1. These terms were used to explain why the oppressed lower classes didnt rise up in revolution e. Implicit in this, these subjects are embedded in social and political 6. Current Debates a. Right now Britain is debating fox hunting i. There are many of people on both sides of the debate ii. There are class issues imbedded in this b. A lot of these issues deal with ethnicity and women i. The most ferocious debates are about genital cutting c. Is there some kind of cross-cultural moral stance that will allow us to d. Often times the preservation of culture is used to argue for or against a practice i. Example: Indians who started hunting whales aga 1. Opponent said that they hadn t hunted for centuries, so there wasn t a tradition anymore 2. Said that since these people hunted in motorboats and used guns to kill the whales, the practice wasnt traditions 3. They even used the fact that these people lived in mobile homes to prove that they werent traditional e. Also, cultures are not uniform i. Though we project that third world"others " are uniform in their f. Example for debate: School girls wearing headscarves in France i. Many people come back to the issue of choice 1. If the girls freely choose to wear a headscarf, then they should be allowed to 2. The trouble is that choice is a Western value g. We are also deeply rooted in raising children a certain way i. Other cultures don' t give their children choicei. These terms were used to explain why the oppressed lower classes didn’t rise up in revolution. e. Implicit in this, these subjects are embedded in social and political consequences. 6. Current Debates a. Right now Britain is debating fox hunting i. There are many of people on both sides of the debate. ii. There are class issues imbedded in this. b. A lot of these issues deal with ethnicity and women. i. The most ferocious debates are about genital cutting. c. Is there some kind of cross-cultural moral stance that will allow us to critiques these practices? d. Often times the preservation of culture is used to argue for or against a practice. i. Example: Indians who started hunting whales again. 1. Opponent said that they hadn’t hunted for centuries, so there wasn’t a tradition anymore. 2. Said that since these people hunted in motorboats and used guns to kill the whales, the practice wasn’t traditions. 3. They even used the fact that these people lived in mobile homes to prove that they weren’t “traditional” e. Also, cultures are not uniform. i. Though we project that third world “others” are uniform in their culture f. Example for debate: School girls wearing headscarves in France. i. Many people come back to the issue of choice: 1. If the girls freely choose to wear a headscarf, then they should be allowed to. 2. The trouble is that choice is a Western value. g. We are also deeply rooted in raising children a certain way. i. Other cultures don’t give their children choice