This "a different culture" thing always bothers me. I mean, it kind of negates our common humanity?

I had a Spanish student staying with me last year - a lovely kid who keeps hens in his family's back garden. He was telling me how he enjoyed bullfighting, and explaining that it was part of Spanish culture.

When he was going home he wanted to bring some eggs to hatch out, and I was nervous - "you won't use the hatchlings for cockfighting when they're grown?" I said.

He was utterly shocked. "No!!" he said. "Cockfighting is illegal in Spain. It's cruel!"