The Anglosphere
My previous entrance to this part of the forums has stirred up quite the hornet's nest from what I like to call the New Party. I use Party in the political sense, and by New Party I mean the somewhat new political movement of fanatical political correctness and extreme multiculturalism (extreme as in the belief that other cultures are as good or better than our own Western heritage, and thus preserving the West is immoral). My thinkings on the fate of the British Commonwealth have led me to reflect on the Anglosphere.
By Anglosphere, I mean the English-speaking peoples whose legal, political, cultural, linguistic and religious traditions descend from Britain and Magna Carta. The United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and I would include India as well, given its growth as an English-speaking centre. United by a language first and foremost (though that language tends to be denigrated by the young people of today, but that's another topic), and through that language the Anglosphere inherits a view of the world that is quite distinguishable from continental Europe's. One may even consider the Anglosphere the 'West of the West', as it were.
In the past, the Anglosphere has shaped the course of history by standing united against Prussian militarism in the First World War, Fascism in the Second, and the tides of autocratic and tyrannical communism in the Cold War. As the Anglosphere entered the 21st century, a fourth threat emerged, what I have dubbed 'Islamism'. Now, it is important to note at this point the difference between Islam the religion and Islamism the political force. Muslims are, on a whole, and from my personal experience, reasonable and lovely people who are just as disgusted as we are by the extremists of their religion, and in fact moreso as they know that their religion is twisted by that. Islamists are the fundamentalists and extremists who see the rest of the world as inferior to themselves, and seek nothing less than the destruction of the West as a political force and its replacement by the Middle East. So we must ask ourselves: Will the Anglosphere once again unite against this threat not only to our liberty and well-being, but the well-being of those people who suffer until Islamist regimes, like those who suffered under the Taliban before the NATO invasion of Afghanistan. I don't believe there's anything wrong with Islam as a religion, just like there's nothing wrong with Judaism or Christianity. But when it is twisted to extremes, like Islamism does, it becomes a monstrous thing. So will the Anglosphere once again shield us?
This is a distressingly open question. Extreme multiculturalism has led to a sort of cultural relativism by which our own belief in the English-speaking countries is undermined, and the Anglosphere's strength sapped. The immigration from denigrated Third World Muslim countries to the West is not a surprising fact, when your own country is crappy you naturally wish to move to somewhere better. However, because of extreme multiculturalism, we are no longer intergrating immigrants. We are no longer even trying to win them over to our language and outlook, we are surrending what the Anglosphere stood for and letting the fundamentalist minority of those Muslim newcomers be open with their extremist beliefs and murderous intentions for the West, all in the belief that we have to be perfectly accepting and accomadating for every aspect of a foreign culture, even at the cost of our own, and even when it's clearly not for the best.
Now, my rantings may have led some of you to the conclusion that I am a Right-winger terrified of the 'Asian Menace' or some such bollocks. I assure you I am not. I am an unabashed Whig, or Liberal, or Democrat if you prefer. I quite enjoy my Muslim neighbors presence in Canada, and I think that many cultures make a nation a much richer place to live in. HOWEVER, my Muslim neighbors are moderates, they are reasonable people, they have intergrated into Canada, they speak English fluently, they don't seek to impose their religion and culture on their new surroundings, they are Muslims, not Islamists.
Despite the kind of cultural guilt many people feel for the imperialism in the Anglosphere's past, we must acknowledge that the world would be a far nastier place if it hadn't been for the Anglosphere. And the world will be a far nastier place if we English-speakers don't get our act together. Again.
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Originally Posted by The Super Pope
it, without willem the 3e there would be a dutchosphere....
