Yet another example illustrating how just because another culture is different doesn't make it better. Seems to be the past 20 years or so we are all too happy to bash our own culture and while trying to embrace other cultures we seem to not hold them up to the same standards we hold our own.
Micheal Vick is a clear example of this. In 21st Century American culture, staging dog fights and excuting the loser in brutal fashion for entertainment purposes is considered wrong. Some Vick apologists try to say that it's part of African-American culture to stage dog fights. If you truly believe it's a wrong practice why would anyone let him off the hook because it's his culture?
When people talk of culture clash I recall reading about the British soldiers occupying India. In India it was common practice to burn alive the widow of a dead man with his body shortly after his death. When the British soldiers took exception to this practice the locals made a cultural arguement that this was common practice and thus the British should allow it. The commander responded "In our culture it's common practice to hang whoever would do such a thing, so go build your fire and we'll build our hanging post right beside it."
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