Your culture couldn't be violence

Social chains and culture: two distant worlds, yet they’re intertwined together in some unfathomable way in the mindsets of so many people. Perhaps that’s why we find a lot of “social norms” that make zero sense —in fact, they could be rather inhumane—, and these social norms have dedicated followers who are restlessly rooting for the existence of such false beliefs.
The old cliché jumping from these people is always “how dare you destruct our society? Our identity? It’s who we are,”
It’s not who we are.
If your identity is a product of prejudice, oppression, ignorance, abuse, hate, violence, classism, misogyny… hell, the list is infinite. If that’s your identity, then it’s nothing to be proud of, it’s nothing to hold onto. All what you could do is throw your “identity” into the nearest trash bin and clean your perspective of the world because it’s so smeared. You can’t hide underneath a cloak sewn from ancient oppressive threads just because you think it’s heritage. The world is pushing hard and trying to move on, yet we are still fighting for the simplest basics of human rights, as if your “sacred heritage” is a guidebook to screwing up humanity.
Culture isn’t a synonym for the toxic standards flowing in so many people’s veins, and it shouldn’t be used as an excuse to normalize the crimes sugar-coated by society.
The ongoing fight is against the social chains murdering our souls, not against your history or culture or identity. Correcting your hereditary lifestyle isn’t offending you in any way —it’s actually making you a better person, for the sake of yourself and for the sake of the world.