Bingo! ....Ginny, you' have raised the ultimate question Saint Cornelius needed to have asked himself. Integration must come through dialogue submerged in mutual respect; not as arrogant rounds of force-feeding immigrants with the cultural diet of the administrators of power in all its corrosive forms. Cornelius, I will surely get back to this in a few days, perhaps! Many thanks, sidibeh 2006/11/26, Ginny Quick <[log in to unmask]>: > > OK, if you want to ban FGM, that is one thing, but has anyone considered > that forcing girls to > undergo an exam to "prove" that they've not had the practice done could be > just as "violating" as > the practice itself? Let's just say she's undergone the practice, you > want to make it worse by > making her get examined to see the extent of the FGM? > > > And let's say she's not undergone the practice, now you want to force > her to undergo an exam? > To prove that she' snot been? > > > I can remember being a teenager / child, and I'd have definitely been > self-conscience of my > body, and I'd have been completely uncomfortable having people examine me. > > > So, in order to stop one harm, you're going to do antoher. That's > real nice. And the only > reason why this is even being entertained is because, presumably? an > African said it. > > > What stops FGM is not forcing people to do certain things, it's > education, I guess, or I > hope anyway. It's educating people about the harm, and about how their > bodies work, and doing it > in a culturally sensitive way. I'd think. But when you start forcing > people to do things, when > you criminalize things like this, it just goes underground and people do > it anyway. And even more > so when you feel as though, rightly or worngly, people are attacking your > culture. > > > Ginny > > いいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいい > To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L > Web interface > at: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/gambia-l.html > > To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: > http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?S1=gambia-l > To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: > [log in to unmask] > いいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいい > いいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいい To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/gambia-l.html To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?S1=gambia-l To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] いいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいい