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I don’t see why it shouldn’t extend to other types of culture though. Its precisely because ‘culture’ is such a multi-faceted thing that I think ‘multiculturalism’ describes the modern world so well. If multiculturalism was simply two religious traditions living side-by-side, it would probably be less interesting.

I am surprised you think that this take on cultural evolution harms the LBGT community. Why can’t activism be a part of this evolution? If we are today seeing gay weddings, then the heterosexist hegemony you describe is clearly not strong enough to supress it. The activists have drawn attention to their rights, but the culture succeeds because it is a way of life that many people genuinely want to choose.

To round off the analogy, perhaps the culture you describe can be likened to the new mammal found in the Borneo jungle: its always been there, but only now can it come out into the open - and the world is a richer place for it. I am also reminded of the story of one of Darwin’s Galapagos tortoise who lived as a ‘He’ for about a hundred years, before it was revealed she had been a ‘She’ all along…

I know where you are coming from on this. However, I think you need to clarify yourself a little in paragraph 7. It can read like a horrible crude darwinism that supports the subjugation of the disenfranchised or cultures that have been weakened by being written out of history. “Protectionism will not work” - protection of the status quo? Absolutely. “If your culture is weak, it will need to change in order to survive” - or perhaps it will need to keep battering down the door erected by a heterosexist hegemony that has deliberately and consistently denied basic civil liberties to the ‘lgbt community’. We would not see the images we see in todays news were it not for activists from cultures weakened by institutionailsed prejudice refusing to compromise and accept anything less than equality.