Are Some Cultures Better than Others? | 5 Minute Video
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- Опубліковано 17 вер 2017
- Are some cultures better than others? Or are all cultures and their values equal? Bestselling author Dinesh D'Souza, who was born in India and moved to America, explains.
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Do you think the United States and Western Europe are made up of imperialist, colonialist, resource-exploiting, greedy, grasping, brown-skin-hating people whose values are not worth defending?
If you think this question is absurd and that no one thinks this way, you would be very much mistaken. Many people do. And what’s even more disturbing, many of these people were born and live in the West. In other words, they have come to despise their own culture.
This thinking is the product of a doctrine widely taught in our schools. It’s known as multiculturalism, the belief that all cultures are equal. Or to put it another way, no culture’s values, art, music, political system, or literature are better or worse than any other.
But is this really true?
Some years ago, Nobel-prize winning novelist Saul Bellow created a major controversy when he said, “Find me the Tolstoy of the Zulus, or the Proust of the Papuans, and I would be happy to read him.” For this, Bellow was accused of racism.
The charge was nonsense. Bellow wasn’t saying that the Zulus and Papuans are incapable of producing great novelists. He was saying that, as far as he knew, they hadn’t. But just by raising the possibility that some cultures have contributed more than others, he violated the chief tenet of multiculturalism.
More recently, President Donald Trump expressed a similar sentiment in Warsaw, Poland.
“We write symphonies. We pursue innovation…We treasure the rule of law and protect the right to free speech and free expression…We empower women as pillars of our society and of our success…That is who we are…Those are the priceless ties that bind us together…as a civilization.”
For this, Trump was roundly condemned by the multiculturalists. How could he say these things, one writer wrote, “as if these were unique qualities to white-dominated nations, instead of universal truths of the human race across all cultures.”
Here’s the problem: Are values such as innovation, rule of law, free expression and women’s empowerment equally held across all cultures?
If all cultures are equal, how does one account for the fact that, for the last 500 years, it has been one culture-the culture of the West, and now of America-that has shaped the world?
Multiculturalists explain it in terms of oppression. Western civilization, they say, became so powerful because it is so evil. The study of Western civilization, they insist, should focus on colonialism and slavery--the unique mechanisms of Western oppression.
But colonialism and slavery are not uniquely Western at all. They are universal.
The British conquered India and ruled it for 300 years. But before the British, the Persians, the Mongols, the Muslims, and Alexander the Great had done exactly same thing - conquered large parts of India.
Indeed, the British were the sixth or seventh colonial invader to occupy India.
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any white woman who thinks all cultures are the same ...go to middle east, they have a very nice culture for you and women generally.
Majeed ALjohani yeah im middle eastern and love it there come here too we didnt satan destroy our family values
everywhere in the middle east except here in israel
My sister married a middle eastern that came to the United States and thought he could treat her like he was still living in his country. That's the problem when you go to another country and you are a guests you have to respect the culture. The immigrants that came to America in the early days were anxious to shed their old life to be American. Even know they kept somethings they dropped a lot of other things. My dad's grandfather that came over from Germany wanted to prove himself to his new country so bad he joined the union army. Learned English and started a business. The one's that came in the colonial days served as slaves for seven years ,got land and started to plant and grow to feed themselves.
@@hecke1959 Where was your sister's husband from?
@@user-oy2zg3bt6n and in Lebanon too (especially in Christian regions and cities)
The culture of reason and freedom is always better than others
유재규 korean culture is great
depends on how you define "better" in that context
@giannis South Korean culture is a binary between Western culture and traditional Korean culture. Full circle.
+jason dads I think he means more ethical
Asian countries have benefited a lot from the mix of their traditional values and western values. You could almost say its the very best.
I know of the bad sides, like suicide rates and such, but that is more related to overpopulation in a small country.
Don't forget that Japan also had an Imperial history, a good way to argue with "Colonialist and Imperialist were only White nations"
Saguntum-Iberian-Greek Konstantinopoli
Exactly, and Japan's colonial activities didn't just start after the Meiji Restoration either. They've had a long history of willingness to expand to the Asian continent.
Yeah, and they did tried that before in 1599 with Toyotomi Hideyoshi, but failed due to lack of supply lines during the Conquest (full conquest) of the Korean Peninsula.
I'm part Japanese and this is true. Even today, people in Japan, even some in my family, see themselves as superior to gaijins or foreigners.
And those horrible violent crusades were a reaction to the seemingly constant push toward Europe and nearby from - dun dun dun - expansionist Islam victimising and forcefully converting Christians.
And Japan was worse. Likely tenfold.
Western culture is NOT perfect...but I love the fact that it is continually trying to get there. So many other cultures do not even consider improvements and change.
What about black culture, young ppl like it nowdays
@@V3rse_Dev lol black nationalism
James oliver lol white people have no culture google white culture just do it 😭😭😭😭
Coreyson55 m expect a bunch racist ass white people to @ you and bring up statistics but yes African American has influenced some parts of the world
@@lamontfarley6858 White culture is an umbrella term for different cultures with European origins.
As an Arab speaking. The western culture is the best culture. Thats why most of us migrate there.
We migrate there because they keep coming to our country,recruiting our youth as students.
+china 漢 beste contrry You're exactly the wrong kind of person. Did you know all Americans are obese and ride scooters? Did you know all Chinese eat cat and drive like shit?
Yousef the profile pic works well with the comment.
Yousef here here!
I think it is for more econimic oppertunity
All men are created equal. But that doesn't mean their works are of equal merit.
Well said!
"All men are created equal" as long as you were white at the time.
not funny they killed are people
Narcis Enache ISIS is a great band. I saw them open for Tool once.
SpitefulAZ lmao no wonder why liberal party in western world are collaping and they wonder why. it 2018 mate nobody gonna fall for that liberal tatic yo only white can be racist is getting old yo. No wonder why eastern europe like russian arent fall for that. 😂😂😂😂
Soon as I read the title,Paul Joseph Watson was in my head saying "some cultures are better than others"!🇺🇸
Grand Ol' Bear same
Haha yes
Thas wayciss!
Exactly!
Same
Question: Are some cultures better than others?
Answer: Yes
No, because every culture has different uniqueness that other cultures don't have.
American culture used to have slaves and abuse them. Many places in the developing countries have things like sex slaves so, no its not about one being better than the other its about the time period you're looking at.
Absolutely not- hard disagree you nazi
@@unladpilipinas4085 Exactly, the west is the best culture since your allowed to free speech and have freedom to many other things, wheres if it was islam you would be beheaded. So yes, *SOME CULTURE'S ARE BETTER THAN OTHERS*
@@acupofwater1847 lol 😂 what?
Why the hell we don't talk more often about this? We have crazy people who defend the slavery of middle east as something normal. Disgusting.
b-but abolishing their slavery is imperialism
Dr. Furter I don't care if their country loves slavery. The fact they are trying to say that their slavery culture is better than ours or forcing us to accept them bringing to our country is the problem.
Dr. Furter did you really understand what I said? These people come to MY country and demand we give them privileges and respect their crazy culture while they disrespect our religion and country. Our flag has a freaking white cross on it and they demand we remove it the symbol our ancestors died in the fight against muslims.
Finland?
Ap Tsag I am Greek :)
Facts don't care about your feelings.
Nope
+Grantelbart
+Christopher Soltis
Is that an argument? "No." In The Qur'an it says to kill gays and that slavery of Non Muslims. Do you want that here?v
How is Prageru lying? About what?
BABATURI Then acknowledge the fact of all the countries the US has overthrown which results in destabilizing regions.
+KnightofAntiquity The Protestant, Mormon, and Catholic Churches have already reformed, most Christians no longer think that, although the same cannot be said of Islam, over 70% of Muslims worldwide in Muslim Majority countries support Sharia law.
Studying this as an adult has made me realize I was lied to thorough my entire education while growing up in the US.
Paul Joseph Watson did a very similar, albeit, more sarcastic, video several years before this. I think it was called, " All cultures are not equal, some are better than others."
Both of these are worth watching.
I’ve seen that one many times. It is worth watching.
Amazing video. Greetings from Venezuela. The country that rejected western values and capitalism and had to face reality in the end.
We need voices like yours, because a lot of liberals here in America think Venezuela is heaven.
Alejandro Medina Ojalá que estén mejor.
Relax, in the end, we gonna annex you.
If this is not sarcasm - that is the reason why people HATE America with their guts. "America is best country in the world. It brought prosperity everywhere"
Oh... I hope Americans will open their eyes some day. And notice WHAT their country TRULY brings by desposing "tyrants". And may be also learn HOW America got big load of cash that let it be greatest economy (WW2, that's how. Sell, sell and sell weapons and other goods to those who need them).
Bravo
FActS DoN'T cARe AbOUt YOuR FeeLiNGs.
Marcel Huchwajda
It's history and facts
Bryce Raber But my Grammer Nazi cares about your capitalizations
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Marcel Huchwajda but it’s the truth
People don'u understand the joke lol
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Shadowtrooper1166 .
NOT liberals leftist
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We didn't start slavery - some did keep slaves - but we ended it, as well - with a hell of a lot of bloodshed. If dying for the sins of some of your fellow countryman isn't repentance, I don't know what is.. There are slaves all over North Africa and the Middle East, right now..
@@santouchesantouche2873 Why are they fighting tooth and nail to come here, exactly..? 😂
@@CaptiveReefSystems probably because the US has destabilised south America for decades... Out and out interfered and installed puppets and murdered alot of resistance. How can you have a stable democracy if a country is active destroying your democratic structures?
Most people were indentured slaves, who served seven years to pay for their passage. We worked our way up the ladder to provide for ourselves. That what slavery was about feeding your self, working for your food. We still go to work for our food.
@@santouchesantouche2873,Mexicans were never slaves because, it was their government that sent them over. I had friends that came worked and moved up the ladder just like every indentured slaves that came and every slave .If you work for money to buy food, your a slave. That's what slavery was feeding yourself and not the government feeding you.
Emotion, feeling or logic.
Being an Indian myself, I couldn't have agreed more with Dinesh! The west is great because of its ideas and culture.
It could be said for west until 60 years ago... But now they are going down...
Yes today's west is good, but does it have the best culture? NO.
+Max Power,
You keep on bragging on about how great "secular culture" is, but you have yet to define it. What is it exactly? If it's the culture the West has today, then you're wrong:
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Not very good, is it?
Secular culture is leading to the virtual death of the west
The west of 100, 200 and 300 years ago was the west which ruled the world, the west of today is pathetic (at least europe is, but america is pretty screwed up too)
What about cannibalistic tribes? Are they equal to western society?
No way.
Yes. All human life has equal value, and these tribes and cultures play a crucial role in understanding our existence as human beings. I suggest maybe taking an intro to anthropology course for more information, as it's too much to contain in a youtube reply. But there is evidence of westerners eating other human beings (even if it's for survival, it's still cannibalism). Also, consider organ donation. Is this not a form of consumption, the literal taking of another person's flesh into your own body?
Would you eat another human being to survive? The Donner party did it. Were they not also western?
+Tyler Baratka,
1. They key phrase here is TO SURVIVE. Some tribes eat other humans simply because it's part of their culture and they get very sick from doing so. Even when it is to survive, it's disgusting and it's a last resort.
2. Getting an organ implant is not cannibalism because one does not eat any human body part in the process of getting an organ implant. Stupid question.
3. Not all human life has equal value, unless you can convince me that Hitler's life is worth as much as Churchill's life.
They have equal eating beliefs. They think westerners taste just has good.
This man has immigrated from India and used the term "our values" because he is an American at heart. He is probably a greater American than most of us.
Nope he is not, hes a Zionist Israel First
@@tahahagar7664 Why is supporting Israel being Zionist? I'm Indian, and my brother-in-law is a Lithuanian Jew. His family was murdered in the Holocaust. The Israeli government does not intentionally target Palestinian civilians. They attack from a defense point any time Hamas, a recognized terrorist organization and despised by many Israeli and Palestinian civilians alike, initiates the attack. So the Israeli government responds to prevent Hamas from thinking their unprovoked attacks are successful. Any time the Israeli government tries to initiate conversations with the Palestinian leaders about allocating them land, the Palestinian leader (which is Hamas) refuse to negotiate because they believe the entire country belongs to them. They forget the millions of Jews, Christians, and other minority religions that too call Israel home. Not just Muslims.
Cultures can degenerate. In ancient times Chinese culture was one of the best cultures in the world. However Chinese culture keep getting worse instead of getting better over time thanks to the constant control and poisoning of tyrants and their huge governments.
For example, Confucius said ‘The king should behave like a king, and citizens should behave like citizens, just like what our ancient tradition says’. 1000 years later his ‘students’ said ‘the people should do whatever the emperor says and the emperor don’t have any responsibilities’, as if anyone else in China were his slaves. Zhuang Zi said ‘let’s transcend life and death by achieving internal peace’. 1000 years later his ‘students’ said ‘let’s live forever by taking magical pills’, and those who took their magical pills often die of heavy metal poisoning.
Cultures not only can degenerate, they can even be destroyed. Buddhism had been very popular in India and today’s western China, until Muslim invaders came. As Buddhism focus on the internal world of individuals, it can’t resist Islam at all. Hundreds of years later, Muslims entirely rooted out Buddhism from that region, using both violence and constant discrimination against non-Muslims. Nowadays only a tiny fraction of the population there is Buddhists.
People of the west should understand how fortunate they are. Western Europe could have been conquered by Muslims, and Christianity could have been controlled and poisoned by Roman emperors, but neither of that have happened. They should defend their culture, while other people still trying to figure out how to fix their own.
*_Don't forget Christianity, it destroyed several other Pagan religions in Scandinavia._*
Well, modern China imitates the west and lies that it's still a socialist country, when in fact the socialist elements are the major source of Chinese cultural degeneration. It WAS a powerful culture but just an illusion nowadays.
the sad truth is the west is falling down now without a single shot being fired. The muslims world must be laughing its ass off.
@The Mr. Man the Whataboutism idiot
Just like how freedom slowly becomes a form of being lost and neglected.
The good things about multiculturalism affecting the west is:
- Food
- Architecture
- Sports
- etc
The bad things about multiculturalism affecting the west are:
- Politics
- Economics
- Societal structure
Great vid Dinesh! :)
DanTheMan Whites can follow recipes just fine, so that "food" one may be removed as well ;)
Io I've never seen a white owned Chinese restaurant, but God knows these days there would be shouts of cultural appropriation before a meal was cooked in one ;)
Which is odd since quite a bit of the cooks in those Chinese restaurants are Mexican line cooks. lol
The bad things:
-No assimilation
-horrible human rights
-backwards values
Also you can remove architecture as the west has enough of its own also you can remove sports unless you talking about America
Yea women empowerment is a universal truth across all cultures. Look at all the Muslim women who feel empowered by being stoned. Stoning builds character.
The last caliphate ended almost 100 years ago unless you count the Islamic State of Iraq, I have not seen any women that willingly go to a sharia court. The historic caliphates launched several campaigns against non-Muslim nations, most of them unsuccessful which is why Western Europe was Islam free for centuries.
Throwing massive numbers Jihadists against the non-Muslims can only get you so far. The Crusades were successful in wiping out Islam from Spain. I'm not that impressed that the Muslims managed to defeat a much smaller number of Crusaders who's only reinforcement is over a thousand miles away from the Middle East which only took 200 years.
Syed Ahmed I am pretty sure that is not true.....
Syed Ahmed However nice it may sound, it is not happening in islamic countries.
I Can't Understand How The muslim Religion Still Exists... It's So Primitive...
Maybe It's Just Fear For Disobeying allah, But Why Fear Something That Does't Exist? WTF
Pedro
It's not the religion however, it's the "fossilized" brain of man who doesn't want to even know what is Islam.
Ask a non-Muslim about 72 virgins myth, he'll start spewing non sense. Ask about Ayat al-Kursi, he'd stand there staring.
I have said for years, and told my kids that I am NOT racist, but I am a culturalist! This is why I hate the hip hop culture for instance.
Yes, too many people confuse culturalism with racism.
They probably distrust you as you're white, heterosexual and - OMG! - male :-)
But 'culturalism' as you say it is just one step close to racism.
The roots of racism have always been due to a reproach of other people's cultures. Biological racism is a byproduct of disapproval of other people's cultures.
Well as Christian, I say there is nothing wrong with Hip Hop per se, it's the values that the music usually spreads.
But Hip Hop can be transformed if the music with such a rhythm expresses christian values; (there is even christian Hip Hop, for example).
@BoundSpirit thanks!
But you love Kid Rock and the Beastie Boys, go figure...
I love that, Multiethnic not multicultural. "Christmas is Christmas is Christmas!" - Stanley, The Office
I'm think I'm slowing becoming red pilled.
+christopher snedeker please explain
+christopher snedeker
explain that believing your culture is better than other cultures "antagonizes others." Holding any opinion on something "antagonizes" the other side?
Being redpilled usually refers to people choosing to form their own opinions on issues rather than stick to what they have been taught and not thinking too deeply about "taboo" subjects.
+christopher snedeker
never answered my question
Imperial Guard , speed it up! your needed
Not only is slavery not unique to the west, it was the west (especially Britain and the US) that mostly ended slavery-well, except for that still going on in the middle east.
Really ? Do you know why Abraham Lincoln abolished Slavery? Read his famous letter to Horace Greeley.
Whodini Jonas to gain the majority of vote so the USA wouldn't split up into two countries which would there by take away power from Lincoln. Why do you ask, everybody who's educated knows this.
I approve that Lincoln do that to gain money and power for Unionist to win a war that they were losing, but don't forget about christianity values, French revolution and other cultural things that caused equality between all people. In contrast middle east conturies left slavery becuse of influence of western conturies.
Ancient Persians abolished slavery thousands of years ago but Islam reintroduced it when Arabs conquered Iran
Genghis Khan - Christianity does NOT APPROVE of slavery, but the texts (which I assume you are referencing) deal with the reality of slavery in the world at the time of the writing. They are recommendations of ethical Christian behavior within cultures that already have slavery as an established institution, but here Paul is explicit that one should not make oneself a slave (often through debt in ancient cultures) as liberty is a preferred situation for all peoples.
1 Corinthians 7:17 "Nevertheless, each person should live as a believer in whatever situation the Lord has assigned to them, just as God has called them. This is the rule I lay down in all the churches... [v.18-20 is superfluous circumcision stuff]
21 Were you a slave when you were called? Don’t let it trouble you-although if you can gain your freedom, do so. 22 For the one who was a slave when called to faith in the Lord is the Lord’s freed person; similarly, the one who was free when called is Christ’s slave. 23 You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of human beings."
Christianity is not mainly about how humans organize themselves politically. It is not a political religion, but there is a preference for freedom of conscience over persecution, but that is oppressed to not give up hope of redemption and salvation. It is not a call to endorse slavery but how to bear up under its burden. Christianity was born into a world where slavery was ubiquitous and Paul's recomendation was not to revolt (100 years earlier the Roman slave revolt had ended with ten's of thousands crucified, and murdered) but to revolutionize compassion so that slavery would eventually fade away (as it did in Christian Europe for 1500 years until the much lauded process of secularization began.)
There... you no longer have an excuse to remain ignorant on the issue. From here on out if you peddle that nonsense consider yourself an enemy of the truth.
I have a friend from Kongo who was adopted by an American family in the US. She's so happy to be here, and gets to enjoy many great opportunities. She doesn't miss her original country, because of its violence and corruption caused by evil people.
Many Americans bash on their own culture, because they don't actually travel to less fortunate ones, and see for themselves.
Dinesh makes a good point, however, I think that the west wasn't the only culture that pioneered science, but, good vid
Umm wireless communications, modern metallurgy were from Indians. Some even say an early inspiration of rockets was found in Indian military. But the use of rockets as firearms originated long back in China. Though the Indian versions were direct inspiration to modern day rockets. NASA even has a painting of it as a tribute.
Sohan Desai China has nothing to do with rockets or guns.
@@magnus08f250 the gun powder was invented in China
Sohan Desai which is completely different powder. They used it for fireworks.
@@magnus08f250 fireworks and firearms. I believe in the first millennium the Chinese (and later Mongols) had the most powerful artillery. Composite bows, repeating crossbow and gunpowder.
Am I missing something?
I couldn't agree more with Dinesh. All cultures are not equal; ask your legally immigrated great grandparents.
toOnybrain my great grandparents was born in the same village their ancestors were 300 years earlier
My great-grandparents came from northern Italy, where the culture was and is not THAT much unlike that of the United States. But okay.
Cs go giveaway Guy ....dude wtf.... what's up with that self hate...
Cs go giveaway Guy you are not Chinese.
The Ottoman Caliphate was itself a destructive empire. Millions fled. Albanians to Italy, Serbs to Austria, Greeks, Armenians slaughtered
Dinesh is an American gem. Honestly. Well Prager too.
Dinesh D'Souza is a convicted criminal who has such contempt for American democracy he defrauded it.
Dine sh is the face of Multiculturalism...just saying
Go check out Jordindian! Different Dinesh there!
I'm Nigerian and I know for a fact that america is the light on the hill and the west has the best culture imaginable.
You’ve never heard of Japan I see
I really hate people who scorn their own culture
@ksnebjdkl it’s the race that’s dying, not the culture, or are you blind to how the younger generation of Americans is more or less obsessed with Japanese culture (anime, manga, light novels, and visual novels)
@Happy Panda doesn’t change the fact that their culture is still dominating ours. Facts don’t care about your feelings after all.
Oladokun... I'm afraid your comment is going to trigger many progressives. They only thing worst than praising America to a progressive is mocking a 3rd world culture.
"Only the West abolished slavery"
*Points to Ancient Persia*
If you believe this, then you probably know nothing about the prison industrial complex in America.
@@salveyjose3432 He means that Ancient Persia abolished slavery before the West, although Wikipedia claims that this is a false translation of the Cyrus Cylinder
Riad Burctoolla
It doesn’t look like they made much of an effort to keep it that way...
Unless, Persia is a proto-West.
You can clearly sense the Dunning-Kruger effect and Kipling's Syndrome here.
Are Some Cultures Better than Others?
Yes.
I find myself in the centre-left. Before watching this I was doubtful to agree with anything in this video. But you know what? I agree with everything mentioned. Brilliantly explained
Bram06 did you know that both Maruya India and ancient China banned slavery?
Justinius 777 Wang Mang did it
Multiculturalism does not mean that all cultures are equal, but that all cultures coexist peacefully without individuals or group losing their identity. It says nothing about the "value" of a culture over another! Unfortunately, in this video, they make it sound like that.
This channel brings so much comfort to me because it has such good reason. I hope reason becomes stronger in the united states
Considering my generation is adopting aspects of Japanese culture I’d say that’s likely, hopefully we also adopt a culture of honor
ask yourself what culture do you feel comfortable and would like to live in
GLOBAL PEACE INDEX
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Peace_Index
I'm amazed at the top 7, no Asian nations
Japan has a modern peaceful culture. Little violence and high respect for people. While not perfect, the lack of violence makes it a good place to live. I don't live in Japan but I prefer my own distinct way of life. I am also non-aggressive. I do not have your traditions or cultural habits and I have happy to not possess them.
Indian(my own) and western only none else
@@mickeydrago9401 singapore???
@@kajtekz5540
They have some pretty strict laws, wouldn't want to be caned for spitting on the sidewalk
It is a low crime city for sure
From Nation Master;
Murder rate,
Comparing USA:
812 times more than Singapore
Just watched "America: imagine the world without her" yesterday and it was amazing, keep being awesome Dinesh
The OK Gamer 69 so you saw how the nazis taking over the world and such would be because there was no America to fight them.
Techno Squirrel Oh, Ha-ha... America is the only reason you are allowed to say that.
Dude, dinesh wants to repeal the civil rights act, he's an idiot and a corrupt prosecuted criminal
Where do you have that information from? Is there a video I have yet to see of him talking about his wishes to repeal the civil rights act?
Here twitter.com/UrbanAchievr/status/897100818738020355
There is an OBJECTIVE test of which culture (or society, at least) is better. Nobody's emigrating from the US to move to Iran. I wonder which way net immigration between the US and China flows. If all immigration controls by every country on Earth were voided tomorrow, is there any doubt which countries would be swamped with immigrants? This is an empirical test, where the standard is, "How do people who have lived under many different cultures prefer to live?"
Abandoning one's home and moving to a land where one is likely going to arrive at the bottom of society, oftentimes not speaking the language well, in the hope of partaking in the blessings of the new land . . . this is a strong statement about the existence of social (and by extension cultural) inequality.
White people go move to Japan though, and there are lots of black guys in China
Miguk Moonpark Very few in comparison....There is a massive difference between going somewhere to work or being, and moving somewhere to become a citizen of that state.
Miguk Moonpark Try answering the question instead of cherry picking.
How many are desperately looking for chance of settling in Africa or the Middle East.
Why is that so, & how long did this trend last..?
Just quickly typing, the reason people don't move to countries such as Japan is because they make it near impossible for you to live in Japan as a citizen and force you to give up your national identity from your "mother country"
So, what you're saying is that Japanese culture (which is where the laws spring from) is closed to outsiders? Sounds "superior" to me. BTW, they don't force you to give up your national identity, in fact, as a CULTURAL matter, they won't allow you to. Japanese-Brazilians, 100% descended from Japanese immigrants to Brazil in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, are NOT treated as "Japanese". They are treated as foreigners. CULTURALLY and legally.
In the 1960's, when India was going through the worst time, when there was so much food shortage that we would be known as the Begging Bowl of the World, there arrived in India an American biologist named Dr. Norman Burlaug. He walked amongst the peasants of India, helped in growing improved wheat strains, and started an agricultural revolution that eventually made us self-sufficient.
I am an Indian, and I am deeply emotional about my (Indic) civilization. I love and cherish it. But in no part does this induce me to hate or dislike the West. I am an admirer of Western Civilization. The West has been a boon for humanity, and deserves that recognition.
The West is not just Britain, you know.
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I can literally feel my brain shrinking while watching this.
Even though I am of South Asian ancestry, I'll take my citizenship in the U.S. over South Asian values and principles because western culture is the best culture.
Western culture is not best culture
EliteManiac5000 south asian makes it so that we respect all our ancestors and parents, do the americans dp that or coz of theor pursuit of happiness they dont even often see their parents once they grow up but we south asians respect them the most.
i am western and believe that family is important, but enlighten me, isn't it so that the ones killing their foetusses are the lefty culture haters, or maybe in your part of the world, people who wanted a boy, and got a girl, so what they drown them, or put a pin in their brain, is that correct, or am i mistaken,
how dare you insinuate that we only care about wealth, and even so the most wealthy usually got there through family suport, as my family did
Louis VDB I agree with you all the way.
EliteManiac5000 south asian has a stronger values as freedom is not much but it is also about discipline
I usually skip most, if not all UA-cam ad's. But whenever a Prageru ad shows up I always watch the whole thing through, each one actually adds value and tells you more about certain things/situations. I hope to see more stimulating ads such as this that make you think.
Val corsi yes sir. so true.
My research shows they dropped the ball on what began the Civil War, tho'
You do realize that prageru is propaganda right?
Not to be taken seriously, it's for entertaining purposes only.
RockBand that's false. They did not drop the ball on that subject. And I should know, as I used to hang out with a number of Native ppl who talked about this little known part of history. Columbus wasn't on the mainland, but the islands had Native ppls who were related to the mainland tribes genetically. QUOTE
The ensuing Age of Discovery, with its expansions of empires and exploitations of New World natural resources, was accompanied by the seizure and forced labor of human beings, starting with Native Americans.
Appraising that commercial opportunity came naturally to an entrepreneur like Columbus, as did his sponsors’ pressure on him to find precious metals and his religion’s contradictory concerns both to protect and convert heathens. On the day after Columbus landed in 1492 on an island in the present-day Bahamas and saw its Taíno islanders, he wrote that “with fifty men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.” Soon the African trade was changing life in Spain; within another hundred years most urban families owned one or more black servants, over 7 percent of Seville was black, and a new social grouping of mixed-race mulattos joined the lower rungs of a color-coded social ladder.
Columbus liked the “affectionate and without malice” Arawakan-speaking Taíno natives. He found the men tall, handsome, and good farmers, the women comely, near naked, and apparently available. In exchange for glass beads, brass hawk bells, and silly red caps, the seamen received cotton thread, parrots, and food from native gardens. Fresh fish and fruits were abundant. Glints in the ornaments worn by natives promised gold, and they presumably knew where to find more. Aside from one flare-up, there were no serious hostilities. Columbus returned to Barcelona with six Taíno natives who were paraded as curiosities, not chattel, before King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella.
The following year, Columbus led seventeen ships that dropped 1,500 prospective settlers on Caribbean beaches. As they stayed on, relations with local Indians degenerated. What was soon imposed was “the other slavery” that the University of California, Davis, historian Andrés Reséndez discusses in his synthesis of the last half-century of scholarship on American Indian enslavement. First came the demand for miners to dig for gold. The easy-going Taínos were transformed into gold-panners working under Spanish overseers.
The Spaniards also exploited the forms of human bondage that already existed on the islands. The Caribs of the Lesser Antilles, a more aggressive tribe, regularly raided the Taínos, allegedly eating the men but keeping the women and children as retainers. A similar discrimination based on age and gender would prevail throughout the next four centuries of Indian-on-Indian servitude. As Bonnie Martin and James Brooks put it in their anthology, Linking the Histories of Slavery: North America and Its Borderlands:
North America was a vast, pulsing map of trading, raiding, and resettling. Whether the systems were pre- or postcontact indigenous, European colonial, or US national, they grew into complex cultural matrices in which the economic wealth and social power created using slavery proved indivisible. Indigenous and Euro-American slave systems evolved and innovated in response to each other.*
Taínos who resisted the Spanish were set upon by dogs, disemboweled by swords, burned at stakes, trampled by horses-atrocities “to which no chronicle could ever do justice,” wrote Friar Bartolomé de las Casas, a crusader for Indian rights, in 1542. Against the Caribs the Spaniards had a tougher time, fighting pitched battles but capturing hundreds of slaves as well. Columbus sailed home from his second voyage with over a thousand captives bound for slave auctions in Cádiz (many died en route, their bodies tossed overboard). He envisioned a future market for New World gold, spices, cotton, and “as many slaves as Their Majesties order to make, from among those who are idolators,” whose sales might underwrite subsequent expeditions.
*Thus did the discoverer of the New World become its first transatlantic human trafficker-a sideline pursued by most New World conquistadors until, in the mid-seventeenth century, Spain officially opposed slavery*. And Columbus’s vision of a “reverse middle passage” crumbled when Spanish customers preferred African domestics. Indians were more expensive to acquire, insufficiently docile, harder to train, unreliable over the years, and susceptible to homesickness, seasickness, and European diseases. Other obstacles included misgivings by the church and royal authorities, which may explain Columbus’s emphasis on “idolators” like the Caribs, whose status as “enemies” and cannibals made them more legally eligible for enslavement.
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www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/11/24/indians-slaves-and-mass-murder-the-hidden-history/
Hope this helps you to get how real the enslavement ofNative ppls was. And BTW, there is still kidnapping of Native young ppl, mostly girls and young women, by sex traffickers here in the USA. It's a very real problem.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/19/minnesota-native-american-women-trafficking-police
Michael. No. That's incorrect. I've found a number of their videos to not only to offer me opportunities for learning more about certain subjects, but in my own later fact checks, I've found their message to be pretty clear of doubt. I just disagree with their take on the pre-Civil War Confederate states' secessionist views.
I wish this type of videos were more mainstream
18 teen not many ppl want to educate themselves, they rather watch some mainstream music etc
"Let's just employ a brown man to narrate this video, then liberals can't say that it's racist". 😂😂😂😂
Dinesh, you are the treasure that India has given to us. You have assimilated so fast and became more American than majority of US soil-born Americans.
and assimilation is a good thing how?
yes the west is by far the best in every area
KRS-TWO yes...
I would not say it is the best in *every* area, and it certainly hasn't always been the best (just look at Europe during the dark ages, superstition and ignorance abound), but eurocentrism and the success and development of western society above others in the world has been the case since the renaissance and industrial revolution.
damian77777 no, you can also look at West Africa, mainly Cape Verde and the southwestern States
From the past 500 years until current situation, yes it is! But I afraid, it won't be the best anymore if the West abandon Athens and Jerusalem..
Not the best in EVERY area but it has the best base of values for it to become the nurturing ground for great ideas and progress. That freedom is a double edged sword tho; fertile grounds also grow bad weeds like this generation of socialist libs
I liked this video, and this man is a indian, so no one calls prageru etnocentrist and racist.
it's called tokenism
Sometimes Dinesh is just plain brilliant. This is one of those times.
For everyone who is saying that multiculturalism is the peaceful co-existence of cultures and the sharing of ideas and values, please know the difference between multiculturalism and globalism.
Bindu Sohan Please explain. I am dumbfounded.
Micaela Salgado Same
Both impossible. The only reason The United States is the absolute best place on the face of the earth is due to the strength our nation's inherent ideals, and their presence in all citizens' mutual pursuit of the American Dream... Regardless of our (EXTREMELY concentrated) violent crime, poverty, homelessness, etc. per capita. Our ideals transcend creed and ethnicity and have made it possible for any person to immigrate, assimilate, and truly embrace them as their own.
The fact of the matter is; despite whatever negative statistics you pull from imright.com to try and refute this claim? This country is STILL the best in comparison to all others, and due to the implicit sovereignty of each individual, this will not change until our next Great internal conflict.
None of this is to say that other countries are not also great in their own rights, like Chile, and many other Latin American countries that are doing very well. Finland and Estonia. Japan, despite it's "productivity at the cost of all else" environment (hence their extraordinarily high suicide rate). South Korea. Even Saudi Arabia seems to be gearing up for some very positive development. The list does indeed go on.
However, just as The Winchester 1873 was "The Gun that Won the West", The United States 1776 is "The Country that Won the World". Everything great about modern Western Civilization comes from us; because as Dinesh indicated, everything great about The United States comes from Athens and Jerusalem. We frequently make mistakes, yes, but we remain the beacon of True Liberty for the World. We will assuredly be the last Great Empire to fall on this Earth, because our failure means the Nuclear destruction of the planet.
One thing is certain; Islam considers us their enemy, as they consider all their enemy. This is a faith that has not allowed for an Enlightenment period. Muhammad's tenets explicitly demand deception, violence, and subjugation against all infidels. Although there are of course many believers who are much more concerned with going about their daily lives and living in peace, the number of those in strict adherence to the many vile teachings of a psychopathic pedophile, hell-bent on world domination, is roughly 200 Million worldwide. Even though the United States has long been satisfied with it's claims and has not sought expansion or influence in any major capacity, "The Religion of Peace" is never satisfied and is always expanding, always looking for more.
Our ideals and our way of life are attractive because they speak to and highlight the individual. Personal responsibility and personal liberty go hand-in-hand to the benefit of all who espouse them. When there are people who have neither, but see the benefits of both? There will be indescribable yearning. This will either draw people here, or have them spreading our ideals abroad in an attempt to affect change. Due to this we will eventually clash with Islam because, per their Prophet and their Lord, this cannot be allowed.
The same people who claim "multiculturalism" is the way to go also accuse you of cultural appropriation is you participate in it. They say America is an evil culture then call you evil if you decide to practice Mexico culture.
Multiculturism in the end strives to eliminate all distinct cultures by mixing all cultures and races in belief that when there are no differences between people, there is no reason for war fueled by racism or "our culture is better than yours." ideas. Problem being, that at the moment this only takes place in the White Western World. The immigrants can always go back to their race, country and culture. Where do the white people go when their race, country and culture are wiped out?
This guy needs to read Jared Diamond’s Best Science award winning “Guns, Germs, and Steel.”
I was thinking this!!!!!!
According to GGS, what was the rationale that it was not Japan, China, India, Persia, Turkey, or the Maghreb that conquered the Americas, but that it was the Europeans that conquered the Americas? He actually admits (in an addendum added to the second edition) that it easily could have been any other civilization within the Eurasian band and that it was Europe was due to socio-political and cultural reasons.
GGS only explains why countries outside of the Eurasian band progressed more slowly.
Thank God for people like Dinesh who actually use their brains and reason.
Thank you for making clear the difference between multiculturalism and multi ethnicity. It makes complete sense.
And another thing, being part of a "superior" culture doesn't make you also superior
exactly
Unquestionably yes. Western culture is the leader in the sciences and human rights.
Questionably yes, the questions are then undoubtedly yes
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Great talk Dinesh! Gotta love you're thoughts!
I'm an Indian and I support him (not for he is an Indian) but for the fact he said at 2:50
AYYY THEY GOT TO A MILLION SUBS!!! YOU GO PRAGERU
Green Wave 2018
And if you have anime as your profile picture then you should stop using the internet
as far as I can tell from the outside, USA is being torn apart from the inside by people who dont value its cultural achievements from the past, and it's sad.
one of the many things history has shown us is that there most definitely are always better cultures, better mindsets, better schools of thought, etc., and it is a dynamic which never stops changing. There’s always one mire step to take, and that just seems obvious to me as someone who has studied human history extensively.
Greece has culture, the rest came later, thousands years later.
Better than isis
Ilsunny Lo what are you talking about! Isis is by far the best Egyptian god.
Anarchy Bull Nah, Kek is better.
Io kek is a lie! The memes of production will be seized!!
Thank you. Agree with everything you said.
Try being a Dalit in India. No such caste system exists in the West. In fact, you'd be criticised harshly for implementing and practising such system. It still exists today.
Sarah Porter
It exists just on paper.. and some remote hinterland.. People actually intermarry these days.
The current Prime Minister belongs to Backward caste. Current President of India is a Dalit.
The previous Prime Minister belonged to Scheduled caste.
From what I've read about India's caste system, it isn't adhered to so much in major cities and certain parts of the country, but in the more rural parts it still holds significant sway. It's definitely a subject that doesn't get discussed enough here in the West considering we tend to reject other rigid social hierarchies
Try being a dalit in india? We have our current prime minister who belong to a backward cast, we have more people from backward castes in politics than upward castes, dalits get free education, college, food etc., cause I belong to backward caste too. Are you really that dumb?
Sarah Porter well I thought Britain n Japan also has a caste system n Japan has a untouchable caste n India's pm, president n many more came from either lower caste or dalits but how many pm of Britain n Japan came from there lower or untouchable caste?
Feudalism was a cast system
You rock ! Thank you denesh!
Awesome work guys! Thanks!
Little correction, GB didn't rule india for 300 years. Complete control over india was established in 1858, but it is correct to say that GB did trade there for 300 years.
Pedro Badaró
Fact Nazi! We come here to hear subjective judgements that align with our patriotism. Take your facts and scram.
Harmony is not based on race or ethnicity, it is based on the willingness to assimilate into the culture most prevalent in the adopted society. Those who assimilate - WILLINGLY - are a benefit to the society, while those who insist on developing the crappy society which spawned them in a new land with its own set of norms & values causes the newcomer to be rejected. Love it or leave it, we don't need your idiotic despotism or religion.
Stan O'Malley yeah, Force conversion and force traditional practices seems a bit far-fetched and over the top
Not if your reward is being allowed to move from a public outhouse in a bad neighborhood to the parlor and dining hall in an exclusive part of town. Choices define us, in America we still have some we can make.
No they don't have to share the same cultures but the same values.... It's the same thing with a successful friendship
Columbus upon entering the new lands did exactly that.
NoOne NoOneAtAll Acceptable cultural differences including separate public swim hall, religious founded schools, women under social control: no free sex, alcohol, dress code, marriage & education?
Very tolerant approach to a dominant ideology like Islam..
Some cultures are better than others.
Absolutely spot on, Dinesh! Thank you!
PROTECT THE FIRST AND SECOND AMANDMENT AT ALL COST
The first... Hell yes... The second is everything or nothing: or all firearms are against the law(like the United Kingdom) but that will be a very expensive and a very long time investment, or none at all but you unfortunetly put some lifes at risk and risk illegal weapon to fall into the hands of horrible people.
Powerful message! Those of us who grew up in the U.S. Military community inherently understand this. Why are so many Americans afraid to read history? Thanks.
These short video "Lessons" are intellectual Gold! I learn something new with every one!
THANK YOU!
Dinesh D'Souza is the man...thank you for laying it out so very nicely.
Brilliant and totally on-point. THANK YOU for this. I hope this philosophy, however much it flies in the face of nonsensical political correctness, gains ground.
Ka-POP! !! Did you know that both Maruya India and ancient China banned slavery. What a uniquely Western idea
Did YOU know that ancient Africa engaged in slavery? Seriously, WTF is your point?
Modern Africa participates and engages in slavery.
All the African slaves brought to America were sold by Africans to the Colonials.
The point is that a large portion of the 'multi-cultural' movement predominately brings up and accuses modern Americans of guilt for long over and done with slavery in America.
And ignore or push aside the fact that slavery was NOT UNIQUE to Western culture unlike how the 'multi-cultural' movement likes to portray it.
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I think PragerU uses the term multi-culturalism in the way it is mostly used by post-modernists who believe in cultural-relativism. I was taught cultural relativism in university when studying ethnology, where they basically state that no culture is better or superior to another:
The most violent culture is just as good and makes just as much sense as the most peaceful culture, according to them. I even had to write a paper about this wonderful violent culture.
They do not see any inherent superiority in resolving conflicts by courts of law vs revenge culture where there is violent retribution by the victim's family.
I remember watching this guys documentary a few years back. I remember being so brainwashed I wouldn't even accept him telling me straight to my face that our culture is exceptional and worth fighting for. That has changed now. Thanks Mr. D'Souza.
Multiculturalism does not state that all cultures are equal. It is just a word that describes a society where one identity is shared by many ethnicities.
Freer cultures are *always* better
Morbidcrab A large part of freedom is law protecting individual rights. Anarchism is less free than Libertarianism.
Thanks for making this video that helps us to have a new perspective. You could read books of John Perkins to understand more about America's darkness ( Confessions Of An Economic Hitman) :)) I don't agree all opinions but It has some true aspect too.
Seeing my motherland's flag On PragerU videos gives me some sense of accomplishment :D. The Beautiful 40 rays of sunshine on top of Saudian flag🇰🇬
Dinesh really breaks it down for you to understand.
And the leftists get triggered in 3...2...1... 💥
You are showing wrong MAP of India.
How??
The map is from actual India and not from british raj
AWESOME VIDEO !! Thanks Prager U - and Thank you Dinesh !!
Well said. We need to remain strong together and stop criticizing ourselves for things that others do. I'm happy to be part of the western civilization, as I come from Poland, a country where this unreasonable self criticism is not prevalent.
Not all cultures are equal.
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Greetings from Korea. I couldn't agree more.
Thank you i say the truth im a Brasilian my brother migrated to the USA and i would soon follow him
At 4:31, Alaska isn’t highlighted as being part of the USA.
Dalton Stalvey its russian in heart and soul)
Good eye but that's Seward's folly ;)
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And they sold it pennies per acre...
There are many cultures, but there is only one civilization, the Western one.
No.
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No.
I love you Denish! Well said sir! Well said!
wat? He wants to repeal the civil rights act and was arrested for corruption
Dinesh But I agree He is awesome have loved everything he has done so far.
Dinesh But I agree He is awesome have loved everything he has done so far.
Jews are the ones who started multicultralism and the Jewish media is
the ones who constanly spew racist anti-White European rhetoric.
Salokin One can't be arrested for "corruption" in America.
Why when they showed america in red did they not show Alaska at 4:32
Hindu-Americans Rank Top in Education and Income. Hindu-Americans have the highest socioeconomic levels among all religions in the United States.
It's because most that come here are educated
One of the many problems of the Soviet Union was that it was to multi-cultural & it had to many different languages and language barriers. I think its probably a reoccurring theme of large empires and the "multiculturalism" ends up breaking them up.
William Merritt Rome was multi ethnic. Not multicultural. Sure they're were some variations of Roman culture mixed in with local traditions in non Italian provinces but other than that whether you were a Briton or Syrian living in the empire you considered yourself Roman and were considered Roman.
I agree with you.
Adam Dickinson So your saying a better state programs to remove cultures in the Soviet Union would unite them more? Sounds like a good plan to me. Let's make it a 5 year plan! Oh wait liberals destroyed what could of been the best nation in the world. My bad
Grantelbart I do! I say make these states have polices that are scientifically good for society and introduces this to a few generations and then boom. Unite all states and no multi culture problems
Short anwser: yes
Long answer: definetly, whithout any doubt yes, of course.
I am eastern european and I think, that the western and central europeans (+ Their colonies in The Americas of course) have the best culture.
Give it a couple years and the West will be far more eastern (Japanese and South Korean culture) just do to the massive influence that media is having over here
Everyone needs to watch this one, just like everything else at PragerU.
Every day I learn a new thing that brights my mind... thanks.
Um Cyrus the Great was the first historical figure to outlaw slavery so no. You are wrong. The abolition of slavery is not uniquely western.
I hate the whole "America is a country of immigrants" line always being thrown around. If you were born here then you are a citizen, an American citizen, not an immigrant. Your parents, grandparents might have been immigrants but thats where it stops.
Immigrant - a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country.
It would be better to say "We are the dependents of immigrants.
America IS a country made by immigrants. The europeans who sailed to this land were immigrants. Maybe thats a more accurate way of saying it.
Being born on some soil in no way constitutes one's nationality. Bithright and the blood and labours of one's ancestors is much more important than being born within defined territories of the United States.
For example, if some Muslims were to come over (I'm British, so this makes more sense over here) and have lots of children on UK soil, does that make the children as British as someone who's ancestors have lived in this land for more than 2000 years? No. _Especially_ if they educate them in Islamic schools and raise them in Islamic enclaves, insulating them from British society.
Birthright is much more important than your willingness to "integrate" into society. Of course, those with the birthright may choose to grant a small number of successful individuals from other lands access to their country, but the birthright-holders also also have the right to expel the newcomers if they are poorly behaved. i.e. deportation of non-native populations who are very criminal should be practiced (my criteria for "native" are that one's ancestors must have lived in the land for more than 150 years, although that can be extended back much further for countries like England where there haven't been any migrant waves who are now considered British since the 18th century).
No, America is a country primarily MADE by the DESCENDANTS of immigrants. Of the Founding Fathers, less than 1/4 were immigrants. There's no doubt that immigrants have contributed mightily to America, but far and away their greatest contribution has always been through their descendants.
See, that's the difference between Americans and Europeans. We extend "American-ness" to those who assimilate to our IDEALS and CULTURE. Euros, and those on the Continent are even deeper into this than the denizens of the British Isles, get hung up on ancestry. Sarah A. Hoyt, who is an immigrant from Portugal, can explain it to you far better than I.
Doctor D'Souza doing another outstanding work, congratulations!
Thank you for bringing one of the best presentations on the multiculturalism fallacy which erodes the culture of a given land, and the truth of multi-ethnicity. Of that I am a believer.