Its culture dummy or is it?
Another deep post, one not about women (I really think I'm just repeating myself over and over again when it comes to those posts sometimes.) I think one of the biggest problems of our time is conflicting cultures. Racial, religious, social what have you. In general these lead to a clash of ideals, why this past year I have had someone tell me that we can't change the world just because of this. The person (who will not be named to protect the guilty) told me in some cultures people think computers are bad, we don't question them or try to change them because its just the way they are. At the time the argument was reasonable, but as I wrestled with it a bit more I realized that it isn't satisfactory. For instance there are people who believe that genocide is right, we live in a country that allows people to hate people just because they're different and it was once acceptable to pull such people out of thier homes and kill them. I'm not saying that we should dump correct ideals on such people, a historical example of this is imperialism.
Here comes historical analysis so feel free to skip ahead, but I urge you to read on to since its a look into my thinking process. With imperialism it was basically the White culture sitting upon its high horse in the world. While their culture was at its peak someone said "Hey! We're good we should spread the wealth". Thus began imperialism. Through that the White man (yes men, since back then men were considered geniuses who could do no wrong, until World War I and II.) decided to go to Africa and Asia. And so the White men went off thinking their intentions (while noble at first) would change the world. But no it didn't and it literally ruined civilizations and showed how much civilized folk could be idiots.
End brief historial analysis. Yes it would be wrong to just up and decide that one's way of thinking is correct over another. However is it a reason that we should hide behind? It becomes a scapegoat of why people are allowed to do the things they do or to divert the blame. It's sad to see that people cannot just take the blame and fix themselves. I think its one of the most difficult problems to fix in the world. Thats why sociologists and psychologists write books and articles about cultures and seeking to understand what it is that makes people do the things they do. Can we really use culture to justify the things we do? If a White person is loud in public we accept that and say "Oh its because they're White, your so cute". Or we say "you like this stuff?" and what not. We judge based upon the culture that people are into like anime, video games, skateboarding while some are more accepted than others. Some world we live in huh?
In closing I just want to say culture is not a wall that one can take cover behind to justify one's actions. How many times can we avoid a bullet behind such a wall. When one uses cover they must remember that nothing is ever indestructable, it may shield you for a while but next shot might cause it to crumble. Take responsibility and look within yourself to accept who you are and what you want to become.
Here comes historical analysis so feel free to skip ahead, but I urge you to read on to since its a look into my thinking process. With imperialism it was basically the White culture sitting upon its high horse in the world. While their culture was at its peak someone said "Hey! We're good we should spread the wealth". Thus began imperialism. Through that the White man (yes men, since back then men were considered geniuses who could do no wrong, until World War I and II.) decided to go to Africa and Asia. And so the White men went off thinking their intentions (while noble at first) would change the world. But no it didn't and it literally ruined civilizations and showed how much civilized folk could be idiots.
End brief historial analysis. Yes it would be wrong to just up and decide that one's way of thinking is correct over another. However is it a reason that we should hide behind? It becomes a scapegoat of why people are allowed to do the things they do or to divert the blame. It's sad to see that people cannot just take the blame and fix themselves. I think its one of the most difficult problems to fix in the world. Thats why sociologists and psychologists write books and articles about cultures and seeking to understand what it is that makes people do the things they do. Can we really use culture to justify the things we do? If a White person is loud in public we accept that and say "Oh its because they're White, your so cute". Or we say "you like this stuff?" and what not. We judge based upon the culture that people are into like anime, video games, skateboarding while some are more accepted than others. Some world we live in huh?
In closing I just want to say culture is not a wall that one can take cover behind to justify one's actions. How many times can we avoid a bullet behind such a wall. When one uses cover they must remember that nothing is ever indestructable, it may shield you for a while but next shot might cause it to crumble. Take responsibility and look within yourself to accept who you are and what you want to become.
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