RE: Here You Go, Europe
July 12, 2015 at 5:45 pm
(This post was last modified: July 12, 2015 at 5:50 pm by Regina.)
1, 2, and 4 I had some idea about but 3 and I hadn't heard of.
I'm surprised circumcision is so high in America. I heard a statistic recently that apparently 74% of American men are? I'm sure that needs confirming but if it's true that blows my mind. I've always associated circumcision more with Jews and maybe Muslims than I have with Christians. It's virtually non-existent here (UK) except for among Jewish and Muslim communities.
Some European cultures aren't very huggy either though. I wouldn't say British people are scared of hugs, but we definitely don't touch non-sexually as much as the Southern European cultures do. British people actually find it weird and questionable the way Southern Europeans (including straight men) kiss eachother when they greet.
Europeans are actually very diverse and I think it shows looking at this list. It's funny seeing the culture clash within my own family being of both Maltese and German ancestry.
I'm surprised circumcision is so high in America. I heard a statistic recently that apparently 74% of American men are? I'm sure that needs confirming but if it's true that blows my mind. I've always associated circumcision more with Jews and maybe Muslims than I have with Christians. It's virtually non-existent here (UK) except for among Jewish and Muslim communities.
Some European cultures aren't very huggy either though. I wouldn't say British people are scared of hugs, but we definitely don't touch non-sexually as much as the Southern European cultures do. British people actually find it weird and questionable the way Southern Europeans (including straight men) kiss eachother when they greet.
Europeans are actually very diverse and I think it shows looking at this list. It's funny seeing the culture clash within my own family being of both Maltese and German ancestry.
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
