True. But all that says about the global scouting movement is that scouting, globally speaking, is not vastly more progressive than the rest of the planet. To be a global organization, we have to tolerate a lot of differences.
So when the local scout organization of Saudi Arabia runs Arabian scouting by Arabian values, they wont be kicked out. And as long as they aren’t more old fashioned than the Arabian scouts, the BSA won’t be kicked out either.
What’s special about 1967? They’ve had 107 years in the US. But then, would you have expected them to be modern in a 2017 sense fifty years ago?
Of course. That would be Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of the scout movement. If a youth group calls itself “scouts”, that’s where they’ve got their roots.
The ideological base being “the early 20th century”. What people thought back then is pretty troubling by modern standards; luckily people and their thoughts have never stopped evolving.
I feel personally offended by this. And you don’t know what you’re talking about.
No.
In fact, they were inspired by all the youth groups that existed in Germany at the time. Scouting was one of them, but not the only one, and Scouting in Germany had already been mixing and exchanging ideas with other local groups. During the NS regime, scouting, along with all other non-Hitler-Youth groups, was outlawed. Most scouts were not in favor of Hitler at all.
“The skills of military scouts” - surviving out in nature, or at least pretending to be able to. Very evil, apparently.
Dogmatic? No. The BSA, maybe.
Mainstream values? As opposed to what, fringe values?
Instilling values? Why the hell not?
