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Originally Posted by Oliver_W
How is ranking cultures a bad thing? The best you can say about Syria is that hijab isn't mandatory; but women still have limited rights, as do LGBT people, and grown men can marry 13 year old girls. I think saying that makes Syrian culture less-good than ours is pretty fair.
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Syria has a rich history and culture of thousands of years. Child brides are a problem in every part of the world where religious conservatism is a thing. Look up child marriage in the US.
When countries become the arbiter of the validity of other cultures, it never ends well.