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Theodore Roosevelt: No nation can permanently retain any “social values” worth having unless it develops the warlike strength necessary for its own defence. Reality 200-100-50-20-7-2-1

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Theodore Roosevelt asked by the American Sociological Association to provide a response at the American Sociological Congress, Washington, DC, December 1915 for the following question: “How war and militarism affect such social values as the sense of the preciousness of human life; care for child welfare; the conservation of human resources; upper-class concern for the lot of the masses; interest in popular education; appreciation of truth-telling and truth-printing; respect for personality and regards for personal rights.” American Sociological Association Theodore Roosevelt’s response. WARLIKE POWER – THE PREREQUISITE FOR THE PRESERVATION OF SOCIAL VALUES In December last I was asked to address the American Sociological Congress on “the effect of war and militarism on social values.” In sending my answer I pointed out that infinitely the most important fact to remember in connection with the subject in question is that if an unscrupulous, warlike, and milit...

Nursery Rhymes on Cultures Knee - Western Version: Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. Islamic Version: Words, images, body language will ‘provoke’ me to break your bones with swords and guns and I will certainly hurt you.

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       Western Nursery Rhyme Outcome                                    Islamic Nursery Rhyme Outcome “We are language-using and culture-incorporating entities whose forms of experience, conduct, and interaction take shape in linguistically structured environments and are conditioned by the meanings they bear.”  Christians, CG 2007, 'Cultural continuity as an ethical imperative', Qualitative Inquiry, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 437-44. As research and our Western Democratic elite determine, political and security, words strung together by any Culture Ideology are not benign they are always constructed to have an affect,  "Words matter.",  just as words enable peace words also enable war: "Words are dangerous weapons."  New South Wales Attorney-General Gabrielle Upton, 2015. True  "Words are dangerous weapons." "words matter"  Australian Federal Polic...