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G-Pop was perplexed to the point of being perturbed.
Sometimes people insist that it doesn’t matter how and where you were born, and then, in the next sentence, they will turn around and say you should honor how and where you were born by studying your culture.
Which one is it?
Perhaps it would be better to separate it off. For instance, learning your native language is brilliant. Also, pursuing the customs of your ancestry can be enlightening.
But the culture is where we have to be careful. How we treat other people based upon how we view ourselves is not negotiable.
There are many cultures that died because they treated people poorly. There are even cultures that exist today which in 200 years will cease to be because of their record on human rights.
After all, there is no Roman Empire, Greek city-states, Mongols, Huns, Angles or Saxons. Also, the Vikings have disappeared.
Even in the past few months, the American Southern heritage spawned from the Confederate states, which held slavery in place, has been attacked and maligned.
Needless to say, there is no Nazi culture.
There are only three rules to culture. If your culture does not honor these three, it is not worthy of study and it will not survive:
1. No one is better than anyone else.
If your culture believes that your brand of citizens are superior in any way, it will be evolved out of existence.
2. Give freedom to yourself and everyone else.
Any culture that negates the rights of others is eventually extracted from the human family.
3. Be creative in your choices.
If a culture is not evolving toward new answers to face the problems of the new generation, and instead insists on ancient documents for authenticity, then it is not long for this world.
G-Pop sees nothing wrong with learning your native language or following the customs, but until human beings share a common culture of acceptance, tolerance and creativity… we are fostering bigotry under the guise of patriotism.
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