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Originally Posted by warrrreagl
I think one of the biggest wastes of time is to loftily condemn practices from another culture through the ivory tower of your own. Cultural bigotry. It's West Africa, not Iowa. Unless you're from there, how can you possibly judge the value or morality of someone else's unique customs? IF breast ironing bothers you, then don't raise your daughters there.
That's no different than telling Scottish men to stop wearing kilts because men in your culture just don't DO that. Ewww.
Are you really suggesting that we send some kind of army of American righteous-culturists into another nation and tell them to stop doing something because it makes us uncomfortable? No wonder people hate Americans.
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Nobody is suggesting that we invade and change their culture, but it's perfectly acceptable to condemn mutilation that is part of a culture. This is clearly harmful and has potential to affect half of a country's population, therefore it is worthy of discussion and condemnation. Is it cultural bigotry if I condemn cultures that allow public mass executions of women whose crimes include showing their faces, having sex before marriage, or being raped (leaving them unpure)? It's part of Islamic exremist culture, so does that mean it should be immune to criticism based on my "cultural bigotry"? What if I say that gassing jews, homosexuals, and non-aryans was just part of Nazi culture and therefore you can't condemn it? (lol Godwin's Law.) Where does cultural bigotry end and observation of human rights begin?