Originally Posted by
pannonian
You love that phrase "cultural genocide". Sometimes change is good. It used to be the custom in some parts of India to burn widows at their husband's funerals. When a British governor caught wind of this, he banned the practice. When male chauvinists protested that it was their custom, the governor agreed to lift the ban, on condition that a gallows was erected next to the funeral pyre, to hang anyone acting to burn the woman. He explained, "It is the custom in India to burn widows on the funeral pyre, and this he will allow. It is the custom in Britain to hang people who kill innocent women, and this he will enforce." No one took him up on the offer, and the practice died out. Today this enforced cultural change is considered by Indians to be an undisputably good thing that the British did. But to you it probably stinks of "cultural genocide".