I see the issue being the mistake in thinking you have ANY rights , what in fact you have is a contract with your community(culture).
The community grants you certian benifits for conforming to the community( cultures) rule set , you fit in and WE ( ie the big we)allow you to make the following personal choices ..with the understanding that WE may have to change the rules if the need arises.
All our/your so called "rights" are given to you , and you dont even get to pick which ones you get, and all can be removed by the will of the community/culture/nationstates .
yes openness/ accountablity / free press / elections help defend you benifits but when it feels the need the comunity acts as it see fit. Look at the current anti terrorist laws springing up in the western faction nations .
Now given that these "rights" are a pure fiction of your/our culture .. the use of such rights to attack cultural diversity is merely the continuation of culture aggression and imperialisum that makes up human history .
All cultures , by their nature seek to defend themselves by supplanting any other culture they come in contact with.
All cultures belive themselves to be the correct one , and the better one .. as a matter of faith .
so it follows all people of differenning cultures would be better off if they belonged to "our" culture ..and so history and human nature marches onward ...
Cultral missionarys are as harmfull as religious ones have ben shown to have been in the past .
As humans this is what we do , we try to make everyone the same as us ( well just a step or two lower ), then they will no longer be a threat .
conversely cultral diversity is a root cause of most of the worlds conflicts and the sooner we all share a single culture the better, this is not to say this would end all conflict , but it would remove a major excusse for disputes to start .
The real question is how we can learn to think outside of our own culture/s and all the baggage it/they brings , and see a culture all can live with and in.
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