We Europeans are still trying to force others to live our way.

Since Europeans started interacting with other societies, we’ve tried to force others to live our way. Those who didn’t live like us were considered savages. Look what we’ve done to China and Japan. Look at what the Spaniards did to South America? Look what we did with the American Indian. Yes, the European has a long history of trying to force others to live their way. It has caused some of the largest wars known to the history of mankind.

We’re still doing it today. While the European and American liberals decry the treatment of American Indians and others who have historically been oppressed, they themselves are trying to export their way of life on others who live differently.

They are trying to force atheism and secularism down the throats of those who prefer to live in theocracies. This has put us at odds with the Muslim faith more than anyone else at this point. Muslims see us as a threat to a way of life that they have known for nearly 1500 years.

I have seen television shows that have shown white women going into Indian and African communities, telling women that they don’t have to tolerate their husbands anymore, and these white women are loaning money to these black and Indian women so that they no longer need to depend on their husbands. Yes, we are breaking up families overseas in order to make these old fashioned, traditional societies more in the image of our modern society where it’s less about families, and more about individualism within the confines of socialism. Is it any wonder that we are hated in many parts of the world?

Why is it that we feel the need to go into traditional societies and play a hand in changing them into a society that resembles our own? Why do we think our problems are any better than the problems that they face under their current system? Who are we to judge which is better? In many Muslim countries, the focus in on God and the family. There is nothing wrong with this.

This is a very complicated issue, worthy of highly educated postulations by better educated men than me. The gist of my post here is that we ought to leave others alone and focus on our own problems. We should allow others to live differently from us, even if we don’t agree with it. That is their right. What we’re doing around the world today isn’t really all that much different than what Europeans have done to others for centuries. Live and let live.