Prague, Feb 9 (CTK) – Europe’s way of thinking is returning, almost unnoticed, to the ideology of Nazism of the 1930s in reaction to the refugee wave, Marek Hudema writes in Hospodarske noviny (HN) on Tuesday, referring to the gradual acceptance of views that would have been condemned a few years ago.
Various personalities and experts are suggesting that some cultures are unprepared for democracy and human rights and that human rights should not be forced upon anyone, Hudema writes.
At the same time, the personalities suggest that Europe should prevent the entry and settling down by certain groups with a culture and habits different from European, whose members firmly espouse views that go counter to European values, Hudema writes.
Cultural differences really do exist and cannot be denied. For example, it is quite difficult to build democracy without democrats, Hudema writes.
However, cultures change, they do not exist forever and individuals are not “interned” in their respective cultures forever. In addition, some of the influences the West tends to ascribe to “national cultures” may be but a simplification, Hudema writes.
At the same time, the opinion starts prevailing in the European discussion, gradually and inconspicuously, that members of different cultures are unable to change or adapt themselves, and that their views are inborn and given once forever. Or almost nobody in Europe opposes such opinions at least, Hudema writes.
This reminds of the position of Adolf Hitler and his ideological predecessors and fans. They said humans are determined by their inborn qualities such as their race, which has been replaced with culture, ethnicity or religion now, Hudema continues.
According to the Nazi ideology, all other factors play no role. There is almost no effect of education and upbringing, nothing like all-world humanity and human rights exists. Every person is predestined to live either in democracy or dictatorship, to behave to women and the environment either nicely or badly, Hudema writes, referring to the Nazi positions.
It is merely the question of time when it will turn out, like in the Nazi Germany, that every individual exists through their race, or through their nation or religion, in modern vocabulary, that each person’s fate is predestined, people cannot but clash with each other, and that an individual cannot change their fate, Hudema writes.
After World War Two, this view seemed to be definitively cast away, he continues.
In 1948, the U.N. presented the general declaration of human rights that are viewed as the rights of individuals who are free and can change their religion, opinions and faith.
The declaration contains not a single mention of a racial or cultural predestination, and it says it was the contempt of human rights and the rights of each individual that led to the barbarian acts in the past, Hudema writes.
“We, in our present considerations, seem to be starting to forget all this,” he adds in conclusion.
