Indeed. Now, whatever the answers to these questions how is it appropriate to minimize a person's investment in their culture by claiming they've merely overvalued the trivial accident of their birth place?Brian Peacock wrote: ↑Thu Dec 05, 2019 9:15 amWho's complaining about their culture being at risk? What's the risk and who or what is it at risk from?
Context is important here. Are we talking about some specific threat to the way of life and/or mode of expression of a particular demographic? Are we talking about a conflict between groups with a particular identity? Are we talking about cultural drift?
If, say, you're an upstanding member of the Southern Baptist community and you say that the nation's Christians and Chrisstian values are begin undermined by Californian sodomites you're, erm, fears and concerns are operating across several cultural contexts there.
These things are knotty. So again...
Who's complaining about their culture being at risk? What's the risk and who or what is it at risk from?
I've seen that sort of response many times. I don't agree with it. What say you? Is a person's pride, nationalism, desire to protect their culture, just a stupid feeling for nothing more than an accident?