Would you say you are tolerant of other cultures/religions? Do you embrace...

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...multiculturalism? If you do, can I give you a hypothetical situation (which might be true! who knows?!)

Lets say I come from a culture which requires that women do two things:

1. Wear headscarfes to cover their face because we dont want men to view them with sexual lust.

2. If they get raped for whatever reason they must either marry their rapist of commit suicide because we think that a women who has been raped is no longer pure and thus no one will want to marry her (I know this sounds bad but remember this is just a hypothetical!!!)

Question - If this was my culture and there were many of us in your country would you tolerate my culture?

If you say that you can tolerate or accept #1 (headscarfes) but not #2.. does this mean that you don't really tolerate my culture but you just pick and choose?... because multicultural acceptance is a package deal is it not??

So you either accept the culture as a whole or you break apart that culture and pick and choose which customs you accept... but if you did that then is that genuine multicultural acceptance???
Celestian Vega... NOWHERE have I mentioned the word morals!

i just wanna know to you accept my culture as it is or do you pick and choose what you like and reject what you dont like... If that is the case then can you really say that you tolerate multiculturalism?
Gregory S.. so your embracing of multiculturalism only goes as far as accepting cultures that you agree with... perhaps that 's just "biased multiculturalism"

So you embrace multiculturalism on a conditional basis... is that how people really define multiculturalism?
C. Vega... I agree that it is a moral issue!

But does that mean that a person who claims to embrace multiculturalism allows for their morals to override the acceptance or tolerance of other practices??? In other words morality is more important than blindly accepting another culture for what it is???

Is this what multiculturalists really want???
 
I will tolerate a culture so long as they do not hurt anyone and allow people the freedoms of life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, and freedom of religion.

That culture IS SICK. The men need more self control.
 
I think you accept the culture to the extent that it accepts yours. I.e. rape is against the law here, as are forced marriages. Wearing headscarves is not against the law.
 
You are confusing "respect" with "condone".

I'm not required to condone anything that I don't consider worthy of respect, whether it's cultural, political or religious.

And no, it isn't a package deal and yes, the adoptive culture has the right to place reasonable limits on the actions of new immigrants.
 
I think you're confusing morals with culture. However, If I were in a foreign country where this was not only culture but law, I would have no choice but to accept it.

Edit: Exactly. What I'm saying is that (especially in the West) your #2 scenario is not a cultural issue, but a MORAL issue!

Edit: "But does that mean that a person who claims to embrace multiculturalism allows for their morals to override the acceptance or tolerance of other practices??? In other words morality is more important than blindly accepting another culture for what it is?"

Of course it is!
 
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