Dignity or honour? Those two words seem to describe a binary divide in the sorts of human cultures that exist in our world. To a rough first approximation, dignity cultures value people for themselves while honour cultures do not. They are instead driven by an overriding concern for reputation and a sense of duty to retaliate when it is damaged, sometimes even to the point of killing a daughter orsister who is seen to have brought the family into disrepute.
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