Posted on 11/22/2025 7:01:19 AM PST by Starman417
I don’t remember the first time I heard the phrase “ethnocentric”, but I remember the context. I was in some history class and we were studying a primitive South American tribe. They lived essentially the exact same way their ancestors had thousands of years ago. Our teacher told us their civilization was equal to ours, and we should never think that any civilization was superior to any other. Doing so would be “ethnocentric”, which apparently was a belief that our society was superior to others.
The truth is, when we were first admonished about this I remember thinking something wasn’t quite right about it, but as a kid in school, who was I to argue with the teacher? It was only years later that I would realize that teachers weren’t all knowing and that that little piece of wisdom was anything but.
Of course almost no one uses the phrase ethnocentric anymore. No, it’s been replaced by the ubiquitous and multifunctional moniker “racist”. Different word, but it means basically the same thing, everything white or western is bad and anything else, whether color or culture, is good.
Whatever the name, the lesson was: Every society is equal.
But is that true? No. While common sense suggests it’s wrong, how does one really know? Who decides? Well, if we left it to academia and western elites to decide, we’d all be wearing dashikis, praying towards Mecca five times a day, eating out of a communal plate with our hands and then wiping our posteriors with those same hands. Not that the elites themselves would be doing any of that, but they coerce the unwashed masses into following such diverse practices.
As for deciding, the majority have already decided. Are there millions of people risking their lives every year to illegally migrate to Africa or South America or South Asia? No. Where do the millions of people seeking to flee conflicts in Syria or Libya or anywhere else in the Muslim world go? Do they go to any one of the 50 plus Muslim majority nations? Other than passing through Turkey on their way to Greece, the answer is largely no. Where do those seeking to escape economic malaise throughout much of the southern hemisphere go? Mexico City or Timbuktu? Unlikely. Where do CCP or Hamas or banana republic leaders send their kids to be educated and live? Saudi Arabia or Venezuela or Burkina Faso or Vietnam? No, they send their kids to Paris, London and New York.
But the history! For example, India has a history going back thousands of years. We’re told that British rule decimated the Indian GDP, taking it from 23% of the world’s GDP in the mid-18th century to less than 4% today. That’s obviously a story of western civilization destroying a superior civilization, right? Not so much. While the Brits did bring substantial and sometimes negative changes to the Indian subcontinent, the reality is, India’s share of GDP shrank largely because western advances grew world GDP at an extraordinary rate never before seen. To put that in perspective, between 1750 – about the time Britain took control over India – and 1990 the GDP of the entire 3rd world grew by about 15 times. During that same period, Britain and the developed world grew GDP by 123 times. India didn’t lose it’s economic powerhouse status because Britain destroyed its economy, it lost its status because the west became an economic juggernaut, powered by the advances of the Industrial Revolution building on those of the Scientific Revolution and the Age of Enlightenment, all of which were western.
So, why is it that for half a century elites have been telling us that westerners are not allowed to take pride in the advances of their civilizations or celebrate the forces that brought about unprecedented freedom and prosperity?
Because they are spoiled, entitled brats who are ashamed of the prosperity their forebearers created. P.J. O'Rourke perhaps put it best. “At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child — miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats.”
Like the children of so many successful entrepreneurs, those boomer elites (the fount of today’s liberalism) found it hard to live up to the achievements of their progenitors. In the century before 1970 western civilization literally revolutionized the world. Automobiles. Telephony. Radio. Television. Movies. The structure of DNA. Flight. Heart transplants. Microchips. Nuclear power. The electric light bulb. And much more. They even put a man on the moon and brought him back safely! Since then? Not so much a revolution as changing the curtains. Sure, the PC, the Internet the iPhone, Netflix, Amazon and Facebook have impacted our lives, but nothing revolutionary on the scale of many of those from the previous century. No time travel. No teleportation. No cure for cancer. Not even roads without potholes!
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Quit trying to turn this into an anti-America thread.
You appear spiritually bereft, cnm.
The U.S. medical establishment, and that of other western countries, were and appear to remain on a jihad against the notion of any unborn child being allowed to continue living and be born who even merely statistically could have Downs Syndrome.
This, combined with the horrific wave of fetal abortions it has spawned, is clearly an atrocity.
YMMV, but as far as This Guy is concerned, nobody should loosely single out Downs Syndrome as an indicator of unworthiness.
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Good topic. Thanks for posting.
You are entitled to your own opinion. There is a lot that’s wrong right and unless conservatives can admit it. The Trump era will be dismantled by 2026.
The author fails to take into consideration the overwhelming cultural and civilizational importance of the Palestinian invention of the cell phone bomb.
Who are you going to believe? The “experts” or your lying eyes?
Don’t think they aren’t coming at us from the rear with the Indigenous cultures, and how they were as advanced in knowledge as western civilization. PBS is absolutely chock-full of that stuff, in heavy rotation.
Zackly.
Everything that is currently homegrown is heavily influenced by the imported cultures of the last several decades.
Are you a 1960s college professor?
You are a PERFECT example of the people who sold this “All Cultures are Equal” “America/Western Civilization is No better” message.
And, like any other debate with the commie trash if you object or even question you are condemned. After a while, you/we just give up talking — which was the goal all along.
Excellent reply.
- US is still reeling from opioid epidemic
- So mental health…
- Life expectancy
- Marriages that last vs. end in divorce
- Violence"
Those things largely arise from an abandonment of traditional western Judeo-Christian values, not an adherence to them.
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