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I want to comment on the suggestion that we should not fight against the culture.

Every external intervention re-shaping behaviors, artifacts, norms or roles will influence a culture in some way. Therefore we should be extremely sensitive to the complexity of this issue.

I was working for a year in southern Kenya, in a village where everyone (including us) was living in the mud-houses. Traditional mud houses have a fireplace in the middle which is used for cooking and heating…