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Originally Posted by Unicase
.... the parents has no rights in stopping their child being what they want. Didn't they ever dream to be something else while their parents tell them not to do this because etc, etc, etc.?
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Traditionally speaking .... no, not really. Or .... yes, actually. Arranged marriages and such things are tradition to some cultures, for example. Look, in the U.S. it is fully acceptable to spank your children. In my country you'd be off to jail the moment you raise your hand to any child.
The thing is, what you consider proper treatment to your child would probably astonish me. Yet generation upon generation of Americans say things like,
"It was good enough for me to get a spanking and it didn't do me any harm so my children get more of the same stuff. It's the only way to make a man of them!"
Many Arab cultures (not all, and certainly not all Moslems either) see it as a Godly sin to marry out of the Islamic tradition, ie. for a Moslem girl to have a relationship with a non-Moslem boy/man. You can call my view prejudgiced or racist, if you like, but you've got to look at the facts if you want to understand the problem.