Line #11 Quotes/CultureJustifiesAnything


1	->''"STOP OPPRESSING MY CULTURE, YOU ETHNOCENTRIC BITCH!"''
2	-->-- '''[[HeroicComedicSociopath Belkar]] [[SerialKiller Bitterleaf]]''' to [[ThePaladin Miko Miyazaki]], defending his right to protect his ChaoticEvil alignment from detection[[note]]Technically, the made-up tradition of carrying around a lead sheet that blocks her [[DetectEvil ability to do so]][[/note]], ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick''
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4	->''"There comes a point where acknowledging cultural differences doesn't cut it any more and you just have to say; 'What the fuck, guys?'"''
5	-->-- '''[[Creator/BenCroshaw Yahtzee]]''' [[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation in his review of]] ''VideoGame/Yakuza4''
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7	->''People up and down the street\
8	Crushing weasels beneath their feet\
9	Why we do it, who can say?\
10	But it's such a festive holiday!\
11	So let the stomping fun begin\
12	Bash their weasely skulls right in\
13	It's tradition; that makes it okay!''
14	-->-- '''Music/WeirdAlYankovic''', "Weasel Stomping Day"
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16	->''"At the moment I don't give a damn about Klingon beliefs, rituals or customs! Now I have given you both a lot of leeway when it comes to following Klingon traditions, but in case you haven't noticed, this is not a Klingon station and those are not Klingon uniforms you're wearing. There is a limit to how far I'll go to accommodate cultural diversity among my officers, and you've just reached it!"''
17	-->-- '''Captain Sisko''' dressing down Worf for trying to honor kill his brother, ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''
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19	->'''Torres:''' Are you telling me that I can't pursue my spiritual beliefs?
20	->'''Captain Janeway:''' B'Elanna, I'm not going to let you turn this into a debate about freedom of worship.
21	->'''Torres:''' But that's what it is.
22	->'''Janeway:''' There's a limit to how far I'll let religious practices go aboard this ship. If your belief system required you to sacrifice a child to your gods, I wouldn't allow that either.
23	->'''Torres:''' That's an absurd example.
24	->'''Janeway:''' You want to [[FlatlinePlotline simulate a near death experience]] so you can revisit the Barge of Death, and you're telling me what's absurd? Bottom line, B'Elanna: I'm not going to let you risk your life for this.
25	-->-- ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', "Barge of the Dead"
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27	->''"We took possession... in accordance with our custom and we caught all the people. Not one escaped. Some ran away from us, these we killed, and others we killed--but what of that? It was in accordance with our custom."''
28	-->-- '''Maori warrior''' on the conquest and genocide of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_Islands#M.C4.81ori_conquest_and_genocide Moriori]].
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30	->'''RALH. Tuvok:''' ''(answering Capt. Kanril Eleya's rant about the Kobali wanting to turn her dead crewmen into more Kobali)'' I do not disagree on any particular point, Captain. But Kobali culture does consider it a great honor to be specifically selected rather than merely scavenged.\
31	'''LTJG. K'lak, son of Rokar:''' Yes, and my species' dominant culture considers it honorable to attack unarmed passenger liners from cloak.
32	-->-- ''Fanfic/LastRights''
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34	->'''Ellen:''' You mean like a cult?\
35	'''[[NoNameGiven Not-Tengu]]:''' A "cult"? Honestly, such intolerance of other people's beliefs.\
36	'''Ellen:''' ''You enslave minds!''\
37	'''Not-Tengu:''' And I believe that's okay.
38	-->-- ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive''
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40	->''"[[http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jan/20/joe-biden-slams-gay-rights-abuses-abroad/ LGBT people]] face violence, harassment, unequal treatment, mistreatment by cops, denial of health care, isolation — always in the name of culture. I’ve had it up to here with culture. I really mean it. Culture never justifies rank, raw, discrimination or violation of human rights. There is no cultural justification. None. None. None."''
41	-->-- '''UsefulNotes/JoeBiden'''
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43	->''Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs.''
44	-->-- '''Charles James Napier''' on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sati_(practice) sati]]

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