[PsYcNeT]

To me, the practices appear distasteful, that is true. I also know however, that I look at it through a much different cultural lens than those who are immersed within the culture. It's difficult to be in the mindframe of a rural, uneducated farmer living in central China. That is utterly beyond my scope as a suburban white man from Canada.

That said, I suppose you can understand that I feel I understand the cultural behaviors of men in North America, which is why I push for mass change related to our collective behavior. Address what you know, I guess.

I make no claim to understand the thousands of cultural nuances of Chinese culture, but I have enough cultural awareness to know that viewing other cultures (particularly those more insulated portions) negatively when contrasted against my own culture is a futile and ethnocentric exercise. There remains an almost colonialist thinking regarding the majority of Asia and Africa nowadays, though I suppose East Asians are seen more in a "noble savage" type of light, as awful as that is.

EDIT: I guess the question is, what purpose does this kind of thread serve, other than the gross-out curiosity factor? To allow blowhards to rant about the evils of the Chinese culture? To claim moral superiority over a group that exists under an entirely different system of laws, cultural mores, and historical norms?