Quote Originally Posted by El Kabong View Post
"Advanced" instead of "Better"

"Here in the West, we're Advanced....we don't beat our women for deciding to wear pants or throw gays off of rooftops"......I mean however it makes sense to you I think "Advanced" could seem a bit condescending like those folks in the Middle East don't have access to the internet or whatever.

"Here in the West, we're Advanced....we don't marry our first cousins" http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/01/wo...nbreeding.html
"Across the Arab world today an average of 45 percent of married couples are related, according to Dr. Nadia Sakati, a pediatrician and senior consultant for the genetics research center at King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Riyadh."

.....however you look at it man, there's things that happen in other cultures we can learn from and then there's things we can LEARN from and never ever do ever.



"We don't throw gays off rooftops"

Of course not. But there's plenty of documented, violent crimes against gays in the U.S.... one of the most recent being the infamous shooting at the Orlando gay bar. It's not part of the mainstream culture to violently attack gays, of course, but a lot of misguided, hateful people do. It's not part of the Saudi culture to throw gays off rooftops... but I'm sure it has happened lots of times. It goes back to my original statement.

"We don't marry our first cousins"

Again, the vast majority of Americans don't. But there's documented issues with inbreeding in states such as Kentucky. Again, you can't judge a culture because of some extremist sectors.


When all is said and done, I'd rather live in this part of the world than in the Middle East..... but that's mostly I was born and raised in the West and am used to our ways. If I'd been born and raised over there I might very well see things a little differently.