Sunday Link Encyclopedia and Self-Promotion | Clarissa's Blog
Certain cultural standards that ought to be maintained and not everything diluted into some fuzzy cultural pluralism. What is actually human nature is to have certain cultural conventions, & to have an expectation for certain kinds of treatment, based on what is considered normal. That means there is only so far a society can go in integrating other “cultures”. At some point, there are going to be issues of contention.
I always speak up against those who assert we cannot criticize other cultures, especially in terms of their treatment of women because “it’s just their culture”. That is not only logically inconsistent as a stance, it is gullible, because a lot of the time it is a way of succumbing to guilty feelings about “Western power”. Actually, if your morality is going to be determined by the level of your guilty feelings, best listen to Sam Vaknin.
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