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I'm not downplaying anything.
Yes, you are. You're comparing their insane policies to the comparatively okay ones in the rest of the world.
No, I'm pointing out that they are analogous to the rest of the world, and that none of it is okay, comparatively or otherwise.
Cultural ignorance is different to being forcibly isolated from the modern world by a dictatorship.
I'm not talking about cultural ignorance, either.