Living here in America it's easy to assume that everyone wants to be just like us when it comes to our idea of democracy and freedom. The Bush Administration sent Karen Hughes out under the assumption that Saudi women would want to be like American women. Some of them did not.
This brings up a very valid question, who are we to try to change other cultures? Who are we to determine their level of happiness based on what we think they should feel? This whole "we know what's best for you" is wrong because it's based on us forcing our culture on other nations.
I have a problem with our Federal government having a position that is designed with the sole purpose of "spreading the American message". That goes above and beyond trying to diminish misunderstanding between American and Muslim societies.
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8 comments:
Lisa,
Living in America, the land of the free, we should know better than to impose our cultures in their own land.
Why, we’re the arrogant Americans, do like we do…
However, when other cultures come to our melting pot, we have every right to embrace our language. And, in the process, our culture will enrich their lives and theirs ours.
If our “American message” is true and of value, it can’t help but be incorporated as their own.
THAT’S how it is supposed to work…
Here it is a different issue, but going over there to the middle east to present the "message" is what I have a problem with.
Government is a product of and for society. A good product sells itself. People imitate and desire it for themselves, it doesn't require a pushy salesmen. A little marketing, maybe.
I find it ironic that in Bush's 2000 debates with Gore, he said again and again (criticizing Clinton for Bosnia) that we should not be the world police. He was right! At least not unilaterally. So where did he lose track of that vision? He believed in federal govt playing less of a role, letting states have more choices. What happened to that vision...now considering wider powers under homeland security, or a marriage ammendment.
It all comes down to cash, money, moola, the measuring stick that the Republicans use to see who has the most power. Democrats are the same way, but I'll pick on the Republicans today since they are trying run the world.
The more "Americanized" nations are in the world, the more money can be made and more people can get rich; or the rich will get richer. It is more of capitialization dressed up as Americanization. America is still the richest nation on Earth and the powers that be today are trying to make this country and the businesses in it richer. It is all about the cash.
While the not so rich protest and cry about "unjust" wars and that human rights are being trampled on, in the background there are quiet groups trying to get more money, since that equals more power. It is a formula that is a old as man. The search for power no matter what form it takes. Today's form is money.
The protests, though good intentioned, are distractions so the men behind the curtain (and I don't like the 'Wizard of Oz') can find new ways to make cashflow bigger and easier. So it isn't about Americanizing the Islam world, it is about making capitialism easier to run wild in the Arab nations. Now, is that right or wrong? That is a another questions for another time and I am just too tired to continue to type.
Hey Lisa, do you think that I can write this stuff on my own blog? ;)
Yes, you know I think that, you'd have me as a daily visitor.
:-)
I don't even want to be Americanized. At least not in the way that many seem to think is being American.
Yes, being "Americanized" - whatever that is interpreted to mean - sounds more like being turned into a mindless, unquestioning consumer.
I think I'll skip that, thank you very much.
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