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Australian media hypocrisy over French inferno : Comments
By Bronwyn Winter, published 11/11/2005Bronwyn Winter argues the Australian press has used the French crisis to push a little local propaganda.
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I am European and I like the nice and kind aspects of Protestant culture.
You want to show me where and how I have stereotyped you – Redneck? You have stereotyped yourself. You clearly love the negatives of WASP culture and have a hatred for Muslim and those who refuse to stereotype, to demonise, all Muslims because of the actions of a few fanatics.
Show me where I have rejected and hate all Northern European culture. My comments sent some aspects of your stereotyping attitude back at you. You have trouble with irony don’t you?
Your argument of reverse racism is nonsensical. Certain aspects of redneck culture that I reject are culture bound. They have nothing to do with race. They are cultural and can be changed.
I do take your point re: the stereotyping of different cultures. It is a problem in discourse. You could help with the problem by considering some of your own supposed experiences re: stereotyping and discard the negative aspects of cultures whilst embracing the positives. It is wrong, for instance, to claim that the actions of a few terrorists is representative of all Christians/Muslims/rednecks.
I have argued before that there are aspects of various cultures that are superior to aspects of others. Behaviours such as kindness and niceness are superior to nastiness and malice.
Christian nations are terrorising innocent Iraqi folk just as certain Muslims are adopting negative behaviours towards others. I think there are many US Christians who are against the Coalition of the Killers and European Protestants who are all for multicuturalism. So you see that just because one disapproves of certain aspects of another's culture doesn't mean they hate all that culture. You Redneck, on the other hand, can't seem to grasp this simple fact.
You still haven’t presented a coherant argument to explain why democracy and multi-culturalism are not co-dependant.
Redneck you spend a lot of energy stirring up hated by trying to allocate negative behaviours of a minority to the majority. I think that there is a better way. (Cheerfulness).