Be prepared to get mightily depressed.
When I was in London I lived in an area with a large Somali population. It was hobblingly, limpingly obvious that FGM was being performed on young girls during the summer holidays. No-one did a shit of course.
I volunteered to help an FGM charity about eight years ago, but never heard back. I think it was a scam charity.
I'm not surprised. I guess I'm "outing" myself here, but I'm Somali and I remember a few years back, my mom said she wanted to do the procedure to me, but wanted to have it done at a more respectable place, like Saudi Arabia.
I thank my lucky stars every day for her laziness.
Mind you, *she* didn't get the procedure done, but thought it was better to have it done on me.
Could be true to some extent, but from what I know, this kind of cultural relativism is most rampant amongst the academics and the media savvy. That is, it is often the more educated people who are more apt to try to make excuses for cultural practices that are violent, abusive, or oppressive, in order to appear more 'tolerant' than the people they perceive to be uneducated and less cosmopolitan.
Yeah, I hate when people make excuses for it like "It's their culture", but I don't mind if they bring it into perspective. A few years ago a lot of news stories were painting Somali pirates as an extension of Al-Shabaab iirc or at least similar to them. I don't think it was brought up that Somali fisherman only became pirates because that was the only way they thought they could protect themselves against the bigger, more powerful countries that were fishing in their waters and dumping toxic wastes. Were they correct in their actions? Of course not. Is it excusable? Nope. But it isn't as if they did it because one day they thought to themselves, "to hell with it! I want to kill some white people."
Personally speaking (and I guess this might just be the liberal in me), I wish when it came to discussing other (often less privileged) cultures, countries, and people, we were more fair in how we discussed the problems. Don't tip toe around it, but also don't make it out to be like this certain culture, country, people are the worst because of this problem.
I'm bad at articulating my thoughts 
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