~~~Imported from [Wikipedia:Culture_war Wikipedia] on 2010-10-24~~~ |
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The ''culture war'' (or ''culture wars)'' in American usage is a metaphor used |
to describe political conflicts based on sets of conflicting cultural values. |
The term frequently implies a conflict between those values considered |
[Wikipedia:Strict_father conservative] or |
Wikipedia:authoritarian and |
those considered |
[Wikipedia:Progressivism progressive] or |
[Wikipedia:Liberalism liberal]. The "culture war" is sometimes traced to the |
1960s and has taken various forms since then. |
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== Battleground issues in the "culture wars" == |
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Most of these "issues" are actually attacks on Wikipedia:secular culture by [Wikipedia:Christian_right right-wing Christians]: |
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*Wikipedia:Abortion / Wikipedia:Reproductive_rights |
*Wikipedia:Age_of_consent / [Deoxy:media/Kids,_Sex_and_the_State War on Sex] |
*Wikipedia:Animal_Rights |
*Media:Climate_Denial |
*Wikipedia:Creation_vs._evolution |
*Wikipedia:Death_penalty |
*[Meme:MADDness Drinking age] / [Deoxy:pdfa War on Drugs] |
*[Deoxy:gaia/kidslibnow.htm Family values] |
** Wikipedia:Corporal_punishment |
** Wikipedia:Child_discipline, most notably Wikipedia:spanking |
*Wikipedia:Feminism |
*Wikipedia:Gun_politics |
*Wikipedia:Homosexuality, Wikipedia:Gay_rights, and Wikipedia:Gay_marriage |
** Wikipedia:California_Proposition_8 |
*Wikipedia:Identity_politics |
*Wikipedia:Law_and_order |
*Wikipedia:Media_bias_in_the_United_States |
*Wikipedia:Moral_absolutism vs. Wikipedia:Moral_relativism |
*Wikipedia:Multiculturalism |
*Wikipedia:Permissive_society |
*Wikipedia:Political_correctness |
*Wikipedia:Pornography / Wikipedia:Obscenity |
*Wikipedia:Privitization |
*[Wikipedia:Race_(classification_of_humans) Race], Wikipedia:Racism, and Wikipedia:Xenophobia |
*Wikipedia:Right_to_die and Wikipedia:euthanasia |
*Wikipedia:Secularism and Wikipedia:Secularization |
*Wikipedia:Separation_of_church_and_state |
*Wikipedia:Sexual_revolution |
**Wikipedia:Sexual_education and [Wikipedia:Sexual_abstinence abstinence-only] |
*Wikipedia:Stem-cell_research |
*Wikipedia:Transhumanism |
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