Yadda wrote on Aug 8^th, 2013 at 12:54pm:




Relating to different cultures.....

IMO, we [Australians] should not tolerate, embrace, or seek to 'accommodate' persons who [themselves] 'celebrate' and belong to a culture which tolerates, embraces, or 'accommodates', lies, falsehood, corruption, and violence.

And though it is clear that all human cultures in this world to some extent do tolerate, or embrace, lies, falsehood, corruption, and violence - we can see that some cultures do this, much more than others.

Which human cultures ?

To identify them, look at those places [societies] in the world where human lawlessness, corruption and violence abounds!








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Proverbs 14:34
Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.


Proverbs 29:2
When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.



James Montgomery

miketrees wrote on Aug 4^th, 2013 at 10:48am:


So, you believe we should all practice Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture?  Which one?   

Then of course, Australian colonial settler culture is just a multiculture of English/Scottish/Irish/Welsh/German/Dutch/etc./etc....   

Brian Ross wrote on Aug 11^th, 2013 at 2:39pm:



Bombastic bollocks on stilts.

Traditional Western values also include respect for your elders (it's one of the Decalogue).
As for modern cultural practices, your 'scrapheap' is called social security and it doesn't exist in the third world. We do not 'practice ageism'. We look after our elderly much, much better than they do in the third world.


So what else do you like about Aboriginal, Iranian, Chinese, Vietnamese, Punjabi, Nigerian cultures that you are embracing in your own life. How did they actually change the way you live?

The truth is, you are profoundly ignorant of them and they have made no difference to how you live. You are just preening here to show off how tolerant and accommodating you are of everything you are clueless about. It is a lazy attitude, not to mention stupid.

Had you ever though for a few seconds about it, you would have realised that there is a very great deal in other cultures to which the proper response is intolerance and rejection. You have no problem recognising this when you look at your own culture but suddenly go all sh!t-brained when looking at other cultures. A blanket acceptance of every other culture is deluded.

So here's the supplementary question:
What aspects of Aboriginal, Iranian, Chinese, Vietnamese, Punjabi, Nigerian cultures do you reject, now that you are exposed to them? (or rather, you are exposed to newspaper articles about them).

Soren wrote on Aug 14^th, 2013 at 5:26pm:


Thats only true in so far as we have much higher standards of living for everyone - the aged included - than the third world. However its our attitudes and priorities that are lagging behind. Its the cult of individuality - family values are thrown out the window. So in regards to our elderly, we shove them off into nursing homes and visit them maybe a couple of times a year purely to ease our conscience. We pay exorbitant amounts of money so that we don't have to feel guilty or even think about our mums and dads and grandparents. Someone elses problem.

Compare this to other cultures, where the elderly are welcomed into the homes of their children, who selflessly look after them full time. The rationale is a simple nobility: they cared for us when we were children, now we return the favour when they need us.

Sure, in our culture we have the wealth and standard of living to provide comfort of sorts to our elderly - but it is a cold, superficial comfort, bereft of any real love and compassion, and borne out of selfishness. Our culture is a sick cult of individualism.

polite_gandalf wrote on Aug 15^th, 2013 at 1:58pm:


You're really one to complain about stereotypes when you post shlt like this.

Soren don't confuse my descriptions of familial and tribal communities in the third world, to the artificial union between a random cluster of these communities, ruled over by a corrupt capitalist elite - that we call "third world nations". Basically when you are describing a meaningful community in the third world, you don't look at the "country", you look at the tribe - and its within these that you see the community values I was describing.

... wrote on Aug 18^th, 2013 at 7:43pm:


no it doesn't.

polite_gandalf wrote on Aug 18^th, 2013 at 8:38pm:


Yu-huh.  What do you think all the various slogans with the "one people" theme mean?