Being from a minority culture, I realised the importance of looking at non-Western cultures in a positive way.

I maintain that Western popular culture at its best is worthy of respect and should be cherished as much as the operas of Wagner.

Of course slavery and the Muslims were deeply implicated in the slave trade, Islam was an Imperialist religion which destroyed Christianity in the Near East, yet nobody mentions those facts.

Each time you admire the façade of the New York Public Library, you are paying homage to Western civilization.

Being from a minority culture, I realised the importance of looking at non-Western cultures in a positive way.

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness: this triptych succinctly defines the attractiveness and superiority of Western civilization.

It is the West that has liberated women, racial minorities, religious minorities, and gays and lesbians, recognizing and defending their rights. The notions of freedom and human rights were present at the dawn of Western civilization, as ideals at least, but have gradually come to fruition through supreme acts of self-criticism.