Should the UK respect the cultures of other countries?

[NotAllThere]

Disliking aspects of someone's culture isn't racism. Regarding some aspects of a culture as appallingly medieval and barbaric, according to the measure of your own culture, seems perfectly reasonable to me. Otherwise you're respecting all cultures except your own. I know some kinds of liberals go in for that kind of self-flagellation though.

[lilelvis2000]

To each their own...but do feel lucky that you were born here.

[SueEllen]

If that's what you really believe......

Well I do have the advantage of:
1. Being female
2. Having worked in other European countries which includes those with more equality between the sexes

BTW FGM is prevalent in Indonesia amongst the Muslim population so it would be more obvious on examination that some women aren't virgins.

[xoggoth]

When I was younger, I was propositioned so many times

I got propositioned on about my 2nd day there. Not by a woman unfortunately. Mind you that was a long time ago. Indonesia is not the relatively tolerant Muslim country it used to be, like all the others it's getting more extreme every year.

[lilelvis2000]

I got propositioned on about my 2nd day there. Not by a woman unfortunately. Mind you that was a long time ago. Indonesia is not the relatively tolerant Muslim country it used to be, like all the others it's getting more extreme every year.

Would not surprise if it gets load of money from Saudi which than sets up its Wahabi/Salafist schools there and lobbies the government.

[tractor]

....

Are beer and blow jobs allowed in Wales?!?! Erections are now banned in Scotland.

Whereas erections are held in Japan every 4 years.

And no, we shouldn't respect any culture that is so backwards that it uses religion to justify such barbaric practices.

[MarillionFan]

I got propositioned on about my 2nd day there. Not by a woman unfortunately. Mind you that was a long time ago. Indonesia is not the relatively tolerant Muslim country it used to be, like all the others it's getting more extreme every year.

I miss those days before kids, wife and a dog. Free to roam the world, stocking up my tat shop. I learnt both Indonesian and Thai. Travelled around both countries, islands. Been on the top of an active volcano at 3am gazing at the stars and lava. Motor biking around Northern Thailand, Laos. Being chased by opium drug smugglers with machetes in Burma. Fights with drug dealers in Katmandu. Staring at the Milky Way at the top of the Himalayas, watching the static of your yak sheets burst into colour in the dry air, buying and taking school supplies to refuges in the Golden triangle, seeing who had the biggest todger in a ladyboy Thai boxing changing room.

And here I am texting in a expensive wine bar in Santana Rowe with designer clad Silicon Valley American wannabes laughing loudly and listening to a covers band of middle aged hippies.

Sigh. When did I sell out.

[vetran]

And here I am texting in a expensive wine bar in Santana Rowe with designer clad Silicon Valley American wannabes laughing loudly and listening to a covers band of middle aged hippies.

Sigh. When did I sell out.

Salary Slut!

[MarillionFan]

Salary Slut!

Just 18 months and that's me set for life.

[vetran]

Just 18 months and that's me set for life.

good luck!