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Honor killings
It wasn't so long ago in this country that a black man could find himself hanged for insulting a white woman's honor by looking at her with a look somebody else percieved as lust.
Clearly such injust practices have no place in the modern developed world. However, even while we righly condemn them when they occur in traditional cultures, we should remember that historically speaking, we aren't so far away from that sort of behavior ourselves.