RE: Political Correctness and Language
The West attempts to define her culture in the absence of religion, common history, and regional/communal loyalties. Man does not form identities based solely on abstract, "universal" ideologies alone. Man's identity is defined by the physical and personal relations rooted in regional, communal, historical, and religious milieu. To fragment religion, locality, common history and challenge man to "define himself" leads only to insanity and insecurity.
The Jews, for instance, maintain their identity based on cultural and religious cohesion. They refer constantly back to a regional history and loyalty in defining themselves. The Christian West, in contrast excised Christianity from her society, destroyed any regional roots in the creation of the amorphous Eurozone, and imports millions of immigrants of completely different historic, religious, and regional awareness. This cultural suicide is defended with ludicrous term "multiculturalism" and any rational critique of European extinction is labeled "hate speech."
Most interesting is the fact that Quebec has defined itself as 'secular' and in a weird way uses this to protect its culture. Face-coverings have been banned when performing or receiving public services. People instantly screamed 'islamophobia', but the government said 'pfft! We are secular! No religious stuff is permitted to be displayed in public service areas!'. I think Quebec is the only place outside of France that dared to enact such legislation. Quebecers really have a weird relation to Catholicism, by the way. Plenty of reason to resent the Church (due to history), so I guess the secularism here grows from a different seed than the European version. But that is for another time... .