social conservatism relates to a "commitment" to traditional values concerned with family structures, sexual relations, patriotism, gun ownership and military invasions,
Im not too sure what they mean by military invasion
but the
family structure, sexual relations, patriotism (nationalism) is what I meant.
I'm sure you can insert
education & capitalism in the mix too.
I think my definition still applies when you observe the behavior and ideologies of black people globally
I think you both are pretty much correct about the definition. The military invasion thing does tie into nationalism as conservatism tends to blend with it’s tradition of siding with the state authority’s point of view.
A lot of this is complicated by a never ending venn-diagram of religious and social sub-cultures.
If we look at the conservatism of Tanzania we’d find that they seem to shun drug use and homosexuality in public. Many are Christian, but their culture tends to settle differences with street boxing or payment. They believe in work but not over-working, and they still cling to some past socialist ideas. They respect authority figures to a point (they killed someone in political office while I was there), but generally choose to look the other way on police bribery and issues neighboring countries no matter how intersted they are in seeing the outcome.
Afghans are further divided by the multiple overarching religions in different regions. They’re also divided by different tribal customs that keep them at odds. Political subversion and bribery is something that is encouraged social in certain tribes, total submission to perceived power is acceptable as well. Some rural Pashtun parts of the culture look at sexual conservatism as messing with boys and men for recreation while women are for procreation. The more urban groups shun all of that and would still be extremely conservative by our standard, yet considered “liberal” by their own. The western and northern parts of the country are more like the urban people of the east. General and religious Conservatism speaks more to traditional dress and ceremony there.
Conservatism can be very difficult to define when culture/religious/and defined freedoms come into the mix.
It’s even more difficult for Americans, Canadians, and Caribbeans that lost original values to slave trade and had to rebuild others traditions where they were at. Some of our current culture seems purely based in counterculture trying to separate from where we’ve landed.
We have to be truthful to ourselves and each other about what we may individually want and how it fits in what we may collectively want if there is to be a true collective in the future.