Dazu passende Auszüge aus Beesley und Widdowson
Geschrieben von Andreas am 05. März 2003 21:30:02:
Als Antwort auf: passt schon geschrieben von Mat72 am 05. März 2003 21:17:24:
Rampant de-legitimisation
Membership of a cohesive society, based on shared values attitudes and beliefs, lends legitimacy to one's behaviour - it is correct in the eyes of others. With ongoing discohesion during the descent, those of us who are accustomed to belonging to the majority group in our respective countries can expect to find our behaviour increasingly de-legitimised. Whatever our values, attitudes and beliefs, we will find that fewer people share them, and more are ready to denounce them as oppressive and unpleasant.
... De-legitimisation of traditional values will seem, from another aspect, as the ongoing corrosion of morality. This will be paradoxical. In becoming ever more tolerant towards the minority viewpoint and minority aspirations, societies will consider themselves to be far more moral than before. This will be based on the erroneous view that behaviour which does not tangibly injure another is harmless to the social fabric and that permissiveness towards the behaviour is therefore more moral than forbidding it. The reality is that even what people do in private - if it is advertised and celebrated - is corrosive of the social order, if it denies the assumptions on which that social order is based.
... Again, immorality means not the uniform deterioration of standards of behaviour but rather the proliferation of standards of behaviour - from the 'worst' to the 'best', as seen by any one individual. Thus, there will inevitably be groups of people who react against increasing licence by going the other way. On the streets of the future we can expect to see people in Mennonite or Islamic dress, flaunting their purity of heart as ostentatiously as others flaunt their sexual appetite. And indeed, we can expect to see all shades of opinion in between. The streets of the future will be a riot of styles and demeanours, even more than they are today, reflecting extreme cultural fragmentation. You will walk past a woman in scant clothing that boggles your eye, and immediately afterwards past one who is covered head to toe in black, including face veil - not just occasionally but all the time. And people in business suits will jostle past extreme ascetics, perhaps like those of contemporary India, who stand on one leg and so forth in order to demonstrate their complete indifference to the material world.
Ethnic Strife
... Thus, McRae expresses foreboding for the situation in Germany by 2020. It is vulnerable to a flood of immigrants from eastern and southeastern Europe - something that the ongoing problems in Yugoslavia will serve only to increase. Yet, as McRae says, Germany has never been good at accepting cultural diversity within its borders. Already, neo-Nazis are in the habit of torching immigrant hostels, and the movement is, if anything, growing not shrinking. In the event of the inevitable economic down-turn there, expect to see some ugly scenes. This does not mean a return to the Nazi holocaust - that kind of systematic genocide can only be performed by an integrated, cohesive nation against an internal outsider community. Ethnic conflict in a disintegrated, discohesive nation is not so ruthlessly efficient, though it is just as capable of atrocity. It will involve open fighting and is likely to be multi-sided.
... Britain will be far from unique in this, of course. Indeed its experience may be milder than most. France is an ethnic time bomb in which the far right has a strength and credibility that British fascists can only dream of. Similarly, the US has seen the rise of white militias going hand in hand with the growth of ethnic consciousness. This is a clear sign of the ethnic wars that are to come. Yet, the black community there is no more an immigrant community than is the white community. Therefore, when ethnic conflict reaches the stage of open fighting, it will be even less a matter of expelling the late-comer than in European countries. It may well involve what we now know to call ethnic cleansing, i.e. attempts to establish blacks-only and whites-only regions in different parts of the country.