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Plus, we're not going to lose out on culture. We have atleast 10-20% of them living over here so it's not as if we're commiting genocide. We're just making the world a prettier place.
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Saying we won't lose a culture because we have people of a particular descent stored safely away seems ill-informed. Culture has nothing to do with one's DNA and everything to do with one's beliefs, rituals, way of life, etc. etc.... Part of the reason we're in a bind is because converting or destroying a culture by any means necessary leads to nothing but poverty, bloodshed and anger. A situation which breeds people who would advocate change. "Activists" in other words, some of whom could be militant enough to be called terrorists.
What if the Nazis had won and exterminated all the Jews? Would black people have been far behind? And what would become of a society--imagine--that had destroyed all ethnicities other than their own? The Nazi ideal of an aryan world comes true and then what? Forget the past and pretend that everything was legal and justified. Destroy those who oppose us and cross their names off the history books. You might say this is an unreasonable analogy, but remember McCarthyism? People who were suspected of having socialist or communist ties were black-listed and often either "dissapeared" committed suicide, or were even tried for what we would call Treason.
What happens to "people with beards" in the US after we've destroyed their culture and place of origin? They've got--as I see it--two options; change their way of life, or be crushed. And either way their identity as a people is lost. Which wouldn't necessarily be bad if the alternative wasn't a bigoted, egocentric and oppressing culture which rewards individuals and punishes communities.
How do you reason with a terrorist? Presumably you do damage control and end the situation which created the terrorist. In this case we cannot get rid of the situation with military force, because military force is what created it. Well, that and ignorance. But that wouldn't have been an issue if the American Ideology were not so depressingly set on viewing Might as Right. It's not even utilitarian, which at the least might keep us from murdering millions of people to keep a few dollars off gas for us. And now the US is the greatest threat the world knows (and that's not my pride speaking) because we've set ourselves up as an unquestionable authority.
Ugh. If only I weren't just reiterating what everyone already knows.