Culturism: The philosophy and science that acknowledges, promotes, and defends traditional majority cultures.
Some people hesitate to use and spread the words ‘culturist’ and ‘culturism,’ because they think it implies cultural relativism. “If culturism is the philosophy that protects, promotes and defends traditional majority cultures,” they ask, “do western culturists need to celebrate Pakistani culture in Pakistan?” The answer is an emphatic “NO!” This article will explain why.
As a science, culturism is normative. That is, it describes reality without adding a value judgment. Scientific culturism does not argue that it is either good or evil that traditional majority cultures protect, promote, and defend their traditional majority cultures. It is just a factual observation: All nations are, and all tribes have always been, culturist.
Pakistan practices culturism. We say this without celebrating it or denigrating it. Think of physics. England’s Sir Isaac Newton discovered gravity. Objects with mass attract objects with mass. To note this is not to celebrate gravity. To note that Pakistan is culturist is not to celebrate it. The observation simply confirms that fact that all non-western nations are (as we used to be) culturist.
What does follow from this scientific culturist observation, however, is that it is unnatural for the West to be the only place in the history of the world where culturism is not practiced.
And, in truth, the question we should ask is not, “will Pakistan be culturist if we accept culturism as a political norm?” It is a scientific culturist fact that Pakistan will be culturist regardless of whatever we say (same for China, Mexico, etc). The only meaningful question is “Will the West go back to being culturist or stay multiculturalist?”
“But morally,” our skeptic might continue, “doesn’t acknowledging culturism as norm mean that Pakistan’s culturist policies are normative? Are correct? Within Pakistan’s borders?”
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