Pete
05-11-2013, 07:27
Letter from Africa: Miniskirts and morals
An interesting article on morals.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-22375730
"............An explosion of cultural colonialism in the form of hip-hop, pop, belly dancing, pole dancing, satellite television - which beams the dramas of other lives into African homes and the fashions of a recklessly cool world youth into African minds - has had the likes of Mr Lokodo scrambling to hold back the waves of moral corruption he imagines are coming his way.
Mr Lokodo's Anti-Pornography Bill has not defined "pornography" as we may or may not encounter it on the streets of Kampala, nor does it tell us what his ministry intends to do about the very real pornography available at the touch of a cursor on the World Wide Web of which Uganda is a part. ..................."
While POed at the infiltration of western dress into their country - one of the posters nailed it.
"This is a typical piece of turning history back to a convenient point where it supports whatever argument you want to make. If he wants to preserve 'tradition' then women would have to go topless and wear animal skins. It was western dress that changed all that. So when you buy into western dress, you buy into its changing fashions. His view is typical of men who want to control women."
An interesting article on morals.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-22375730
"............An explosion of cultural colonialism in the form of hip-hop, pop, belly dancing, pole dancing, satellite television - which beams the dramas of other lives into African homes and the fashions of a recklessly cool world youth into African minds - has had the likes of Mr Lokodo scrambling to hold back the waves of moral corruption he imagines are coming his way.
Mr Lokodo's Anti-Pornography Bill has not defined "pornography" as we may or may not encounter it on the streets of Kampala, nor does it tell us what his ministry intends to do about the very real pornography available at the touch of a cursor on the World Wide Web of which Uganda is a part. ..................."
While POed at the infiltration of western dress into their country - one of the posters nailed it.
"This is a typical piece of turning history back to a convenient point where it supports whatever argument you want to make. If he wants to preserve 'tradition' then women would have to go topless and wear animal skins. It was western dress that changed all that. So when you buy into western dress, you buy into its changing fashions. His view is typical of men who want to control women."