[MAexile]

Effed up culture is a major cause.

Strange beliefs that virgin girls should have sex the first time with strange magic men is one of the more extreme ones.

African culture must change or there will never be change in regard to aids there.

So much for all cultures being equally valid. Here's a case where the culture itself might wipe out it's own members.

[ashtanga]

Well, I'm a Westerner, and I am very clean indeed. It is not so much a cultural leaning, really, but a means of warding off the poxes that beset those who are lukewarm about hygiene. You should see me prep poultry! They make fun of my fastidious ways, but I worked in a hospital five years and connected some dots.