Prominent Canadian Women Press For Gender Neutral Anthem

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[The Dharma Bum]

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Also since consumerism is our main cultural imperative, our economic viability depends on it, it is foolish to say it is irrelevant.

[The Comrade]

denying western cultural imperialism is pretty silly TBH. and by western i mean mostly the US.

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[The Dharma Bum]

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And now we're back to square one: how does saying Merry Christmas impose a culture on someone? Lay it out. I could be saying it for lots of reasons, and what I mean by it could be multiple things. It might just be a habit, because I grew up celebrating Christmas. Maybe I'm religious and I want to wish you well in a way that is important to me. Maybe by Merry Christmas, I mean "You need to spend lots of money because consumerism is God." Or maybe I'm saying it to brainwash you into the values of corporate capitalism.

It simply comes down to the fact that you don't like Western culture, and don't want people who do to express it, because you view it as damaging. That is a cultural imperative - your cultural imperative, which shouldn't and needn't be adopted against the will of anyone else.

[The Dharma Bum]

It doesn't matter what you personally gain from being the source of transmission for this signal of cultural domination, it matters what the current social order gains from it, which is passive conformity to it's desired cultural expectations.