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Originally Posted by daisym
We constantly see reference to Muslims being anti western, but the truth is that they are not alone in resenting western cultural imperialism.
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There has been tension between India and the US ever since Nehru decided to be one of the non-aligned powers (with Tito and Nasser) and we assumed that meant he was a soviet, and in essence drove him to the USSR. In hindsight an oddity that we ended up siding with the dictatorship over the democracy, and probably not the best of moves.
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For some time now I have been saying that the ethno religious conflicts we are seeing globally are probably leess about religion, and more about cultural imperialism (in one way or another). Here is an example. I couldn't find the original article I saw re this a few days ago, in which several young Hindus were voicing much stronger criticisms of Valentine's day than what you would gather from this article ... but I have psted this one as a starting point.
I am wondering - do posters on this forum actually understand WHY it may be that groups in other cultures might resent/object to western cultural values 'invading' their societies?
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Every change has its reactions. Hell you don't even need to look outside the US to see this. Are we going to stop recognizing gay rights because a few radical churches in the south bitch about it? Perhaps evolution should be ignored, because some evangelicals don't like it.
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Can their objections in any way be seen as having any validity?
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No. Fact is, if their culture had appeal to the members of that culture, the US's culture wouldn't be a threat. At best this whining is merely annoying, for example, the Quebecois, at worst it is used to ignore horrible abuses of human rights, using the excuse that 'our culture doesn't recognize individual rights'.
Quite frankly I couldn't care less about culture, there are no group rights, merely an amalgam of individual rights.