I'm good with accepting at some point nationalism, patriotism and cultural homogeneity are all necessary and positive with respect to the ongoing safety, stability and success of a nation. It is just way too easy to note that heart and mind of immigrants today remain stuck in their home country culture, and their lack of love for their new home collectively degrades ongoing safety, stability and success of a nation.
To claim that this gets us to genocide is intellectually bankrupt and disgusting.
Perhaps Aristotle was onto something when he emphasized the importance of one’s culture “the polis” over individualism or one’s tribal “family” relationships.
This article is a good example of what Roger Scruton called oikophobia:
''oikos'' - from the Greek meaning a “house,” “family,” “people,” or “nation”
– Encyclopaedia Britannica
and
''-phobia'' - extreme or irrational fear or dislike of a specified thing or group - Webster's Dictionary
An extreme and immoderate aversion to the sacred and the thwarting of the connection of the sacred to the culture of the West appears to be the underlying motif of oikophobia; and not the substitution of the culture by another coherent system of belief. The paradox of the oikophobe seems to be that any opposition directed at the theological and cultural tradition of the West is to be encouraged even if it is "significantly more parochial, exclusivist, patriarchal, and ethnocentric". (Mark Dooley, Roger Scruton: Philosopher on Dover Beach (Continuum 2009), p. 78.)
The only way out is to move from a rights-based culture to one more inclined to accept privilege, obligation, honor and divine order.
I'm good with accepting at some point nationalism, patriotism and cultural homogeneity are all necessary and positive with respect to the ongoing safety, stability and success of a nation. It is just way too easy to note that heart and mind of immigrants today remain stuck in their home country culture, and their lack of love for their new home collectively degrades ongoing safety, stability and success of a nation.
To claim that this gets us to genocide is intellectually bankrupt and disgusting.
Perhaps Aristotle was onto something when he emphasized the importance of one’s culture “the polis” over individualism or one’s tribal “family” relationships.
This article is a good example of what Roger Scruton called oikophobia:
''oikos'' - from the Greek meaning a “house,” “family,” “people,” or “nation”
– Encyclopaedia Britannica
and
''-phobia'' - extreme or irrational fear or dislike of a specified thing or group - Webster's Dictionary
An extreme and immoderate aversion to the sacred and the thwarting of the connection of the sacred to the culture of the West appears to be the underlying motif of oikophobia; and not the substitution of the culture by another coherent system of belief. The paradox of the oikophobe seems to be that any opposition directed at the theological and cultural tradition of the West is to be encouraged even if it is "significantly more parochial, exclusivist, patriarchal, and ethnocentric". (Mark Dooley, Roger Scruton: Philosopher on Dover Beach (Continuum 2009), p. 78.)
The only way out is to move from a rights-based culture to one more inclined to accept privilege, obligation, honor and divine order.