RE: Is it possible to maintain and respect cultural heritage and not be a racist
March 11, 2015 at 6:28 pm
(March 11, 2015 at 5:24 pm)abaris Wrote: I find this question about cultural heritage incredibly narrow minded.
So let's see, what is my cultural heritage? The one that I know of anyway. Only the last four generations. There would be some Hungarian, some Czech, some German, some Romanian and let's not forget some jewish. In my family people actually did marry between religions or - if you so wish - races. If I was religious, there's also a lot to choose from. Roman Catholic, Protestant, jewish and a bit of Greek Orthodox.
But that's not the end of the rainbow. We all come from somewhere, in Europe as well as America. The Americans should know that everyone's family has been an immigrant family. And where did they come from? If we take the last few centuries, from somewhere in Europe with different cultural heritages. So what Drich is actually arguing for is to put an adopted heritage above all else.
My biological family outside of health issues really hasn't gone into any detail as to or genes or migration. I grew up in America so my "culture" which I hate that term actually, was a pimple faced dork who didn't have their first real friend until highschool.
I really hate humans attitudes that their labels make them special, they may be, but that is local and era based, and since time changes as well, neither culture, or religion or political party or even genes stay the same long term. We have always migrated and mixed.
