Are Christians and North American's cowards?

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pizzahut451 said:

so you think when people become risher they dont care about thieir heritage anymore???  You know, there is this thing called PRIDE.  Its when your proud of country, religion or culture and you dont wanna change it because suddenly you recive more money. Can you understand that? I personally wouldnt let my country or culture dissapear because some asshole gave me money. Its called being a bitch

By "richer" I mean the country as a whole. When a middel class will develop those people will be able to have decent living conditions, and will have better access to information and education. The younger people will be influenced by the media and Western entertainment. Not to mention that as living conditions improve and more and more people will get past their own ignorance they'll start rejecting the restrictive, authoritan elements of their culture. People there will start embracing and fighting for things like human rights, geneder equality etc. (idas developed and respected in the West), even if those things are against their traditional  cultural norms, because all people want is happyness and freedom, (and for better or for worst the Western culture has done a better job of offering people that than any other place in the world). Restrictive, authoritan societies only survive as long as the people are ignorant enough to not relise that things can be better.

And culture is constantly evolving, people are influenced by every bit of information they recieve, and in this day and age when people have access to the Internet and watch movies and TV shows it's not hard to guess which culture is infleuncing the world the most.

As for your "pride" argument, some local elements will remain (if you go to any part of your home country you'll see that there are specific practices and traditions), but overall culture worldwide will become more and more homogenous (which is a very good thing I might add).