A Mundane Example of Why Cultural Tolerance Fails
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A Qatar sheikh held up a British Airways flight at Milan’s Linate airport for nearly three hours after discovering three of his female relatives had been seated next to men they did not know.
The value of one person, in this case the sheikh, were superseded by the cultural values of the other travelers. Values of different cultures will inevitably lead to conflict which must be resolved. The aggregation of resolving these conflict will very clearly begin to show preference for one culture’s values over another one’s.
July 30th, 2007 at 7:44 am
Yeah, whichever culture has the most guns. That may be inevitable but I’m alright with spending a bit of time and effort on easing the transition.
July 31st, 2007 at 12:17 am
You seem to favor teaching evolution in the classroom so I’m happy to see you have no problem deferring to it’s wisdom in matters of culture.
July 31st, 2007 at 10:27 am
Evolution is awesome, but I’m also in favor of genetic engineering. I don’t know whether humans can actually do a better job at designing things like organisms or cultures than abstract processes such as natural selection could, but I do think I’m much more interested in the results of human attempts.
July 31st, 2007 at 5:49 pm
It’s unclear what you are tyring to say.