Sunday, July 6, 2008
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Russell Berman: The Value of Values - '...But if one concedes that immigrants might benefit from knowing that the host society values, for example, non-discriminatory labor practices, and that therefore if they face discrimination they would have some recourse and, more importantly, understand how to obtain it, should the same immigrants also know that the host society similarly values women's rights? What about free speech or gay marriage? But actually the real question is not immigration and what immigrants should know but rather why western societies turn out to be strangely bashful about their own value contents...'
