From: feotus@yabbs
To: maedhros@yabbs
Subject: re: Singapore
Date: Fri May  6 17:51:49 1994

cultural perspective would not make, the branding of woemn "okay" because 
there culture made it OK.
 
Like I stated before it is a fine line between cultural tolerance, and 
moral ignorance.  Where do we draw the line between fighting for huan 
rights, and infringing on other cultures?  I myself cant give any hard 
answers to that one.
 
But damn if it didnt piss me off to see that guy act lieif America 
condemnded it, it must be wrong.  The thing is, we cant sayit's wrong 
simply cause we disagree with it from our american perspective but it 
could be considered inhuman from the perspective nuetral to it, like the 
plain human perspective, or a international perspectiuve.
 
the point is you cant just let govts opress people because they ssay its 
in their culture, but you cant force culture to p[ick up malls, tv 
gameshows and capitolism cause we ant em too.
 
I mean PolPot, Argentinia etc.. all of these places and regimes are known 
as human rights violators, regardless of their culture.  Ithink we need ot 
lookat the line we are drawing.