What Does The Rest Of The World Think Of DEI?
Now that Donald Trump is back in the White House, so-called Diversity, Equity, Inclusion is as good as dead in the federal government, the military, and hopefully every other institution if not already then soon. Thankfully, this Marxist-inspired poison has infected only the Western world, including Australia and New Zealand. It would be tiresome to list everywhere it has had zero effect, but here are a few places.
The map below shows the countries where homosexuality between consenting adults is still illegal. If it looks slightly unusual, it is because rather than being the usual Mercator projection, this is what might be called a politically correct map – a Peters projection – “which presents countries in their true proportion to one another”. It is lifted from the website of the grandly titled Human Dignity Trust.
Said map is dated October 2021, which means it may be slightly out of date, but it is clear that homosexuality is illegal in most of black Africa and the entire Islamic world.
Does this mean the rulers of these nations are bigots? No, it means they are intent on protecting their citizens, especially the young, from a lifestyle that for men can mean an early death and many medical complications. At one time, this was common knowledge, now, in the West, the medical facts about homosexuality can be found only in specialist text books and medical journals.
Although under Sharia, homosexuality can technically be punished with death, there are very few executions and not that many lesser punishments. The main purpose of the law is to keep it out of the public space, again, to protect mostly the young. In this connection it is well to remember that many teenagers, of both sexes, often experience transient same sex attraction. This isn’t necessarily sexual, and will usually pass in time if not encouraged as it is in the West.
The status of women in the Islamic world is often said to be inferior to that of women in the West. A closer look shows this to be untrue; in most places the only barriers to female advancement are the same as those faced by men, ie financial for the most part. That includes politics, for example, Spain has never had a woman prime minister while Benazir Bhutto served two terms as Prime Minister of Pakistan. She was assassinated in 2007, something that was a very real risk for leaders in the ancient world and which was undoubtedly one of the reasons that with the exception of the monarchy there have traditionally been fewer women in positions of power.
Iran has a terrible reputation for women’s rights, according to many Western so-called human rights organisations, but professional women are not thin on the ground. Because of its strict gender segregation, women are for the most part treated only by women doctors, so the trans madness of predatory males invading women’s spaces is not an issue there.
The treatment of race in other countries is also very different from the West. In recent years, the people who control the mainstream media in Britain have subjected the population to an intensive and very unsubtle programme of brainwashing. Any unknowing person watching a period drama would get the impression that Britain had a large black population for the past several hundred years. Indeed, some people with letters after their names would have us believe there were blacks serving with the Roman army at Hadrian’s Wall.
Ludicrous though that is, Nigeria isn’t going down the same route. The country was built by the British Empire, but now has only a tiny population of whites. Nigeria has been an independent republic since 1963, and although English remains the official language, in October 2022 its Government banned foreign models and voiceover artists from advertising.
China is another country that is said to have a bad human rights record, but while foreigners are welcome there – especially foreigners with money – the Chinese Government always puts its own citizens first.
If racial discrimination is frowned on in the West, in Malaysia it is written into the Constitution. The country has a large and prosperous Chinese population, around a fifth, but political power remains firmly in the hands of the natives.
Finally, when it comes to illegal immigration, the rest of the world isn’t the soft touch that are Britain, Ireland and Western Europe. Bogus asylum seekers arriving here are typically put up in hotels, and even given spending money, something that understandably causes resentment among the natives who are branded “racist” or now under the Starmer dictatorship “far right”. In some countries however, illegal immigrants are shot, if not by the security forces then by the natives. One of the worst places for this is South Africa where the natives do not take as kindly to unwanted foreigners as “racist” whites in Europe. What was that about the rainbow nation?