You can't change Afghan culture, if they treat their women that way, then its their way.You can't change American culture either. That's why we still have black slaves picking cotton in Mississippi. And women will never have the right to vote here.> It's not the traditional Afgan culture... it was the Taliban culture Not quite true. It's part of the indiginous culture from where the Taliban originated, in the south of Afghanistan. In much of Afghanistan, women don't have many options. The Taliban amplified it and institutionalized it as government policy, rather than just a cultural norm, and applied it to everyone in Afghanistan. Afghanistan has rednecks and more progressive people, just as we do.