Daily Reminder that France is Homophobic

[Spider]

I don't even buy into the prejudice angle, as historically they have tended towards having far less diverse populations, in terms of religion, culture, and race. As I say, I'm pretty sure they've worked hard to create this impression of social progression, and being on our side of the world a great many people seem to have bought it.

Social conservatives don't like gays on religious grounds, or out of simple stupidity. This is true anywhere else in the West as well. In the US we just have a larger fundamentalist base to overcome.

[Aaron]

Diversity of population means very little when you're state or country is so small that you could cross 3 of them by horse and buggy in 2 days. Utilitarian prejudice means that you think the people in the town next to you are dumpy and worthless because they make wagon wheels differently and therefore are of inferior intelligence.

The wagon wheel prejudice becomes part of your heritage, and it goes for 5 centuries.

Americans have no idea what it would be like to have a cultural background. You can't with 300 years total of existence. This also means that when gay marriage achieves the political clout to be installed, it's an event that tells you alot more about the country as a whole than when Maryland finally decided to give gays a tax break.

[WizardfromOz]

[The dane]

[Spider]

[Spider]

[Nico]

[Spider]

Its like you completely ignored my post.

And you and I obviously aren't on the same page anyhow when you make that claim that US culture "amounts to movies and music" after having just stated that the value of US culture "can't be underestimated." How could you possibly underestimate it more than that?!

Give it up, Nico.

[Nico]

[Spider]

Where in the hell do you think Americans came from? Some white bread planet full of blank printer paper and empty expressions? Any cultural identity of a nation of origin winds up transplanted to a nation of destination. As I said, "Considering the continuous evolution of culture throughout the globe, the starting date doesn't even matter. And the US, being a conglomeration of nearly every cultural tradition on Earth, has no particular advantage or disadvantage in this regard. Its not as though anyone walks through a cultural sterilization machine when they move here. They carry it forward and eventually it gets mixed into everything else."

Cultures are not monolithic. They are constantly evolving. Go back 3 centuries anywhere in the world and you find a different culture. Subsequent cultures are merely echos of what came before, and a lot of the time not even that.

You made an intentionally offensive post, and failed to cleverly tie a balloon to it.