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This is the norm around the world. Saudi and wherever this is not already the norm are in the minority.
by ajeet_dhaliwal 9y ago
This 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.