Culture Clash

Throughout history we’ve seen culture clashes between nations and religions. The newest clash is between China and the US.  The US based its laws and culture on the 10 Commandments and the Chinese didn’t. The US requirement based on “thou shalt not steal” is puzzling to the Chinese. Many Asians have based their religions on “honor thy father and thy mother”. So there are some similarities, but Western cultures and their governments have gotten away from honoring families and parents.

Other nations have clashed with the US over the same issue. Most American Indian Nations stole horses and anything else they could get their hands on and it drove US settlers crazy and they decided to decimate the Indian Nations labeling them as “savages”. American Indians did attack settlers and kill and kidnap them and think nothing of it.  Most American Indians died from small pox, because they had no immunity to this disease. The Spanish explorers noticed few “Indians” as they moved through South America to California. The American Indian Nations fought each other, but did well in discovering medicines from plants and trees and moved around to hunt, but had no idea how to acclimate to Western European property laws, property ownership and currency. It was relatively easy to decimate the remaining tribes and force them on to “Indian Reservations”.  The Cherokee tribe in the Southeast did assimilate, but we sent them to reservations anyhow. Once a group gets a bad reputation, it’s easy to wipe them out.

The US and European cultures used to be compatible, but Europeans’ insistence on the global warming myth, socialized medicine, government pensions, open borders, the EU and total obedience to the UN is a new virus for Europe. We are reengaging European countries to conduct bi-lateral trade with the US. This may result in the happy return of Europeans to their former anti-socialist, capitalist ways. The US should push them until they crack. The world already has too many poor countries and needs freedom and capitalism to advance.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader