American arrogance manifests itself in many different ways
an on many different fronts.
Cultural arrogance can be just as provocative as throwing
around military and economic weight.
I have often thought of this as I watched the US send
short-skirted feminist-type diplomats to conservative Muslim countries. Are you
trying to offend them? Do you think you're going to impress them with how
progressive you are?
All it does is emphasize the cultural difference and it
makes those involved very conscious of what the US stands for...
For most people that would be bombs, economic dominance and
exploitation supplemented by decadent cultural values.
America is so like Rome and like Rome the United States will
fall and it won't be pretty.
Sadly all of this is also associated with Christianity. This
should outrage us but the American Church is so far gone that most celebrate
these facts even if they don't embrace every aspect of it.
It makes our jobs as Christians all the more difficult. In
our cultural context we have to get people unsaved to get them saved and in
terms of the world we have to keep explaining the US isn't Christian and we
don't stand by US actions or its culture.
Not very patriotic.
Try telling that to the average Evangelical and see how far you
get.
But these days it's getting even worse...
I'm sure many of the Dominican officials don't even want to
shake this guy's hand.
As Christians we shouldn't treat this rather lost person in
that manner, but diplomatically this is the US grinding the Dominican's into the
dust. Do you know why they did this? Because apart from being a tourist
destination the US doesn't really care about the Dominican Republic. Due to
their geography they had better just shut up and keep in line or else the US
Marines will show up on their shoreline.
Sending this ambassador to them basically says... you are
nothing and we don't care if we offend you.
Shame on the Evangelical Churches for responding as they
are. If they want to protest there are plenty of other things to get upset
about.
That was the second time that happened. The United States occupied the country just a few decades earlier as well.
Personally if I lived there I would be offended that
American tourists dare to show their face but in the end money is what drives
most people and I'm sure this is no exception.
It's just another sad Latin American story but sending this
guy to be the ambassador is like spitting in their face.
