re: Other cultures…..do you agree?

There is some truth to this but there are clearly some cultures that are superior to others in the modern world. It’s just Darwinian evolution.

Sure, I agree with that. There are a lot of different ways to live. I prefer relative freedom.

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Yeah, they love these third world cultures for the 2 weeks they stay there. If they had to live like the average person in that culture, they’d be on the next raft out of there.

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Ha! To be fair, the author has lived and traveled around the world more than a few times. I find his articles quite fascinating. Great responses thus far.

“Mostly through the Harvard Botanical Museum, he spent three years in the Amazon and Andes as a plant explorer, living among fifteen indigenous groups in eight Latin American nations, while making some 6,000 botanical collections.[2] He conducted ethnographic fieldwork among several indigenous societies of northern Canada. His work later took him to Haiti to investigate folk preparations implicated in the creation of zombies, an assignment that led to his writing Passage of Darkness (1988) and The Serpent and the Rainbow (1986), a bestseller. The book was used loosely as the basis of a Wes Craven horror film, The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988).“

Only a commie would downvote this.

We are unequivocally the most successful and widely imitated society on the planet. Across the world there are countless countries whose originating documents are modeled on ours. All too often, they have failed to prosper like the US has. Why? Because their culture doesnt match their aspirations. Without a commitment to white Western European values and practices, the rest doesn’t matter. We are a better culture than any before or since. Let’s hope we haven’t polluted it beyond recovery.

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Maybe if you’re comparing 1st world, civilized cultures. If you wanna start comparing developing nation cultures, you start seeing some awful things that don’t belong in any good culture

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This

There's a certain level of morality you expect with 1st world cultures.

While I generally agree with idea of the quote, it's too vague and I'm willing to bet the author has certain opinions on things such as: slavery, child exploitation, etc.

Some cultures today still practice those and its morally bankrupt to simply attribute it to being a "different culture".

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Other cultures

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I think it’s a nebulous statement. And a bit of a straw man.

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And what a tough concept for Americans and especially Christians.

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The world would be incredibly perfect without white American Chirstians, huh little guy?

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“The world in which you were born is just one model of reality. Other cultures are not failed attempts at being you; they are unique manifestations of the human spirit.”

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Word salad that means nothing