2010.11.04 01:00 - Cultures and Assimilation

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    The Guardian for this meeting was Zen Arado. The comments are by Zen Arado. 

     

    Zen Arado: _/!\_
    Zen Arado: _/!\_
    Zen Arado: _/!\_
    Zen Arado: Hi Arch :)
    Archmage Atlantis: Hi, Zen :)
    --BELL--
    Archmage Atlantis: Did others come and leave already?
    Zen Arado: looks like someone left us some unwelcome presents
    Archmage Atlantis: I sYes
    Archmage Atlantis: Yes
    Zen Arado: I can't find a way to return them
    Archmage Atlantis: It needs to be reported to Linden Labs
    Archmage Atlantis: They will take care of it
    Zen Arado: how do you do that?
    Archmage Atlantis: Umm, I have to think back to when I still had a sim
    Zen Arado: if this land was mine I could do it probably
    Zen Arado: but don't have full permissions here
    Archmage Atlantis: Me either so I'm looking through the help
    Zen Arado: it's sad that some people are so racist
    Zen Arado: Just for the log - someone has left a few big cubes with Nazi slogans and pictures of Hitler against a swastika and others that say'nigger free sim' around. they also produce a loud siren and the sound of mschine guns
    Archmage Atlantis: Tks, the address you have is?
    Zen Arado: the creator and owner is someone called Kronic0071 Nexen - but it is just an alt, only 1 day old
    Archmage Atlantis: I found the method to report it, just waiting to see if it will allow me to do so
    Freud Jungsten: osiyo
    Zen Arado: Storm will be able to remove them anyway and his session is next
    Zen Arado: Hi Freud
    Freud Jungsten: What have I missed?
    Zen Arado: we have been targetted by racists looks like
    Freud Jungsten: Somehow I doubt it.
    Zen Arado: these cubes were here when I arrived
    Freud Jungsten: Looks like someone lamely trying to give that impression.
    Freud Jungsten: Reported it?
    Zen Arado: well, someone with racist tendencies
    Zen Arado: trying to work out how to do that
    --BELL--
    Freud Jungsten: Doing it now.
    Archmage Atlantis: ok, I sent an email to LL security
    Archmage Atlantis: They came quickly the last place that I was where something like this happened
    Archmage Atlantis: but the landowner called them
    Freud Jungsten: Saddly the recent tred in the US has been people claiming to be the victims of racial attacks... and it turns out they did it themselves...
    Zen Arado: yes - I feel so helpless because not the owner
    Freud Jungsten: When I get racial discrimination these days it is mostly subtle stuff.
    Zen Arado: oh - why do they do that Freud?
    Freud Jungsten: Tyring to prove a point or get attention or the like.
    Freud Jungsten: Pisses me off as it calls into question the legitimay of real descrimination concerns.
    Zen Arado: I had a guy here a few weeks ago who started talkng about how he thought there were too many immigrants to Britain and it was losing it;s Englishness
    Freud Jungsten: That is one perserpctive.
    Zen Arado: aquis aquitaine he called it
    Zen Arado: not sure what that means
    Freud Jungsten: No idea.
    Freud Jungsten: Sounds altinish.
    Freud Jungsten: latinish
    Freud Jungsten: But i don;t know much about Latin.
    Zen Arado: yes
    Zen Arado: can't find it on google either
    Archmage Atlantis: I sent a note to Pema and Storm also
    Freud Jungsten: A lot of folks from my part of the coutry feel the similarlry...... "america" as it is called was inhabited by Native peoples long before Columbus "discovered" it..... and all the pople that follwed him should go home.
    Archmage Atlantis: So it will get taken care of
    Zen Arado: ok Arch - I was gong to leave a message for Storm but his session is the next one anyway
    Zen Arado: yes - all countries have n
    Zen Arado: been populated by suvccessive waves of immigrants
    Zen Arado: probably even the native Americans came from somewhere else
    Freud Jungsten: True.
    Zen Arado: so there is no 'pure' race
    Freud Jungsten: But that was when the population of teh contined was measure in thousands not hundreds of millions.
    Archmage Atlantis: We are all descendent of immigrants........at some point in the past......And yes, bad things were done.......the important thing is to work toward a better present and future
    Zen Arado: yes - we all came from Eastern Africa originally didn't we?
    Freud Jungsten: True.... but that is way off from the origional point.
    Zen Arado: agree Arch - we work with what is - not how it should be I think
    Archmage Atlantis: The genetics show 3 distinct waves of immigrants that we recognize now as native americans
    Zen Arado: why does the size matter Freud?
    Freud Jungsten: lmbo..... taken out of context.. sorryr.
    --BELL--
    Archmage Atlantis: And here in Florida, the Seminoles accepted escaped slaves into their tribe, as they were mostly displaced Cherokee
    Archmage Atlantis: So they are a blend also
    Freud Jungsten: But the question is.... what is wrong wiht somone wanting to preseve their culture?
    Freud Jungsten: If the Freinch want to keep France French.... to me, that is a good thing.
    Archmage Atlantis: History should never be forgotten, and those who desire to preserve their way of life shoul have that option
    Zen Arado: that is the main problem I think Freud
    Zen Arado: assimilation of immigrants
    Archmage Atlantis: But themselves as individual.......children should be allowed to choose after adulthood
    Zen Arado: I think immigrants enliven a culture
    Archmage Atlantis: The Amish in Pennsylvania have done that best imo
    Zen Arado: add richness and variety
    Zen Arado: and genetic diversity
    Freud Jungsten: Or from that guys perspective.... they erode his culture.
    Zen Arado: but I like to see assimilation I guess
    Zen Arado: a kind of melting pot
    Archmage Atlantis: Ramspringen is a time in the late teens when those who chose to do so leave the culture to live amoung the "English" as they call modern American culture
    Zen Arado: not isolated ghettos
    Archmage Atlantis: They can choose to return or not
    Freud Jungsten: I just think that automatically saying that someone has issues becuase they want to keep their homeland for their kind is a bit off.
    Zen Arado: people naturally feel more secure amongst their own ethnic group when they go to a new country though
    Zen Arado: so why shouldn't they be allowed to form groups like that?
    Freud Jungsten: There are pople that want to get rid of rservations and tribal linds..... I will fight that.
    Zen Arado: but hopefully in time they will be assimilated
    Freud Jungsten: They are the only places where we can keep our ways going.
    Freud Jungsten: No!
    Freud Jungsten: I don't want to become some melted pot.... I am native and I want to keep those traditions and language and way of life intact.
    Archmage Atlantis: Agree with Freud on that
    Zen Arado: ok - assimilation is the problem then?
    Archmage Atlantis: It should be a choice
    Archmage Atlantis: By the individual
    Zen Arado: oh yes - a natural evolution
    Freud Jungsten: And if you chose not to, go somehwere else.
    Archmage Atlantis: Fear is the main weapon of those who choose evil
    Zen Arado: it is what causes a lot of the trouble where I live in N.Ireland
    Freud Jungsten: People will find an excuse to hate regardless of the situation.
    Freud Jungsten: You don't need race or culture for people to hate.
    Archmage Atlantis: Some people will, true Freud
    Zen Arado: and I prefer to think of myself as British rather than Irish
    Archmage Atlantis: Some won't
    Zen Arado: but a problem was created centuries ago by the British taking over land in Ireland
    Zen Arado: so territory is a big factor too
    Archmage Atlantis: Zen, have you claimed this log?
    Zen Arado: yes
    Archmage Atlantis: Good, it needs to be put in the record
    Freud Jungsten: Yes.... but claiming "they did it to us first" is moraly lame.
    Archmage Atlantis: My families came from England, Scotland, and Ireland........And the Romans and the Nordic peoples invaded those places thousands of years ago
    Zen Arado: was thinking of it in a more neutral way as a territorial claim that would inevitably cause friction
    Zen Arado: I can identify myself as either British or Irish
    Archmage Atlantis: What do you consider the "correct" answer to the problem you cite, Freud?
    Freud Jungsten: Yes.... it always has.... but I just thinki there is nothing wrong with wantting to preserve your culture.... even if you are white and British.
    --BELL--
    Freud Jungsten: I think the responsiblity lies with the migrant.
    Zen Arado: ok Freud - but if preserving your culture impinges on the rights of others it can cause trouble
    Archmage Atlantis: And, tracing my genetic markers back indicates my male ancestors came from Poland
    Zen Arado: it is a big problem in N.Ireland
    Freud Jungsten: So what you are saying is that the rights of migrants trump those of natives?
    Archmage Atlantis: No, just that a lot of injustice occured in the past
    Archmage Atlantis: And the past is the past
    Zen Arado: protestants here insist on marching every year to celebrate a battle fought over 3 hundred years ago and they march through Catholic reas
    Archmage Atlantis: We live in the now
    Zen Arado: it celebrates a battle where the protestants won a battle against a Catholic king
    Zen Arado: so I would prefer it if they didn't have to celebrate the past so much as Arch says
    Zen Arado: but this is a very intractable problem
    Freud Jungsten: Agreed... but is there a moreal difference in invading a place and forces your culture on them.... of mass migrating to a place and forcing your culture on the locals?
    Archmage Atlantis: I would prefer no one celebrate a battle....
    Zen Arado: or it is if you refuse to budge from a sectarian position
    Freud Jungsten: And on that note... I am going to tray nd get another hour of sleep or so.
    Freud Jungsten: Thanks for the chat folks.
    Archmage Atlantis: Me too
    Archmage Atlantis: :)
    Freud Jungsten: do na da go hv i
    Zen Arado: ok thanks for coming and enduring the background noise
    Archmage Atlantis: Guess my note to LL wasn't very effective
    Archmage Atlantis: Oh well
    Archmage Atlantis: Later Zen
    Archmage Atlantis: Take care
    Zen Arado: don't worry Arch - wish I could have done more
    Zen Arado: bye

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