WASP cultural imperialism over Mediterranean / Catholic sphere, in wake of WWII / NATO

Aimee Terese: please tell these WASP Twitter "Catholics" that they should de-convert if they can't handle Mediterranean norms of male-female relations. Re Aimee saying that it's easier to repair a relationship if the man cheats, than if the woman cheats. Something that all Meds and MENAs and Muslims would instantly agree with. Descriptive, not normative. Relative comparison, not absolute.

However, what seems obvious and even sacrosanct to one group of people may seem flabbergasting and even heretical to another group.

This all goes back to the ethnic composition of the anti-woke left, and therefore, the ethnic composition of the woke left (WASPs, Ashkenazi Jews, Mandarins, Brahmins). The elite stratum in American ethnicity has always been WASP, and more recently mixed with Ashkenazi. See the original posts here and here.

Anglo and Nordic societies have always been way more gender-egalitarian than Mediterranean societies. That's the understatement of the millennium. But the point is: this is an ethnic schism between Meds and elite Americans (primarily WASP, it seems, with some Ashkenazi Jews and Brahmins enlisting in this round of discourse policing against the no-good, very-bad Med woman).

WASPs are trying to police Meds like Aimee out of the discourse, even if their whole brand is being Catholic, and Aimee's people (Lebanese) have been Christian and Catholic since 2000 years ago, while the WASPs just converted last year (literally in most cases), and if they're not British, their people may have only been Christian for 1000 years or less.

Multinational religions like Christianity always syncretize to adapt to local norms when they are spread outside the original source. Hence the Protestant Reformation -- remaking Christianity to adapt to Anglo-Germanic norms, especially for people (like the non-British Germanics) who did not participate in the construction of Christianity throughout the seven ecumenical councils of the 1st millennium.

And that's all well and good. But then these WASPs and Nords should not invade the Catholic church and start ordering them around. In this case, there are larger forces at work -- a broader attempt to impose elite imperial norms on subject peoples, after the American empire swallowed up much of the Mediterranean in the wake of WWII, from Spain to Turkey.

They never did subject those pesky Lebanese, though, who kept the Yankees out of their country by blowing up the Marines barracks in the early '80s, and Uncle Sam figured their tiny country was not worth the hassle (no oil). WASPs, or any other group of imperial elites, can never get over such a humiliating failure.

They would only welcome and go easy on the Lebanese if they genuflected themselves and begged to be part of the Anglo-American elite stratum. But they largely have not, even when they hold professional-class jobs and run for political office (like Green Party fixture Ralph Nader, my only other vote for president aside from Trump -- triggering libtards for 20 years and counting). They are not reliable clients of the imperial hegemon, and are kept at arm's length.

Contrast that with the WASPs' treatment of the Turks and Turkey -- way more favorable and enthusiastic toward their culture and people. It's not the exotic appeal of a vowel-harmony language, or the novelty of Muslim babes who don't cover their long luscious locks. Nope: it's that Turkey has been a NATO member, and a reliable client, since the early days. Whatever suspicions the Anglo elites may have about the Turks, they have far deeper suspicions of the Lebanese, based on the history of imperial incorporation (or failure to do so).

It's irrelevant if any particular Anglo elite person is not consciously aware of this incentive or motivation driving their behavior -- material forces often do not rise to the level of overtly articulated reasons. But they remain powerful forces nonetheless.

Unlike Lebanon, though, Italy *was* defeated militarily (WWII), after which Rome and the Vatican itself (de facto if not de jure) became vassals of NATO and the cultural institutions of the Anglo-American empire. Cultural imperialism stems from political-military expansion. This Anglo imperial transformation of Rome and the Catholic church was formalized soon after Italy's defeat and incorporation into NATO, during the Vatican II councils of the 1960s. The Mid-20th C. was a latter-day war of religion, where the Anglo Protestants came out on top of the Med Catholics.

The good news for Meds and Catholics is that this was a rather late development in the American empire, as we reached our peak of expansion during / right after WWII. So it will be the weakest piece of the whole, and the most likely to break off from our sphere of influence -- unlike the American Southwest.

Once Italy, and therefore the Vatican, are no longer political-military vassals of a Protestant empire, as we Americans continue our ongoing disintegration, they will reclaim their traditional roles and norms and institutions. Not that they'll LARP as Early Modern Counter-Reformation hardliners exactly, but it would be surprising also if they didn't reconquer their church with a lot of pent-up frustration from having it Protestantized for perhaps a century or more by the time these changes come.

Aimee, you may not believe in "collapse" for ideological reasons -- but for your people to seize back control of their institutions from these Puritan interlopers, you may have to! :)

(And no, I'm neither Med nor Catholic. Born & raised Methodist, 1/4 French, but unclear if they were Cath or Prot since they settled in New England at first, not Louisiana. Just cannot stand seeing wondrous, millennia-old human cultural institutions getting gutted by fleeting imperial finger-waggers, whether Puritans or Salafists.)