11-25-2015, 05:47 PM
(11-25-2015, 05:14 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: The whole situation where we have folks in this country, and other western nations, that try to force people to give up their cultural identities for the sake of assimilation makes me think of the story of Eleazer found in the Books of Maccabees. How under the rule of Antiochus IV, the Greeks tried to force the Israelites to give up their cultural identity to become all one people.
Whether through conquering or through immigration, trying to force people to give up a part of their cultural identity is wrong. Plenty of women in Islam cover themselves by choice as a sign of faith. They do find it empowering to not have men be able to see all of them. Reading these sorts of opinions from Arab feminists has been very interesting. Anyway, those that try to force that assimilation, that shedding of cultural identity, have plenty in common with the biblical villains against the Maccabees. Just an interesting thing to remember coming up on the festival commemorating the end of that oppression.
When people immigrate they are giving up part of their culture for another. If there is no assimilation then we will slowly become a copy of whichever region we have the most people. Which is the opposite of what any nation is.... At that point they will cease to be great.
Immigrants assimilate to be a part of our greatness for the American Dream. With no assimilation we lose what makes us Americans. It just promotes factions of whatever country they are from within the United States.
If we immigrated to Saudi Arabia we would assimilate to their barbaric rules .
