I actually share the reluctance to say that my own culture is better than others because I too have post-colonial guilt. When your country has trampled on & exploited other countries, you get a little reticent about criticising them or claiming moral superiority of cultural normshttps://twitter.com/HPluckrose/status/995814886545543168 …
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Yeah, the best thing to do really is decide on which values are good for a culture to have, then promote them and praise them where they are. Westerners should be cognizant of how recent many of these good values are though.
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And even when we criticize or defend certain cultural practices, we'd do well to be less Western-centric. FGM doesn't look any better from a Japanese perspective. The global effort of "Western medicine" is not Western and never has been—let's call it "evidence-based medicine."
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Particularly as so many western countries are reliant on attracting doctors from India, Pakistan, Nigeria etc.
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...also, the existence or not of your guilt (although you are personally blameless) has no effect on objective reality. If there are no objective standards by which cultures are judged by other and judge themselves, anything goes..
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Oh, I think we can, you know... Also, your guilt speaks of an entirely Eurocentric world view. Europe did not invent colonialism and did not produce the most brutal or even long lived of the colonialist empires... and at least we’re not still at it..
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You just described Twitter
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However, some cultures have produced less immoral actions and ideas than others.
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