<p>i seen many videos of YWC (youth for western culture) and college students that try to promote western culture… and there is always extreme oposistion to it…like its a bad thing promote…</p>
<p>promote homosexuality?..yeah thats fine</p>
<p>promote the advancement of colored people…sounds fine with us</p>
<p>promote feminism and woman empowerment… cool</p>
<p>promote western culture… oh no, we can’t have that now… how dare you right wing nazi racists… opposition coming from both students and faculty… even white students are against it…</p>
<p>like are we really that self-loathing… the faculty and the students</p>
<p>like somehow that western culture is a bad thing… no other culture has done anything bad… there are saints… but western culture, colonizers… imperialists…</p>
<p>its pretty pathetic</p>
<p>im not right wing by no means, or left wing… i just see the MASSIVE hypocrisy from the left and liberal academics and students etc… when it comes to issues like these…</p>
<p>i mean you rarely ever see opposition against non-white/non-western empowerment groups…</p>
<p>white guilt?..idk… it just seems sad</p>
<p>Western culture is definitely not opposed. There are entire universities focused on extracting the best lessons of western civilization.</p>
<p>what colleges,Philovitist have an emphasis on western culture…</p>
<p>id expect european universities would have a bigger emphasis on WC then american universities</p>
<p>Philovitist was referring to the Great Books Colleges which include both the Maryland and New Mexico branches of St. John’s College, Thomas Aquinas College in rural California, as well as a couple other tiny schools. They primarily study Western thought throughout the ages, eschewing textbooks, and only reading the original documents. It’s a very interesting idea, but I’m not sure how much I agree with it. Here’s a good article about St. John’s: [Salvatore</a> Scibona: “Where I Learned to Read” : The New Yorker](<a href=“http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/06/13/110613fa_fact_scibona]Salvatore”>Where I Learned To Read | The New Yorker)</p>
<h2>Then there’s also UChicago, Columbia, and Reed which all use aspect of the Great Books philosophy for the core curriculum.</h2>
<p>But to the OP, I think the central issue lies with the idea that the Eastern school of thought isn’t being presented. Thus students are only exposed to the philosophies of Europe and the US/Canada, without being taught anything about the rest of the world. Even St. John’s offers a masters in Eastern Philosophy (or something along those lines) indicating just how different Western and Eastern cultures are, since the school doesn’t believe it can integrate Asian culture into its current curriculum. </p>
<p>Not many people actually attack teaching western culture. The main issue comes with the idea that it’s the only culture that should be taught, which becomes even more absurd when you consider China’s meteoric rise in global importance.</p>
<p>What ARE you talking about? The reason that Western culture isn’t promoted is because it’s redundant. Western culture is OUR culture and we provide those other groups to ensure that the white, male, straight voice isn’t the only voice. </p>
<p>Methinks you just want to stir up crap here so I’ll leave with that.</p>