Culture clash sours American dream (Liberal Academia Barfer via aljazeera)

Aljazeera.net ^ | Sunday 04 April 2004 | Aljazeera,net

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"Touching or kissing a kid may be something natural in Latin America. Here in the States, it can be seen as sexual abuse," said Alison Renteln, author of The Cultural Defence.

Her book recounts hundred of stories of immigrants who violated US laws by practicing their own customs.

"For many immigrants, living in America is a cultural balancing act," the associate professor of political science at the University of Southern California told AFP.

"Touching or kissing a kid may be something natural in Latin America. Here in the States it can be seen as sexual abuse"

Alison Renteln,
author 

"They struggle to preserve their native customs while conforming to laws of this country."

"The owner of the Chinese live-animal food shop doesn't get it. Why was she cited for selling live chickens when the Italian restaurant across the street boils dozens of live lobsters every day?"....

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Liberal academia gives the Arab world more reasons to hate Americans.

No mention in the article of the hundreds of dead Chinese from bird borne viri and yet no American's dead of any "lobster borne" virus.

The gist of the article is that because we don't let embrace latin americans fondling kids or let yemenese imigrants grow there own meth, the US is a pretty crappy place to live.

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"The owner of the Chinese live-animal food shop doesn't get it. Why was she cited for selling live chickens when the Italian restaurant across the street boils dozens of live lobsters every day?"....

LOL!

[Viking2002]

Allow me to shine a light on this from a different perspective: there very well may be instances (and perhaps fellow Freepers could enlighten me with firsthand knowledge) of incidents where cultural traditions were quelled because of political correctness - where any given cultural norm is quelled by the very same forces that liberal academia champions. Any interesting stories out there, folks?