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If you vote yes I hope it feels good, but it doesn't make it so.
Culltures are....
You believe in a 'every man for themselves, screw your neighbour to get ahead, and to hell with the consequences' type of culture.
I believe in a 'social co-operative society where the community looks after its weakest members' type of culture.
Equality is relative...
I suspect it's more about adaptation that equality.IMHO-Environment is the causation for genetic selection.The bias of that gene selectivity in turns determines the cultural biases and qualities.IE environment selects genes that suit a given environment.In turn a given culture is a reflection(product more accurately)of it's inhabitant's genes.Not everybody is adapted to our artificial 9-5 asphalt and plastic jungle.I suspect that great civilizations collapse because the selectivity for quality genes that fueled it's rise took on a dysgenic trend once life became too easy and specialized.Weather conditions,competitive urbanization conditions and,conversely, disgenic urbanization conditions(TOO successful,survival became too easy) are responsable for the biggest movements across the spectrum of the human condition.We are stll evolving(through both gene selectivity and genetic mutation)
No, all cultures are not equal. Some are pretty nice, some are downright horrible.
Compare, for a moment, western culture where you pretty much free to do as you want on most things unless you're hurting someone else (not entirely, and there's room for improvement, but we have it pretty damn good), with the culture predominate in the middle east, where you're free to do as islam and the mullahs order you to do, otherwise they'll kill you.
Are they just as worthy of praise and defense as enlightened western civilization? Of course not, but people won't admit this. To many self-hating westerners the fact that women earn 3 cents less per hour than men is just as harsh a condemnation of our society as the fact that women are owned like cattle in the middle east condemns their culture.
Obviously there is a difference, but many won't admit it.
Yes, all cultures are equal. I'm sure that the average Iranian is supportive of say the Sharia law. Because that's how they've been brought up. And I'm sure that the average Iranian sees western culture the same way that westerners view eastern culture. So it's really about where you live and where you stand morally.
Clearly not all cultures are equal because some cultures create more things and ideas than others.
In terms of freedom and equality for its members? No.
In terms of what's right or wrong, people will naturally think that their culture is right and departure from the tenets of their culture is wrong. I'll freely admit that I think my culture is more accurate and reflective of a good and prosperous world than others, but that doesn't mean it's a universal truth.
Obviously not.
I perceive "equal" as a loaded term.
Are they the same? No.
Are soem 'better' than others? Depends on the criteria and the person doing the evaluating.
of course there different. We would not have third world countries if we were all the same.
What do you mean by equal?
The same?
Is equality based on quantitative measures?
Qualitative measures?
What about internal cultures? Are the cultures of California, New York, Florida, and Texas equal?
Are the cultures of Brooklyn and Staten Island equal?
In the U.S., are the cultures of the Fundamentalist Christians and the Country Club Republicans equal?
Will the pre-Bush era American culture be equal to the post-Bush American culture, once the ultra-conservatives have pushed through their changes to government and society?
Some people would simply use a question like this to push their hidden agenda. "No, all cultures aren't equal. The Muslim/Arab culture is definitely inferior. We should invade them, now, take their oil, and oppress them forever."
Interesting question, LC, but quite broad in scope.
Cannaballism... ƒU¢K YEAH!
Voted : No, all cultures are not equal
Some have superior values over others.
Voted : No, all cultures are not equal
Rather bizarre the moral equivalency arguments being presented here.
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