born, no matter how much we try to act as though every culture is equal and has something to give to the tapestry that is the world, and no matter how much we lie to each other about ‘bringing people together will make us get along’ it will not work. The tapestry is a thin mesh tattered from centuries of disagreements. Oh what vain minds we have to think we hold the keys to world peace.
Count how many people you know have moved *TO* Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Sudan, Ethiopia, Iran, North Korea, China, Cuba, or any of the other ‘equals’ in culture to our own. Now tell me how many people you may know come from those places, or places like them. We are not all equal when it comes to cultures and the decisions of all of the individuals make this self-evident. As such when England chooses to have a celebration of St. George on English soil, then all those opposed need to remember where they currently decided to take up residence and actually make an effort to become ENGLISH and embrace one of the richest, most delightful histories in the world. Or perhaps go back to Shari’a law. Both are equal… right?
