Comments by "Daniel B West" (@danielbwest) on "Lauren Southern: The Internet Breeds Dangerous Ideologies" video.

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  12.  @ddz1375  Oh, I totally understand and sympathise with the right on this point. Assimilation is a key component of cultural and societal cohesion, and there are many historical examples where this has gone wrong because of too much mass immigration of people who can't assimilate fast enough. So don't take it that I don't understand how right wingers feel on this issue. I do My contention here is that Europeans and North Americans, particularly those on the right, don't have a good understanding of other cultures around the world and what they're consist of. They are completely ignorant about the type of people from those cultures who emigrate to the West and therefore don't have a good understanding of their ability to assimilate or not. They therefore make themselves very vulnerable to narratives that they hear from the media about these types of people. And this is a new even in the age of the internet. Back in the 90s it was the exact same thing and to some extent it was even worse. Most people in the west don't travel, and especially back then you learned about other cultures through real life experience. There weren't videos on youTube that you go to or books online you could fine to read about those cultures Look, conservatives and conservatism desires to conserve certain values and traditional norms in the west they hold dear and are important to them. What I'm trying to illustrate to you is that this same conservativesm also locks people into narratives about other people who are not in cultural group.Think of Muslims for example. Everything I said above perfectly relates to the negative perceptions the right has about not only Islam but inability of muslims to assimulate into the West, all whilst having a poor understanding of islam itself and the different types from different regions, as well as the cultural influences from those regions that influence how well a person may be able to assimilate. It's not a simple thing to understand or grasp. It's very complex and complicated because human beings are complicated right wingers don't like complicated. they don't like nuance as we have all seen to the reaction to this video I think it's very sad that your father cut all his ties to his country of birth. Maybe there were other personal reasons for it, I don't know so it's not for me to judge. But typically people need to be able to hold on to connection to their culture origin. If you move to India, it would be irrational for one to expect you to cut all ties to your culture of origin and all the cultural norms you've grown up knowing. People need to feel that sense of connection because we are human beings with emotions, and the desire of conservatives to conserve their traditional values is just as strongly emotionally tied to those who want to hold on to their cultural values from their country of origin. Language is a big part of that I can tell you. I don't know where you're from, but I'm an American And family is from West Africa. I can tell you How close I feel to my country of origin and my culture when I'm able to speak my language with my relatives even in public. It's a good feeling. You shouldn't have to demand that people cut all ties to their country just  to show loyalty. I'm proud to be American. But I'm also proud of my culture
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