Do you hate self-haters?
I don't care if they hate themselves, but if they hate their own culture or country I really despise them.
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SW-User
I'm not assuming anything. I am perfectly aware of the perceptionof the countries you mentioned. Perhaps you should not assume the people you converse with speak for everyone. Again I didn't mention culture. @Northwest:
Northwest · M
@Lemony:
[quote]I'm not assuming anything.[/quote]
Not really.
[quote]Perhaps if you talked to some people from Syria it would make more sense.[/quote]
Country or culture, it's the same thing. While they're interested in survival, at this point, no they don't hate their country.
[quote]I'm not assuming anything.[/quote]
Not really.
[quote]Perhaps if you talked to some people from Syria it would make more sense.[/quote]
Country or culture, it's the same thing. While they're interested in survival, at this point, no they don't hate their country.
SW-User
Ok. @Northwest:
SW-User
Hating your country does seem pretty unproductive and pointless. THat said, sometimes loving your country means being critical of it when it is failing to meet it's potential as a society. This is often unfairly labelled hatred by people who don't agree with the criticisms being voiced. It's important to be careful when assessing protests since it's easy to fall into the trap of being dismissive.
SW-User
@kingkyrie: I think people should treat any and all sources of information as inherently biased to some degree, because they all are since they are all administered by human beings. Part of critical thinking is to not allow your disbelief of one source cause you to invest an opposing source with too much credibility. That's a long winded way of saying I agree with not blindly following propaganda. 👍
novembermoon · 51-55
This makes me wonder about people who migrate out of their country, and become citizens in another, probably one in which they become a minority. Sometimes people move because of an oppressive political regime. In such a case, the country is more the regime than the culture. No matter how developed or successful the country becomes later on, the person may feel no affection for the country because he feels too many personal freedoms had been sacrificed in the making. We see this in many first generation Chinese who migrated to the west.
I despise more the ones who hate their culture. That is something I cannot understand. I do not take kindly to people not knowing their native language and customs. Such ones are like seeds blown by the wind, having wings but no roots. I do not like people who adapt too easily. They scare me. A Chinese person who does not speak a word of Chinese and loves all things western is to me like a banana- yellow on the outside and white on the inside. No, I don't like bananas at all.
I despise more the ones who hate their culture. That is something I cannot understand. I do not take kindly to people not knowing their native language and customs. Such ones are like seeds blown by the wind, having wings but no roots. I do not like people who adapt too easily. They scare me. A Chinese person who does not speak a word of Chinese and loves all things western is to me like a banana- yellow on the outside and white on the inside. No, I don't like bananas at all.
Sssslm · F
@novembermoon: i read 1984 in 2nd school. there was one incident about the big brother eradicating words to control people's mind. there was a guy who thought this move was genious, because when they no longer had the word freedom, they wouldn't know the concept of freedom. this guy was eradicated later as well because he was too clever to think about the word 'concept'. the big brother in our big neighboring country has been unifying different parts of its own by means of language, everyone there has to use mandarin. they are pushing us to do that too by forcing schools to use mandarin to teach chinese. we are worrying that our own language cantonese would be gone, and lots of ideas, concepts, thinking in our culture would be gone too if we no longer have the words to talk about them. for this reason i hate mandarin, and simplified chinese, they are conquering our culture. sorry i know u are using them there, i know it s irrelevant to your country.
novembermoon · 51-55
I attended a conference there in HK a few years ago. One of the profs there looked at the group of us from Singapore with disdain when we spoke about language in our curriculum. I understand why. I always feel that we have given up too much of our identity and our roots in the name of 'progress' . I felt sad that day. I respect very much that Cantonese is still used there in HK. It is what binds the people and gives them an identity.
SW-User
Only Germany, Greece and the eastern ones.
But mainly Germany.
But mainly Germany.
Cierzo · M
@GermanAf: And UK, France, Spain, Italy...
SW-User
UK just has to deal with the Brexit.
But I'm talking about an internal conflict here.
But I'm talking about an internal conflict here.
Northwest · M
There are pretenders out there, who like to show that being cultured, means hating your own culture, and proving that other cultures are more superior.
This is also true, for people who think that their culture, is superior to other cultures.
There are cases, when one's culture needs to evolve, and it's OK to say that. There's no shame in that.
This is also true, for people who think that their culture, is superior to other cultures.
There are cases, when one's culture needs to evolve, and it's OK to say that. There's no shame in that.
SW-User
Depends on the term hate,example I don't hate myself, my life, culture or country,but I do hate the way each of them has gone the wrong direction and where it has ended up. Not hating each as the label themselves. It's like a girl hating all men because of one bad relationship with a male.
Cierzo · M
Understand. Not what I call self hate. For me self-hate is hating yourself and the groups you belong to precisely for that reason.
SW-User
What if someone has like a love hate relationship with oneself? Like they are in love with their best side but just can't seem to accept ones own flaws? Catch 22 thought @Cierzo:
Sssslm · F
not all cultures are good, for examples in some places women are considered subordinate to men. they do not have equal rights as men do and could be raped freely.
i hate those who come from problematic countries and think they have no problems and bring their problematic norms to other countries.
i hate those who come from problematic countries and think they have no problems and bring their problematic norms to other countries.
Cierzo · M
A country is more than some tradition of the government
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SW-User
Don't you write all the time about how much you hate the people in your country?
Alabamiangods · 41-45, F
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