Posted on June 13, 2008 by Filip Spagnoli
Some people urge us to accept and respect other cultures, other practices and beliefs unconditionally and without exceptions. Every cultural practice, whatever its content, is valuable and should be protected, even if this means giving up certain or all human rights. This means that rejecting intolerance in a certain culture is intolerant and rejecting discrimination [...]
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Posted on April 30, 2008 by Filip Spagnoli
Did you know that the original railway infrastructure in Africa, built by the colonizers, contained almost exclusively railways from the inland going to the sea? The purpose was obviously to take away as many resources as possible without considering the transport and commerce requirements of the Africans. Even today the nature of this infrastructure, which [...]
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Posted on April 6, 2008 by Filip Spagnoli
(by http://www.comics.com/editoons/lane/index.html)
Are human rights universal? Or is the worldwide application of human rights the imposition of the culture and norms of the West on other cultures? Universal human rights are said to imply the immoral destruction of other cultures, which in turn diminishes the well-being of the people of those cultures. Identity, especially cultural identity, [...]
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Posted on April 6, 2008 by Filip Spagnoli
(artist unknown).
If it is wrong to give the culture of the West an absolute value and to impose it beyond its original territory, then it is equally wrong to give cultural relativism and diversity an absolute value. Cultures and cultural diversity are not the highest values. Other things count as well and may sometimes even [...]
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Posted on April 6, 2008 by Filip Spagnoli
Voices
Wislawa Szymborska
You can’t move an inch, my dear Marcus Emilius,
without Aborigines sprouting up as if from the earth itself.
Your heel sticks fast amidst Rutulians.
You founder knee-deep in Sabines and Latins.
You’re up to your waist, your neck, your nostrils
in Aequians and Volscians, dear Lucius Fabius.
These irksome little nations, thick as flies.
It’s enough to make you sick, [...]
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