Dear Rhian,

When you have three cultures: A, B and C, where A is more refined than B and B is more refined than C, I see no valid reason why followers of culture A should compromise and lower themselves to the level of B, how less so identify with B, just because people in general are afraid of C, not even if that fear is justified, not even if followers of B fail to differentiate between A and C.

Then of course, there are those who were born in culture A but either drifted away or did not receive adequate cultural education to begin with. It is sad to see them settling for B.