Our society is deeply sick, as evidenced by its self-loathing, fear that the gods must be angry (e.g., global warming,) and the strong tendency to see good as evil, and evil as good.
Western civilization has and had its flaws, and Europeans have not always treated other cultures as they would like other cultures to treat them. But few are those of whom the same cannot be said.
United we stand, divided we fall. United in our shared understanding of the principles of ethics, liberty and personal responsibility.
“Europeans have not always treated other cultures as they would like other cultures to treat them.”
Cultures are not morally equivalent. Non-western cultures are usually intellectually and morally inferior. Westerners should not, for example, treat Mohammedan culture as we would have it treat Western culture. Mohammedans need to follow our rules. But, we have no moral obligation to follow, respect, or refrain from eliminating (when convenient for us) such colorful Mohammedan cultural practices as “honor” killing, female circumcision, the murder of non-Mohammedans, etc.
On the intellectual side, would you like to buy a cellphone designed in Upper Volta? Oh...they don’t design much of anything in Upper Volta, let alone cellphones.
The Japanese, Koreans, and a few other countries have “cultures” worthy of respect, but most of the “cultures” in the 192 or so countries in the world should disappear for the good of their own people and the rest of the world.