Hunk in grave, You and I have the same opinion on leaving or making better those cultural practices that are impractical. But that does not mean that one should not show his/her disagreement ( or in your words, 'curse') towards it. And yes we should not blindly follow practices from other culture like you said, nor should we from our own. But accepting those that are meaningful to life, in my opinion should be followed no matter in which culture they belong. After all, we first are human beings, and then only people differentiated by groups or in this duscussion, by culture.