Again, I live in southern Spain. Spain has a reputation of musical expressionism derived from its Gypsy citizenry (flamenco). It’s appreciated here and people from around the world visit here because of it (New Orleans jazz and blues). Many Spaniards in the North resent that “label” and many like it. Many Gypsy families in the south are successful (I married into such a family) due to European values and they may or may not value flamenco (just as many successfull blacks don’t value rhythm). The main point was to say that a successful culture values “part” of one culture but non-successfull cultures don’t seem to accept any of the values of successful cultures.
Not only don’t they accept the values of the successful culture in this instance, many (probably not the “elite”) are actively trying to destroy the values which made American Judeo-Christian-based culture successful. It’s called the “crabs in a barrel” mentality.
music is not a value......