> Please don't measure cultures using a yardstick from your own culture. Setting aside the particulars of this article, I take issue with this idea. External

> Please don't measure cultures using a yardstick from your own culture. Setting aside the particulars of this article, I take issue with this idea. External cultural observation and comparison is invaluable for bringing new perspectives to internal problems. That's not to say the outsider's perspective is more correct, but merely that it is illuminating in a way that is difficult to achieve from an ensconced position inside an echo chamber.