Today, many people express their outrage against Afghanistan’s controversial women’s protection law that their legislation, which includes 60 women lawmakers, apparently shot down. The conservative legislators said that the new law “encouraged sex outside of marriage” for women and that it promoted “westernization”, which is not compatible for Afghanistan’s culture.
The United States freed Afghanistan from the Taliban during the anti-terrorist campaigns of the country in the last decade. Now, as a democratic country standing on its own, the world expected the country to act more “civil,” a term that varies depending on which culture or country you came from. Anyway, this kind of civility the world expected did come to pass; women had more free rights and everyone had the right to enjoy what kind of thing they wanted to enjoy.
However, the world condemned Afghan legislators just because they put down a law that they deem destroys the integrity of their culture and their tradition. Just because one country wishes to stick with their tradition it doesn’t mean that they violate human rights. Speaking of human rights, human rights advocacies condemn the country as well. Like the word “civil”, the phrase “human rights” also varies depending on the culture or country you belong to.
The bottom line is, you just cannot westernize or globalize everything into a multicultural country. Like some country farmers, they prefer being rednecks because life is more comfortable and contenting that way. It’s the same way you tell someone off when they disagree with you. Every country has its own interest and culture and what the majority prefers is not what most minorities prefer, but majorities have no power or right to condemn the minorities as well.
