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> >>like "Blacks can love whites..." >> This has NOTHING to >>do with the compatibility of >>Western and non-Western worldviews. > >so blacks=nonwestern and whites=nonwestern? man, that >is shortsighted and not very >well thought out. even contradicting >your earlier self.
I assume u meant to say blacks = non-western and whites = western.
Just to save time: Solarus never said this. "Western" is a culture, not a race. Africans raised in "the West" (America, Europe) are for the most part Western, for example. "Whites" are for all intents and purposes all Western (I personally dont know of any whites who weren't raised into Western culture), although if we were raised under the right circumstances we wouldn't be. I'll be the first to admit that I'm Western, although I am trying to purge many and even most western ideas from my brain.
however, i do not agree with Solarus' total and stark separation of Western and non-Western cultures, Especially with regard to love. ALthough I think that many aspects of Western culture greatly undermine love (particularly individualism and the separation of reason and emotion), i have personally seen "true love" flourish between Westerners (my parents!). i have personally seen two "Western" people become one. Also, we mustn't forget that in many non-Western cultures (and still in many Western cultures as well), such as in many parts of India, for example, marriage and love are forced upon people, particularly women, who have little or no power over whom they are betrothed to. How does this fit into this alleged drastic dichotomy between western and non-western conceptions of love?
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