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I think it’s a sort of dose-makes-the-poison thing for me. Being biased towards your own group, whatever that group might be is actually not only normal but healthy in normalish amounts. There’s nothing particularly wrong with preferring your own tribe or your own culture above others. In fact I think there’s something pathological about antipathy towards your own tribe, your own religion or culture.
I guess my gestalt image here would be either the Otaku or the Wigger— a white person with so much interest in another culture that it becomes a joke or a meme. They rejected everything white in favor of being something else. They spend time and energy and lots of effort to become a superficial version of a member of that culture without really understanding that those cultures will never truly accept you as one of them. At best they see it as cute, at worst they see it as a derogatory LARP.
The same could be said of the anti-racist penchant for declaring things to be the result of white supremacy and making huge grandiose public statements in apology and self-degradation. It’s not really as impressive as it’s made out to be, at best it’s cute, and at worst it comes off as a cringy LARP.
On the other hand being discriminatory in your behavior, or actually getting in the way of others getting a fair chance at living a decent life, that’s too far. Like Europe and North America are Christian civilizations there’s nothing wrong with promoting that heritage through art or music or literature or whatever else you want to use. Italy is Italian and I see little wrong with Italians embracing everything it means to be Italian. To me I find that to be much more respectable— even if I practiced a different religion or came from another culture, finding that the natives are not afraid to practice their religion or culture in public, that they actually like their people, country, and so on. Self-respect is something that other people will respond to with respect.
It is sad in some ways, but also admirable in others. It's what cultural diffusion looks like. One culture can definitely be better adapted to an environment than another. It's like the old saw about who would win a fight: a lion, or a shark?
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