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A friend in Lagos made me stop lecturing about female circumcision
She said I was just another outsider shaming her culture without knowing the local context, and after she explained how the practice is tied to marriage prospects there, I stopped pushing my Western views and started asking questions instead, anyone else had a local set them straight on a taboo they thought they understood?
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elliot_miller2219d ago
What if the real problem is poverty, not culture?
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