"I was watching a World War II movie in a theater, with an Asian immigrant friend, when I learned a lesson in culture that no university could have taught better.
In one battle scene, there is a cease-fire order, and a German soldier approaches the British position, under a white flag of truce.
The British commander steps forward, completely vulnerable, but the Germans do not shoot.There is a brief exchange of words, as the Germans demand surrender, and the British commander declines.
Both men then return to their positions, and the deadly fighting resumes.
My friend in the theater leaned toward me, and quietly asked, why didn’t they shoot the German?
I was both amused and horrified at the question.
It was unthinkable that one would shoot a man under a white flag, so unthinkable that it was literally laughable. I actually did laugh.
My answer was, they can’t shoot him; he’s under a white flag.
My Asian friend was perplexed for a moment, and then got it.
So, this is how Western people fight wars.
This incident sticks in my memory all these years later, because it enlightened me to a profound truth.
Not all cultures are equal. In that same war, the Japanese, for example, had utterly no regard for our white flags, unless it suited their purposes.
Their concept of honor was utterly unlike ours.
To them, it was the white flag of surrender that was dishonorable, and anyone who surrendered, friend or enemy, was a pariah.
...When Middle-Easterners take up residence in the West, they have no intention of adopting our values and morals.
Quite the opposite, they seek to impose their will upon us, by force if necessary, by mass murder if it comes to that.
...I have long wondered why it is that the American left supports unfettered Muslim immigration to America.
I am beginning to understand.
The American left shares many of the cultural values of the Middle East, including the practice of brutalizing anyone who openly disagrees with them.
Antifa is the glaring example of that."
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