If you're talking about discussions relating to lgbt stuff, it's because the western world is a lot more into "woke" culture, inclusivity, and whatnot, compared to other cultures from around the world.Cerno wrote:
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why's it always the americans
If you're talking about Americans being argumentative, it's because we usually a lot more opinionated and have a bigger hubris than people from other cultures. Having such a free-thinking culture, freedom of speech, and the, generally speaking, good quality of life that Americans have has given us the ability and opportunity to focus our thinking in a more ideological and philosophical way, especially with adolescents who have a ton of free time.
Now, this isn't necessarily a bad thing. Most of the time it leads towards innovation and progress in society. But it can become a bad thing when, generally speaking, young people who haven't fully conceptualized their thoughts and opinions try and spread their ideologies without putting enough thought or effort into it. (This also applies to anyone, not just young people, but young people are more prone to this) It truly takes time to understand the world that you are living in and if you think that you know enough about it to spread your grand scale ideologies at such a young age, you should probably think twice. Having opinions is one thing, but if you're trying to change the world before you even know what the world is, barely giving yourself the chance to develop as a human being, then you should probably focus on developing yourself rather than spreading your potentially flawed philosophies and flawed ideologies.
A lot of parts of our culture in America are moving towards group identity and tribalism, which detracts from the fact that we are free-thinking sovereign individuals. There's a big movement in the American youth these days to label, group, and classify themselves and others, rather than seeing themselves and others as sovereign individuals. It becomes especially dangerous when a said person who "self-identifies" as a part of these groups cannot distinguish the difference between their individuality and their group identity. If someone slanders or insults your "group", then you are going to be more inclined to take it personally and act out, reciprocating the behavior towards anyone who opposes you. This creates an extremely polarized "Us vs. Them" environment in society. It's an extremely Tribalistic way of thinking. I understand that it's an inescapable fact of society that people will be part of groups and whatnot, and I believe that it's a good thing to find some sort of belonging and group identity, but a lot of people don't understand how to find the balance between individualism and group identity.
I've done a lot of studying about genocides and the people who partake in such things. I understand that this sounds like an extreme comparison, but you can really learn a lot from these horrific acts and how to prevent things like this from happening. Keep in mind, me using this comparison does not literally mean that I think a genocide will occur in America, nor does it mean that we are necessarily headed towards one at the moment. I'm simply showing you how the culture in America and around the world can resemble the stages of a genocide, and how dangerous mentalities like this can be.
There are 8 stages in a genocide. The main ones I'd like to take a look at are 1 2 3 4 and 5, respectively being Classification, Symbolization, Dehumanization, Organization and Polarization. Now, if you look at America in the current day, you can see quite a few instances of all five of these things. Some of it is inflicted by people who oppose said groups, most of the time being the Dehumanization and Polarization aspect. On the other hand, some of it is self-inflicted. By "self-inflicted", I'm talking about the people who are trending towards labeling, classifying and grouping themselves and others. This can be extremely dangerous to one's self and others involved. It opens the opportunity for the next steps to take place after classification. It allows people to form hatred towards your "group" of people, allows them to dehumanize you, propogandize against you and spread polarization. It is part of what creates such polarzied Us vs. Them environments in society today.
