Kubumba Tribe wrote:Purgatio wrote:
Because culture tends to be deeply-held, its an intricate part of a community's identity and sense of self. This goes about to the inherently-tribalistic nature of human beings, we attach our identity to certain 'group categories', including that of race and culture. Trying to 'change culture' is often a futile endeavour, you can't just beg a religious or cultural group to change their way of thinking about controversial moral, social issues like infant circumcision or child marriage or polygyny or homosexuality etc, its not a realistic approach to solve the problem of multi-culturalism.
Cultures have been changing since the dawn of man, it's not an impossible feat.
Sure, but (a) cultures generally don't change because of specific governmental policy or social engineering, they generally change in tandem with far wider social or technological trends occurring outside the control or ambit of governmental policy, and (b) these changes take time, how long do you think it will the Mormons, for example, to change their views on homosexuality? And that's just one example. What happens in the interim, when the cultural views of a group are not just out-of-step with the rest of mainstream society, but oftentimes in direct contradiction with those norms and civilisation values, is of course, tension, conflict and cross-cultural strife (sometimes manifesting in violence too and religious/cultural riots).
I was just talking about the oppression of the Ainus and Ryukuans.
