Western Culture Is Morally Superior

Thank you for your argument: Western Judeo-Christian Culture"s foundation is laid on a credo. This foundation may be diluted, But never fully washed away. When it is washed away, It can never again be confused with the culture called "Western Culture. " The foundation is this: God set up laws on Earth, And all mankind has broken them. God"s son payed the painful price to offer peace to those who will serve him by glorifying him as God and taking on a similar quest to show this love to others, Until his perfect kingdom comes. It is this foundational grace and proliferation of mercy that makes Western Culture so unique. There is evidence in the west to show that this culture is alive and well. How else will you explain the obsession with lights and gifts and the harshness of winter and the endless displays of the manger scene and all of the Christmas songs? Western Culture celebrates a hope bigger than this world. I do not claim that Western Culture is "best forever, " but merely the best in the world over all of the cultures that we have to choose from at this time. I know that to some there is no difference, But to me, It is a wide gap. From Western Culture we get all sorts of unique things. We get the idea of falling in love, Out of western culture has come socialism and feminism, We have declared ourselves guilty of hating blacks and enslaving them, And we have ended that, And made all in our country do so. We send out billions of dollars in aid to all sorts of countries in the world, Countries filled with people who both love us and hate us. We don"t have bribes in this country, Which is weird, Since most countries do. And why do all these people want to migrate over to our countries? Why is Europe flooded with immigrants? There are reasons why few Americans want to move anywhere else, Why no one wants to live in the Middle East, And few will move to china. Why is America looking at our southern border so hard? Why do we care about genocide in other countries? Western culture values individuals and their prosperity and their right to choose their own destiny. For all of the rap it gets, Western Culture is surprisingly humble: we know that we are wrong most of the time. We know our system is bad. We know, But it could be worse, And our system is the best that we can imagine at the moment. With freedom of speech and God endowed freedoms of life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness at the fore we are the most humble and hopeful of all of the noble wretches. Not knowing or claiming to know what makes for the happiness of the individual, We face our greed and forgive and love. I once asked a friend what a great nation would look like. The answer: A good nation would not have homeless people on the street. It would take care of its orphans and the elderly. Everyone who could work could find jobs and earn enough to live decently. The sick and disabled would be taken care of, And no one would have debt. In order for all of this to happen, A nation would have to collectively decide to care for the burdens of people who are easily taken advantage of. This requires that the nation adhere to a system of extreme moral obligation to do good. Where else in the world do we see a nation, Untouched by western values and culture that values individuals, Those who are poor, Women, Animals? Do we practice Sati here? Do we have arranged marriages in western culture, Or do we favor love? Do we condone favoring boys over girls, Or girls over boys? Do we practice female genital mutilation? Do we curse our neighbors? Or do we generally hate all of these and beg those that do them to decide to choose a better way? There are some weird ideas in the Hindu culture as well. Most places have this, The idea of caste that you were born into. These are decidedly not inherent to the western culture. I appreciate the thought of a melting pot, And certainly, When other parties bring good ideas that are compatible with our culture into our culture, It is sometimes actually best to assimilate them. Let me say though, That a culture is made up of the generalizations and belief systems and habits underlying a specific group of people. These are, As you said, Generalizations. If you want to look at cultural melting pots, However, A good example of one would be missionaries. Cultural melting pots self-destruct or create completely new cultures. Missionary kids from the US to another culture are halfway between two cultures, And they can never return completely to one or the other. They are outsiders of both and actually have their own culture. Therefore going between the two is actually quite shocking, And they get culture shock both ways, Because the two cultures see the world differently from each other. America "works" right now, Because we are founded on the same basic belief system. There are fractures starting to show now, Where the solid foundation of western civilization is being undermined, Here with Islamic doctrine and sharia law, There with postmodernism, And still other places with other ideas and doctrines brought largely by immigrants from other countries and by the massive cultural exchange afforded us by the internet. Still, I believe that Western Culture is superior to all of these other options. There is no other culture which honors the individual more, And simultaneously is aware of humanity"s evil tendencies and guards against those. There is no other culture which has a greater hope for life and meaning. If there is, Please name it. Thank you for your time. I look forward to your response.