Reply #19: What you are talking about is imposing our culture on others.

[Cleita]

It was like trying to modernize Arab societies by forcing women to give up the veil. I am very much against that. Many Arab women choose to wear the veil or the hajib even when they don't have to, like in America. What I am talking about is calling certain institutionalized abuses on any underclass that people think is okay because it's their culture.

Now I would never go to Mexico and say anything about the children working for tips, but I certainly would say something to Wal-Mart, an American store. I think it would be up to us to insist that Wal-Mart pay a living wage, not only here but in foreign countries as well. Now if they still want to use kids after school to pack bags, then they should pay them an hourly wage for doing it.

Incidentally, I was listening to the radio a week ago or so and a Canadian caller said that they had managed to get one of the stores unionized in Canada. It's a start folks.