You're an American, and you have a problem with cultures that blame the "dominant culture" for all their misfortunes? You must be sorely ignorant about Latin America.
@TheHunter14792 I'm not well-knowledged on Latin America, no. I'm mostly knowledgeable about what happens here in the U.S.
I know I want to visit Brazil sometime.
What does my knowledge of Latin America have to do with me having a problem with cultures here in the U.S. that blame the "dominant culture" for all their misfortunes (usually the same cultures that call higher education "indoctrination by the man")?
@kizzume I mean that there are countries in Latin America that literally have fundamental problems because of U.S. involvement in those countries. The C.I.A. backed dictators who replaced peaceful & democratic governments during the Cold War. U.S. corporations keep people down in a cycle of poverty, and have way to much involvement in their politics to the point for ex. where water was privatized in Bolivia and people had no access to it. Most of these countries embrace higher education.
Fundamental religious culture, totalitarian culture, corruption culture, or any culture not based on freedom, equality, fairness, empathy, and respect for human rights all suck.
But what's wrong with a culture content with living in huts and gathering food? As long as they have the aforementioned criteria, there's nothing wrong with them. You don't want to live with them, fine, but they don't suck because their definition of advancement and happiness is different to yours!
@minhhale If you look at the reality of things, a culture that lives in huts, with no sanitation, health care, you will realize this culture is not going to survive that long, simply because today diseases caused by bacterial and viral pathnogens spread and evolve extremely fast. Being content with a high death toll in the tribe you live in is one thing, but the survival of such a tribal culture in the current world is questionable at best.
@Blodslav From personal experience, and from having lived in a country with not-so-great sanitation, I can remember 4 instances where I would have died at a very early age if not for modern medicine and antibiotics. Also do you realize the implication of modern vaccination? And the amount of vaccination in young children that is mandatory in order to not re-boot epidemics? You also have to take into account for the infastructure needed to produce these. Can't happen in a tribal society.
@minhhale I have no problem with people who WANT to live as hunters and gatherers, for themselves--what I have a problem with is people who want to force that kind of life on everyone else, the people who want to see an end to technology and an end to our way of life.
Xenophobe, and prejudiced generally refer to irrational or unreasonable dislike for certain people, or cultures. Those terms are often misused, as is Islamophobia, to silence reasonable, and rational dislike, and criticisms.
@Klingschor I agree with what your saying, but Christian culture treats women and homosexuals just as bad. Actually a lot of the African culture is derived from Christianity, Congo and Uganda in particular.
In Africa, certainly (I've witnessed it myself first-hand), but not in the "West" - Christian persecution of homosexuals in the West is (for the most part) quite tame compared to the treatment of homosexuals in Africa and the Middle-East.
@Klingschor I've witnessed it in Africa as well. Only a fool would say the treatment of homosexuals in the West are treated as badly as the Middle-East or Africa, but most of the West doesn't really follow a Christian culture. The West is a secular society. In the more secular Arab countries like in Jordan, Bahrain and the West bank, gays are treated far better than in a strict Muslim country like Saudi Arabia. The most homophobic cultures are often religious or nationalistic like Nazi Germany.
You're an American, and you have a problem with cultures that blame the "dominant culture" for all their misfortunes? You must be sorely ignorant about Latin America.
TheHunter14792 1 month ago in playlist Uploaded videos
@TheHunter14792 I'm not well-knowledged on Latin America, no. I'm mostly knowledgeable about what happens here in the U.S.
I know I want to visit Brazil sometime.
What does my knowledge of Latin America have to do with me having a problem with cultures here in the U.S. that blame the "dominant culture" for all their misfortunes (usually the same cultures that call higher education "indoctrination by the man")?
kizzume 1 month ago
@kizzume I mean that there are countries in Latin America that literally have fundamental problems because of U.S. involvement in those countries. The C.I.A. backed dictators who replaced peaceful & democratic governments during the Cold War. U.S. corporations keep people down in a cycle of poverty, and have way to much involvement in their politics to the point for ex. where water was privatized in Bolivia and people had no access to it. Most of these countries embrace higher education.
TheHunter14792 1 month ago
@TheHunter14792 Fair enough.
kizzume 1 month ago
@TheHunter14792 I see what I need to do. I need to put annotations on this video and in the description that I'm talking purely about the U.S.
kizzume 1 month ago
I just HAD to sub to this channel. Keep it up!
jerrylittlemars 1 month ago
Nail on the head.
LatigidGolana 1 month ago
I totally agree!
AdamLore 1 month ago
Well stated kizzume.
PampersPete 1 month ago
Fundamental religious culture, totalitarian culture, corruption culture, or any culture not based on freedom, equality, fairness, empathy, and respect for human rights all suck.
But what's wrong with a culture content with living in huts and gathering food? As long as they have the aforementioned criteria, there's nothing wrong with them. You don't want to live with them, fine, but they don't suck because their definition of advancement and happiness is different to yours!
minhhale 1 month ago
@minhhale If you look at the reality of things, a culture that lives in huts, with no sanitation, health care, you will realize this culture is not going to survive that long, simply because today diseases caused by bacterial and viral pathnogens spread and evolve extremely fast. Being content with a high death toll in the tribe you live in is one thing, but the survival of such a tribal culture in the current world is questionable at best.
Blodslav 1 month ago
@Blodslav From personal experience, and from having lived in a country with not-so-great sanitation, I can remember 4 instances where I would have died at a very early age if not for modern medicine and antibiotics. Also do you realize the implication of modern vaccination? And the amount of vaccination in young children that is mandatory in order to not re-boot epidemics? You also have to take into account for the infastructure needed to produce these. Can't happen in a tribal society.
Blodslav 1 month ago
@Blodslav Really good points. :)
kizzume 1 month ago
@Blodslav You're very very right. Good points.
kizzume 1 month ago
@minhhale I have no problem with people who WANT to live as hunters and gatherers, for themselves--what I have a problem with is people who want to force that kind of life on everyone else, the people who want to see an end to technology and an end to our way of life.
kizzume 1 month ago
@minhhale Many of us wouldn't have survived that lifestyle.
I certainly wouldn't have made it past my early teens without technology.
Technology especially, but also our culture, allows us to blossom.
Stephen Hawking would have been a runt, who would have been left to die in the cold, by his tribe.
The chronic illness I have would have made my brain mush by the time I was 18, and ghosts would have been blamed.
I'm more worried about getting into grade school and my research, instead.
AnonymousElektron 1 month ago
Xenophobe, and prejudiced generally refer to irrational or unreasonable dislike for certain people, or cultures. Those terms are often misused, as is Islamophobia, to silence reasonable, and rational dislike, and criticisms.
TheNakedAtheist 1 month ago
Continued...
In fact they are sometimes misused unintentionally by people who don't recognize that distinction.
TheNakedAtheist 1 month ago
Every culture sucks to some degree.
ChaoticSupernova 1 month ago
Some of the worlds cultures are not as advanced as western culture is. Their views are backwards and they are not as "enlightened" as our culture is.
Gamebuger 1 month ago
I agree. I detest the way that African culture generally views and treats women and homosexuals - I also detest Islamic Culture for the same reason.
Ultimately, though, the thing that I detest is Gender Roles and Stereotypes.
Klingschor 1 month ago 2
@Klingschor I should make another video about gender roles, it has been a while.
kizzume 1 month ago
@kizzume I believe that technology itself, is what has allowed society to evolve -- not the other way around.
AnonymousElektron 1 month ago
@AnonymousElektron It think it's both.
kizzume 1 month ago
@Klingschor I agree with what your saying, but Christian culture treats women and homosexuals just as bad. Actually a lot of the African culture is derived from Christianity, Congo and Uganda in particular.
DoctorFJK 1 month ago
@DoctorFJK
>"just as bad"
In Africa, certainly (I've witnessed it myself first-hand), but not in the "West" - Christian persecution of homosexuals in the West is (for the most part) quite tame compared to the treatment of homosexuals in Africa and the Middle-East.
Klingschor 1 month ago
@Klingschor I've witnessed it in Africa as well. Only a fool would say the treatment of homosexuals in the West are treated as badly as the Middle-East or Africa, but most of the West doesn't really follow a Christian culture. The West is a secular society. In the more secular Arab countries like in Jordan, Bahrain and the West bank, gays are treated far better than in a strict Muslim country like Saudi Arabia. The most homophobic cultures are often religious or nationalistic like Nazi Germany.
DoctorFJK 1 month ago