Why is it taboo to criticize a foreign culture?

Question

A few hours ago, I posted a link to a YouTube video showing the torture of a buffalo in China. Two people accused me of being a typical Western teen (I am neither, LOL).

This is not about comparing dog eating vs cow eating (which are equivalent in my book). This is about contrasting Western-style animal killing, which is bad enough as it is, and the animal-killing in the video, which was nothing short of horrific.

Don't let political correctness blind you to the faults of human beings.

Answer 1

They accused you because they need that animal to eat. And they have to feed 2 billion people, they have to kill in an efficient way regardless of the animal. Humans are more powerful than cows so they need to kill to eat. Its survival.

Edit: Im going to assume they had no actual tools to kill it so anyway to kill it, it would work. In the west we have expensive machines that kill instantaneous because long-term its cheaper. Possibly they cant afford that machine

Answer 2

The faults of human beings?

You hit the nail on the head.

Human beings will be the undoing of the Planet.

At last, someone with brains.

Answer 3

Many people think that animals are senseless property.

If you disagree with them, you're automatically an idiot, especially on the internets.

Answer 4

Ugh. I saw that video you posted, it was disgusting!!!!!! Though the people in the video may live in different circumstances, there is no reason to torture an animal like that.

Answer 5

Equate it with racism. You implied a certain superiority to your own pratices while demonizing the pratice of another. Bl;ack is better than white? White is better than black? What's the difference?Your own culture, whatever it is, have many practices which others may find repugnant. All cutltures for that matter have "traditions" which are arguably barbaric.

You chose to judge a whole culture based on nothing mjore than a few seconds or minutes of video on YouTube so what do you reastically expect reactions would be?

Do you know what those people were doing? Why they were doing it? The circumstances in which they were doing it? The life that they lead? The choices that they have? The belief system to which they adhere to? I don't think so.

A poster said something like "walking a mile in their shoes" which you dismissed altogether as a troll post. Ironically, that was the most reasonable post in that question

Answer 6

It is not taboo.  You just seem to be obsessed with something that you cannot control.  You seem to be the one that misses the point. You cannot judge all others by your standards unless you have stood in their place.