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I agree that footbinding is worse than circumcision, I said it myself!
But they both belong in the category of 'really weird things that you'd surely not expect to be cultural practices'! China thought for some reason that small feet are better, that they were high-status. Then it got locked in as a cultural trait, this is what high-status women do and how you get married. As for 'extremely disgusting pseudo-medical operations carried out by parents thinking they're doing good for their child', we can hardly claim the high ground. I won't post images or testimony of gorey botched gender transition surgeries because I don't really want to see or think about the things that are happening right now, in our countries, today.
People are prepared to die for status! They'll cut off their balls for status, flagellate themselves for status, people will do anything for status.
Fundamentally both the West and the Sinosphere + Japan are great civilizations. We basically have the same problems in terms of diminishing fertility, technological anomie and so on. It's a symmetrical situation.
Edit: Chinese and North East Asians are categorized as 'white adjacent' for the purpose of getting discriminated against in our education system. There's a certain essence of whiteness that they have possessed by few others.
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