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There is no such thing as cultural purity (and why we should start valuing humanities more) (lemmy.ca)
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A/N: This not about purity culture in terms of sex and sexuality.

I myself picked up humanities for my university course after abandoning STEM. And it taught me a lot of gender, identity, sexuality, religion, culture and philosophy. So a lot of online discourse make me want to pull my hair hair.

Recently I stumbled onto Arab colonialism discourse and Islamisation across the world. Arabisation was a very real thing that happened in Middle East and North Africa. But Islam did not spread every where the same way through imperialism. Especially South East Asia where Islam was introduced mainly via trade,

Words mean things.

Colonialism is not just one thing replacing another. Syncretism is not the same thing as cultural genocide.

Culture evolves and changes through trade, exchange, marriage and so on. There is no such thing as a "pure", "true" culture. There never was.

The reason why we treat European colonialism so differently was because it enacted active genocides against native people. It wasn't just that they introduced English and everyone just adapted it. They enforced programs to "breed out" native population. They excavated resources from colonies to enrich themselves which left the native people disenfranchised.

Someone said: "...sometimes I feel so sad that as a Malay I will never know who I truly am and how our people were REALLY like. Our traditions are literally gone and forgotten."

No they still exist and evolved. As all cultures do. You just need to look for them

South East Asia was not a victim Persianate or Arab conquest, so there wasn't really a body of foreign force Arabising the culture. South East Asians not only adopted Islam but shaped it. In some Javanese cultures they syncretised Islam with local spiritualities and that is how you have Salametan.

My ancestors were conquered by Persianates but even then, Islam was not a top-down imposition that took place en masse. The culture evolved. And even then, South Asia never had a singular "pure culture".

The Punjabi-Sikh culture is vastly different to Tamilian-Hindu culture.

That is not a bug but a feature of cultures.

But most modern Muslim societies can feel like it's losing folk cultures and religion. That is because of petro-dollar funded salafi reforms where the "pure" version of Islam is Arab by default. And folk interpretations are bi'dah.

Anyway, my point is, I need people to start taking at least one unit in anthropology. And stop adopting other people's trauma as our own then making revisionist history.

We will never know what your people were "really" like cause they were humans not static caricatures. They were dynamic and sometimes those changes would take place within less than a hundred years.

Having your "true" self being tied to a pure version of your ancestors is a wild goose chase. I mean if you really want to commit then start painting the caves.

Also the concept of a "true" and "pure" culture is how you get tribalism. Its how we got Zionism too.

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