IMMIGRATION thread

[Seamus Fermanagh]

The ministry of Reichsculture were avid cultural supremacists.

There was no need for the polemics.

Isn't one of the values of Western Culture tolerance though? Rational thought, Balance.....
What exactly is western culture? I am sure the Wasps would have a different opinion of culture to southern papists, French secularists would have a different view again.

This, however, is a pointed and valid counter question. Using the phrase "Western Culture" is strategically ambiguous, with the "listener" generally applying the meaning they find most favorable to the term and thereby making it wonderfully inclusive. As with so many politicians who ask for votes by asserting they support "justice." They just carefully forget to define justice so that it can mean anything from "an eye for an eye" all the way through probation for your first murder conviction and thus garner everyone's votes.

I think there are common themes to Western Culture: relative freedom of expression, a good degree of separation between church and state, the value of personal property, the use of logic and the scientific method, etc. I suspect Frags holds with most of these themes. There are, of course, any number of variants within Western Culture as it is not a monolith. Moreover, the past of Western culture, particularly prior to The Enlightenment, was quite different in its values preferences.