Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Limitation of UN's Declaration on Cultural Rights

We quoted UN's declaration on cultural diversity on this blog, it does not mean we endose its content in all detail, it is referered because UN is an important organization. It menas, in spirit, cultural diversity is something deserved the respect and recogonition, but we differ from UN in what constitute the Cultural Rights.

The limitation of UN's declaration is it only recogonized the use of languages etc as culture, it do not mention the rights of cultural ideology as part of the cultural rights. 'human rights' are always assumed as an 'universal value' but fundermentally current main stream interpretation for human rights (practised by western human rights group) are the manifastation of western ideology. Wikipedia pager on 'Human Rights' is locked, why? where are too much disgreement on what is human rights.

For sure individualism is easier to accept by people because it satisfy human's 'selfish nature'(To understand the definition of selfish nature here, please read Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkin, it's the biological needs of individual ), because of that 'rights' is always easier to accept than 'responsibility', therefore individualism has its evolutional advantage in competing with other ideology, that's why we see its popularity around world, but popularity does not necessarily equal to truth, religion is also ver popular all around world, but study suggest the popularity is due its contribution to the psychological well being of human - popularity does not imply religious interpretation of the world equals to truth. Although individualism maybe better for individuals in the short term, it may not be a good thing for the whole speciese or our planet.

In the eyes of 'God/Gods'(Its refer to the general Gods, the perspective from outside human interests), A culture emphsis responsibility is no any inferior than a culture focus on individual rights. just like a sheep's life style is nothing inferior then a lion, they are two dimesions and can not be compared just like you can not compare time and space, all our moral judgement, including our passion for rights and responsiblity has its evolutionary roots and purposes.

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