If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don't express your disregard for the essence of the culture. It's a form of aggression.
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Law is downstream from culture. By the time you make a law about something, you're reacting, not acting. I'd rather shape the culture.
Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.
When somebody takes a child from their native culture, that is in itself an act of aggression.
When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself.
Well, one hopes that if you're really related to the core of your particular culture, you have profound commitments to it, and that you are aware of how much you can strain it before you do violence to its essential nature.
You have to accept the rule of law, even when it's inconvenient, if you're going to be a country that bides by the rule of law.
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.
It's more important to promote a culture of life. What I mean by that is that I believe what we need to do is not change the law, but change hearts.
To be counter to the culture, you are by definition willfully and actively ignoring the culture, i.e., reality.
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