Who gets to say if not the people themselves? Assuming you know better than the people might be the boot stamping you don't see. (I'm not part of the culture

Who gets to say if not the people themselves? Assuming you know better than the people might be the boot stamping you don't see. (I'm not part of the culture and have no opinion of it. I just disagree that being east asian is irrelevant to something happening involving east asian cultures and religious practices.)