I actually share the reluctance to say that my own culture is better than others because I too have post-colonial guilt. When your country has trampled on & exploited other countries, you get a little reticent about criticising them or claiming moral superiority of cultural normshttps://twitter.com/HPluckrose/status/995814886545543168 …
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However, I think this is best dealt with by being consistent. The same liberal principles which tell me it is wrong to exploit other cultures by force for personal gain tell me it is wrong to deny rights to women & ethnic, racial & sexual minorities. It's a care/harm thing.
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Fortunately, we do not have to pick a side and decide one to be clearly morally virtuous in all ways and the other to be morally bankrupt.
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Yeah, the best thing to do really is decide on which values are good for a culture to have, then promote them and praise them where they are. Westerners should be cognizant of how recent many of these good values are though.
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And even when we criticize or defend certain cultural practices, we'd do well to be less Western-centric. FGM doesn't look any better from a Japanese perspective. The global effort of "Western medicine" is not Western and never has been—let's call it "evidence-based medicine."
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Particularly as so many western countries are reliant on attracting doctors from India, Pakistan, Nigeria etc.
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