Sunday, November 15, 2009

How Ideology Slowly Changes the Make-Up of a Society

Here is a very important discussion about transracial adoptions at The Thinking Housewife.

I have put the link here at Our Changing Landscape even though it doesn't pertain to Muslim issues directly. But, it is the same idea of changing a country's make-up through ideological or political reasons.

Muslims are allowed into Canada and America without second thought as to how they will contribute to these countries. Yet, what thy have done is slowly change things to fit their cultures and societies.

Similarly, adopting children from faraway, culturally alien lands, changes many factors in the societies into which they are adopted. In Angelina Jolie's case, the smart and cute Zahara is made to feel, by my assessment, much more at home than the blonde and blue-eyed Shiloh. Yet it is Shiloh's home and country by ancestry and by inheritance. Zahara is the newcomer, the visitor.

There are many more issues discussed at Laura Wood's site. I strongly recommend that you visit and read what is there, including some very interesting comments.

Now that Laura has enabled me to be brave enough to tackle that kind of subject, namely immigrants from non-Western countries and the West's desire to do good by these immigrants, I will hopefully start writing more direct posts on those issues.