The main point I would like to make is what seems obscene to
us can very well be another nations culture and is it our place to tell them
how to live their lives? Western values aren’t the only values in the world and
no one countries culture is better than another’s. To say so is what makes the
world call most of us westerners arrogant. In a country where the sexes are
rigorously separated, where topics like sex and race are rarely discussed
openly and where a strict code of public morality is enforced by religious
police," the article noted, "Winfrey provides many young Saudi women
with new ways of thinking about the way local taboos affect their lives ...
Some women here say Winfrey's assurances to her viewers - that no matter how
restricted or even abusive their circumstances may be, they can take control in
small ways and create lives of value - helps them find meaning in their
cramped, veiled existence. In 2006, Youssef Ibrahim reported in the New York
Sun on Nabil Ramadan, the owner of a fast-food restaurant in Ranoosh who hired
two women to take telephone orders. Within 24 hours, the religious police had
him arrested and shut down the restaurant for "promoting lewdness."
Ramadan was sentenced by a religious court to 90 lashes. We from a western
nation can’t even fathom things like this. Our culture is so different that
what they accept as normal we find absolutely repulsive. I think we should not
try to control the world by telling people their culture is wrong. There are
better ways to foster peace in the world.
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