Saw a story about how one of the African nations had its deaf population develop their own sign language without knowing. They were trying to do support schools for the deaf with little success and asked an expert for help, the expert recognized that the deaf students were developing their own sign language (instead of what the school was trying to teach) . This prompted the expert to study the development of that language instead of just teaching them all American sign language as was initially intended (this choice was regarded as controversial).
I get that the aspect of self determination and development of their own culture and so on is very important, with a blind copying of western culture being in many ways culturally sterilizing and limiting.
But that leaves me wondering about the distinction between cultural imperialism and attempts to help.
Waiting around for everyone to reinvent the wheel in their local variation seems... Callous, yet at the same time I understand it's very important for people to do things their own way - I am well aware that white foreigners wanting to "help" has been a leading cause of so many problems.
Sorry for rambling, have been stuck trying to put this into words neatly for a few days.
I'm not actually that anti-woke, I think they have some good points badly executed, but there is something quite culturally imperialist about idpol. The way everything about it comes from America, to the point where British wokes repeatedly copy / paste references to "Latinx" and "Indigenous" people right here in Great Britain, which has a negligible Hispanic population and no Indigenous (unless they mean the Welsh, Scots and Cornish?)
Basically the Yankazoids haven't done enough to destroy our politics from the Right, they have decided to screw over leftist politics as well. So a country whose criminal justice system is hanging by a thread gets the "defund the police" malarkey, even though it was gangsters, not cops, who shot up a prominent BLM activist.
Americanization is a nasty process - solidarity is replaced by competition and alien social problems are superimposed on a society with a completely different history. Sure we have a lot of racism, but it's very different, for instance in WWII English people rioted against the segregation of African-American GIs and were very grateful indeed to colonial soldiers, very much including non-whites - and the blue print for British imperialism was developed not in a colonial war against Africans or Asians, but against other whites - our nearest neighbours, the Irish. This includes slavery and genocide, in case anyone's thinking I'm trying to wriggle out of acknowleging this.
But noo, we get the same stoy the Yanks have about how our entire history is about white people oppressing non-whites. In America I'm sure that's true, they certainly appear to be a deeply racist society, but it's far more nuanced here.
I'm not saying we're not total bastards, I'm saying the way we're total bastards is very different to the way Americans are, and I fucking hate the way that American solutions to American social problems are being foisted upon us, here in Not America.
BBC Reporting
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that Afghans have "broken the shackles of slavery" in a speech about cultural imperialism.
His comments criticising education in English in Pakistan came a day after the Taliban took control of the Afghan capital, Kabul, following days of rapid advances.
Pakistan was one of only three countries to recognise the Afghan Taliban Government in 1996, and is expected to make key decisions today at its national security committee meeting chaired by the prime minister and attended by senior military and intelligence agency officials.
Separately, Pakistan's major religious political parties Jamat-e-Islami and JUI-F congratulated the Afghan Taliban on their recent “success” and extended their full support and co-operation to the movement in Afghanistan. Some members of these religious groups also distributed sweets to celebrate the Taliban takeover.
The Taliban are also in control of the two major border crossings with Pakistan. One of them, the Torkham crossing, was briefly closed to pedestrians and trade after it was seized by Taliban fighters. Pakistan is not currently allowing any new refugees to enter the country and Afghans are therefore only allowed to return to their country via these crossings.
Earlier, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi met a delegation of Afghan political leaders from Northern Afghanistan who expressed their concerns regarding the inclusion of minorities and other ethnic groups in any future government of Afghanistan.
This is a question I have which I cannot find a direct answer to.
An Iron Curtain is acceptable to preserve culture.
Not a very exciting question but I can’t seem to figure this out or figure out how to search for it:
Is there a specific name for the strategy that certain empires use of not imposing their culture on conquered peoples, but allowing the subjects’ culture and social structures to remain for the most part intact?
I'm an American that lives in the Czech Republic. This is a bit of a rant and I've had whiskey earlier. I come from a highly progressive area of California (as in I read works in Critical Pedagogy etc. in high school as a required reading). Essentially had Idpol, critical theory etc. shoved down my throat from ages 12-18. Thankfully I figured out how toxic it was at around 15 years old. I moved to Czech Republic 4 years ago after graduating, its located in Central Europe and was formerly a Communist dictatorship (Czechoslovakia). Czech Republic is an extremely ethnoculturally homogenous country, its largest non White European minority is the Vietnamese (0.6-0.8% of the population) besides Romanis/Gypsies (1-2%). Czechs are like 80-90% of the population and multiculturalism is not a thing here really at all. The other largest minorities are Slovaks, Ukrainians and Russians etc.
After the George Floyd situation took place many Americans/Westerners living in Czech Republic started promoting #BLM and such within the country. Workshops were made for "white privilege checking" for Czech people and all sorts of shit like that including marches for #BLM etc. Due to a combination of factors such as history and demographics Czech Republic does indeed have a lot of racism (Czechs rank fairly high in surveys on the EU for xenophobia). Political correctness and "woke" culture doesn't exist here besides a few students in the philosophy faculty of the main university. Its proponents here are primarily Americans and other Westerners. Even the "left wing" parties (including the Communist Party which still gets seats in parliament) here are generally eurosceptic, somewhat socially conservative/anti immigrant and decisively not PC or "woke". Nonetheless many Czechs that I know personally while they of course do not support police brutality they found it rather puzzling that many Americans/Westerners in Czech Republic were essentially arguing that Czech Republic faces this American styled racial conflict of "white" vs "black". Many of these Americans/Westerners are the sort of people who will live here as students going to private universities, rent apartments that 90% of Czechs could never afford and of course live in a complete bubble - they don't hang out with Czechs, they don't learn the language and are of course advocates of "multiculturalism/social justice" in that they'd like Czech Republic to become more like America (because Czech Rep. lacks its diversity). C
... keep reading on reddit ➡Recently, it seems like there has been a push back on many ethical or ethically-motivated movements coming from sources who claim that these movements are a form of white, western colonialism. For example, veganism is characterized as an imposition on indigenous people, or the term “latinx” (often intended to recognize non-binary individuals) is seen as an imperialist attempt to impose western values on another culture. It seems obviously important to consider whether there is a colonial element to these movements, but it seems equally important to consider why we might think that, for example, cultural values should come before animal rights.
One obvious solution is for both parties to double down: those associated with the ethical movements might simply say “these acts are always unethical regardless of culture,” and those making claims of colonialism might say “these acts are always only unethical according to the values of your culture, not mine.” I am curious whether any authors have tried to reconcile the two positions by finding a point of intersection between the two: at what point does an ethical norm become more important than a cultural one, and vice versa?
With how many BLM Protests that happened last year in the continent, I can't help but wonder this, because I've heard many people on this sub say they don't have any race problems in Europe. But mention Gypsies and they'll be so much negative comments from what I've seen.
People around the world know America's Politics more than their own.
There were even Protests in Eastern Europe which is even more odd. Considering they are less woke than their western counter parts.
