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Human Dignity and Talmudic Law

Multicultural Significance of Human Dignity

M.F. Ashley Montagu (1968)defines culture "from the Latin cultura and cultus which means care, cultivation or allowing to grow something" (3). Originally the connation attributive to "agriculture ***** cultivation ***** the soil" (Montagu 3). Only later did the word describe attributes of man ***** elements of personality within a group ***** men. From ***** beginning, the concept of culture was difficult to disseminate. Even today in a world without borders or limits due to telecommunications technology, it is still difficult to grasp the notion of multiculture. Due its melt*****g pot, we are a culture defined equally by many cultures. Hence, the concept of multicultural*****m was born to accept everyone's culture. Lawrence Auster (2004) writes for instance, "America is an assemblage of racially or ethnically defined sub*****s, all of ***** have equal value and none of which can claim a privileged position" (1). Th***** definition includes all aspects of culture including that ***** religion and creed, gender ***** sexuality. It re*****y gives culture too ***** factors to be defined by accurately.

Still this definition fails to see that even though all cultures should be valued *****, there is still a hierarchy in existence that defines much of American society from the Western white point of view. Today, ***** frame ***** reference is fighting for a sh*****re as the original immigrants to this nation or ***** Europeans begin ***** become the minority. Still is surpr*****ing how whites ***** think of American culture is based upon European ancestry. Much ***** how the world is being ***** in terms of human dignity and human rights has much to do with the results of the Second World War. The aftermath left the ***** with many unanswered questions and ********** started a movement *****w*****rd a new world order because of the need to protect people's rights. Throughout history previous to the war, nations like the United States had established a foundation for defining human rights and ***** *****ning with the Declaration of Independence. This document begins with When in the course of ***** *****ts it ********** necessary ***** one people ***** dissolve the political bands which connected then with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, ***** separate and equal station ***** ***** the Laws of Nature and of Nature's god entitle them...We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights. (***** States History Organization, 2005, par. 1 & 2).

Still upon reflection ***** American History, it is understood ***** words did not include all men or women but white men specifically. Women, Blacks and later immigrants from other countries would fight for the rights this declaration established for others. Still this form of declaration is in ***** own way ***** defined by its time and indeed groundbreaking in premise. It sets forth the ***** that by coming to America, one can ***** rights ***** be treated equally.