Rooskey alternative needed - Be proactive and roll out red carpet

Societies differentiate themselves through cultural practices. Many insist on long-established protocols that others find amusing, incomprehensible, reckless, or even barbaric. Some traditions are driven by religious beliefs; the origin of others are lost in time.
The West, especially the liberal West that imagines itself the product of the Enlightenment, abhors the idea of female genital mutilation, yet it is widely practised elsewhere.