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To think in 2017 that this isn't the norm around the world just goes to show how good we have it in the west and how far we as a species has to go.
by icu 9y ago
To think in 2017 that this isn't the norm around the world just goes to show how good we have it in the west and how far we as a species has to go.
- ajeet_dhaliwal 9y agoThis is the norm around the world. Saudi and wherever this is not already the norm are in the minority.
- woodandsteel 9y agoThat's true, but think how much worse things would be if modern western civilization had never happened.
- legolas2412 9y agoI wouldn't go down the what-if road. While it is obvious that human rights are a result of progressive European and American countries. But the world would be a much different place if the Europeans didn't go around colonizing. Several of the Victorian era rules imposed by the Britishers in India were regressive. They also caused communal divisions for their own gains. It's not fair to forget the evils of imperialism while basking in the grandeur of industrialization.
- wand3r 9y agoIt really puts the new-wave American feminism into perspective. Americans/Europeans/Nords are living in a great time for equality. It's not perfect but: > This is the norm. China, India, Africa, the Middle East, parts of America and Europe - That is the norm or analagous to it.
- ajeet_dhaliwal 9y agoWomen don't need permission from a man to travel, make a police complaint or study in China, India and almost everywhere else, certainly not by law like this story. I'm just saying that it is the norm in almost everywhere in the world in 2017, Saudi Arabia is an aberration.
- narrowrail 9y agoThey still have a king! This is not normal. It's pure crazy town.
- flukus 9y agoA large chunk of the world still has Monarchs. The only notable thing about the Saudi one is that he still has power.