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To: epicure who wrote (27483)	2/2/2004 1:01:30 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) of 793670

Instinctively people like to attack that which they do not understand, especially if they are uneducated, but I'd hardly hold xenophobia up as a positive thing. There are degrees of ethnocentricity. It is natural to like your own way of doing things just because they are yours - after all, if you didn't like them, you'd do them some other way, wouldn't you? And so we do. What is strange is not teaching tolerance, which is a good thing, but this peculiar corollary of a massive fake respect for the Other, and the more alien it is, the more we must pretend that it is Good and we are Not So Good. (The corollary of this that I really detest is the conclusion that values like human rights are something that only we should observe, but the Other must be allowed its own barbarous ways; who are we to judge?) I call the respect of multiculturalism 'fake' because it is dropped as soon as push comes to shove. As soon as we move from general Arab attitudes towards women, to a an actual woman you know threatened with an honor killing, suddenly the respect for the Other is off and the police are called in.

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