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OK, call it "Westen Culture" if you like.
Whatever you call it, it's hard to believe that the Danish culture was immune from what was going on in European culture over the past many centuries.
The only "claim" that I made about what you posted was that it was nonsense. But you never answered my question, do you expect Somalis (or anybody) to believe that nonsense? Is that what "assimilate" means to you?
Yes, I do expect Somalis to assimilate. You got a different boat for them to assimilate into? Or do you think everyone's culture is equally valid?
Theres good diversity and theres bad. And Im not just talking about tasty "ethnic" restaurants etc.
I'd argue that you are mostly talking about ethnic restaurants.
Surface Culture: Observable and palpable elements such as food, dress, music, dialect, and holidays. They are characterized by low emotional resistance to alternatives. Accepting alternatives does not create great anxiety. I can easily prefer lasagna to chitterlings without feeling that I've "abandoned" my own culture. Maintaining diversity in surface culture causes very little social disruption.
As they should. I suppose you are just insinuating that a "liberal" would accept that defense. Keep in mind that I live in a state where the Democrats had to work pretty hard recently to get marriageable age raised from 14 to 16.
I expect them to obey the law. That's all. "Assimilated" means to become integrated into a different culture, group, or society by adopting its customs, language, and attitudes. It really is a separate issue
Only if you are concerned with protecting what you call anglo-American culture--and I'm not necessarily saying that's the wrong thing to do--but just trying to find out what conservatives think that is. We are in a culture war, after all, so there is obviously some diversity of opinion.
Accept for the child sacrifices, you're describing the Europeans that came here.
Why wouldn't Denmark be a western christian culture country? The state religion have been christianity since 965, and still is to this day. It is in western Europe. It democratic, has a capitalistic economic system. What else are you using as a criterium?
Sure, just look around for nations using the name of Christ to justify conquest and exploitation. A Christian nation based on the Gospel rather than "biblical values" would have to call itself something else.
Attitudes toward nature is pretty broad and manifests in both shallow and deep culture. It can be politically contentious and drive large national decisions. Sometimes differences here end in state involved violence.
Yes these are where Im saying diversity is valuable - and potentially dangerous if extreme differences are indulged.
