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We need to challenge the dominant culture: by ethics, principles and values.
-Tariq Ramadan
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We Need To Challenge The Dominant Culture:

Tariq Ramadan
We need to challenge the dominant culture: by ethics, principles and values.
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I was on television a couple of years ago and the reporter asked me, "how does it feel being on mainstream media? it's not often poets get on mainstream media." i said, "well i think you're the dominant media, the dominant culture, but you're not the mainstream media. the mainstream media is still the high culture of intellectuals: writers, readers, editors, librarians, professors, artists, art critics, poets, novelists, and people who think. they are the mainstream culture, even though you may be the dominant culture."
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As to ethics, unfortunately, we are still at sea. we never did have any popular base for what little ethics we knew, except the religious theories, and now that our faith is shaken in those theories we cannot account for ethics at all. it is no wonder we behave badly, we are literally ignorant of the laws of ethics, which is the simplest of sciences, the most necessary, the most continuously needed. the childish misconduct of our 'revolted youth' is quite equaled by that of older people, and neither young nor old seem to have any understanding of the reasons why conduct is 'good' or 'bad.
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There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find englishmen doing it; but you will never find an englishman in the wrong. he does everything on principle. he fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles; he bullies you on manly principles; he supports his king on loyal principles and cuts off his king's head on republican principles.
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We should never denigrate any other culture but rather help people to understand the relationship between their own culture and the dominant culture. when you understand another culture or language, it does not mean that you have to lose your own culture.
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I look to islamic ethics to find something that can provide the basis for shared values with other traditions, and ultimately universal values. this ties into the point i made in a book, 'the quest for meaning', that the only way for values to be universal is if they are shared universal values. my main point is, in this quest for value the aim is not to express your distinctness from others, but about being able to contribute to the discussion of universal value.
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