Re: Amerindian resistance mode (was: amerindian an offensive
Matt Silberstein (matts2@ix.netcom.com)
Fri, 09 Aug 1996 07:04:54 GMT
Stephen Barnard <steve@megafauna.com> wrote:
>Matt Silberstein wrote:
>>
>> Unfortunately acceptance is, in the long run, more dangerous to the
>> Indigenous Peoples culture than fighting. Acceptance and assimilation
>> of Jews and Jewish culture in the U.S. has had a dramatically
>> devastating affect.
>You have a lot of nerve to write this. There are more Jews in the US
>than in any other country, including Israel. Antisemitic sentiment is
>rampant throughout the world, including the US, but the Jews have found
>a refuge in the US like nowhere else, outside Israel (which the US
>supports wholeheartedly, much to its peril, and rightly so). Jews have
>access to the highest economic and social positions in the US. True, a
>Jew isn't likely to be elected President, but neither is an atheist like
>me. Would you prefer that there were no "acceptance and assimilation of
>Jews and Jewish culture in the U.S."?
Could you explain what you mean that I "have a lot of nerve" to write
that. You seemed to think that I am saying this is an anti-semitic
country. I am not. I am saying that acceptance can be distructive to
culture. Yes, the U.S. has a large Jewish population. There is also a
very high % of mixed marriages. I would prefer acceptance but not
assimilation. I value cultural diversity, but it is difficult to
maintain cultural identity against a dominant culture. One of the
things that kept Jewish culture alive for the last 2000 years was the
lack of acceptance by the general population.
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