[jordan8]

South Pacific was an early and fairly subdued shot from Hollywood in the multicultural war against the West . The sentiments it pushed and the people who pushed them are at least as reponsible for London and New York as anything taught in a Madrassa. Note the quote from Jean-Francois Revel in the link above.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

The problem with the lyrics is that they are just not true. I think people have a natural tendency to dislike and even hate groups of people who are noticeably different, especially when they have had bad experiences with members of those groups.

I think it is much more accurate to say that children need to be taught not to hate. Anybody who has ever watched a playground full of children will quickly spot the outcasts and scapegoats. Nobody had to teach those children to turn on those who didn't fit in.

12 posted on 07/24/2005 6:59:01 PM EDT by Restorer

South Pacific was an early and fairly subdued shot from Hollywood in the multicultural war against the West . The sentiments it pushed and the people who pushed them are at least as reponsible for London and New York as anything taught in a Madrassa.

Add in the perspective shift which Christianity has undergone in the past two centuries . . . Thomas Sowell points out that before the American Revolution there is no history of anyone opposing slavery as an institution, on principle. Christians had slaves, for example, long before Africans were sold into slavery in the South.

It was only after the American Revolution that there was any moral taint to slavery; there was no literature attempting to defend slavery before the runup to the Civil War because the institution had not previously been under attack as unchristian. But Christendom changed (coalescing into nation states too powerful to mess with for profit by slavers) and then Christianity changed. And because Christianity changed, it became hostile to the institution of slavery - with the result that the British Navy was tasked with keeping a squadron of warships off the west coast of Africa to suppress the slave trade. And of course we had the Civil War here.

But slavery was prevalent worldwide, until European (Chrisitan) colonialism in general (and the British Empire in particular) delegitimated it. So, essentially, multiculturalism is the "better" which is the enemy of Christianity, which is merely (in that sense) "good enough."