| There is no "race." The genetic differences inherent in this species are so minute as to be irrelevant. It's not as if Spaniards can't fuck Aztecs, ferchrissakes.
However, there is culture, but the standards to which one can judge any other culture is always based on his own - biased - cultural values. This is not to say that ignoring people's culture is the answer; the answer most people attribute to "political correctness." The entire point of political correctness, since y'all love semantics so much, is to be diplomatic so as not to offend.
What we find repulsive and backwards (burkas) has its own correlation with what foreign cultures find so wrong with us (hotpants). This is not to say we cannot pass judgement; it merely means that we must understand the fact that as we do so we are speaking from a point of view that is not necessarily the paragon of morality, decency, intelligence, and discretion.
'Course, that's just my two cents.
. . . whenever any government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundations on such principles and organizing its powers in such forms as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. |