After all, it‘s still "their culture".
Okay, let‘s just say that I have a long history of Viking blood. Now, part of my history indicates that the Vikings used to sail to faraway lands, rape and enslave people, steal their stuff, and bring everything (slaves included) back home to party.
Well, what right do you have to discriminate against my lifestyle and my beliefs? It‘s my CULTURE, after all. And it shouldn‘t matter to you that I choose to exercise my cultural freedoms on your sorry *****, should it?
Oh...you mean you have an army, and police to prevent that sort of thing? Why? It looks like your culture is repressing MY culture. Is that nice? Is that designed to make me feel good? I feel like a victim here, being judged by YOUR moral standards...
Maybe if we all just sit down and discuss it, the problem will go away...we can discuss our cultural differences, and you can explain that I should rape and enslave only my own people. That would be such an improvement, especially for the people being raped and enslaved. After all, people are all different, and if you‘re getting raped as a Canadian, it will feel a lot different that if you were an Afghani...it would probably matter less to you personally too, right?
Merry Christmas = Eid Mubarak...it‘s only a cultural difference.
$8 an hour minimum wage, freedom to eat fast food, stay out late = staying in the house all the time with an abusive husband and being turned into a baby machine against your will...it‘s only a cultural difference.
Yeah. Whatever.
Freedom hasn‘t been "imposed" on the Afghanis, all that happened is that a particularly brutal group of thugs has been informed "Don‘t mess with the West, got it?" (Which means, "they wouldn‘t leave us alone"). A less brutal group of thugs in currently in power, and it allows more freedom to the people forced to live there because we‘re still holding the whip hand.
Besides, how exactly do you impose freedom? "You, over there, with a brain and beliefs that allow you to make choices....Make some choices that determine your overall welfare...Now! And don‘t ask my permission! And feel free to ignore me, immediately!"