Suranis wrote: ↑Sat Mar 13, 2021 2:38 pm
Going back to the FGM discussion, sorry, but it's not those ignorant Darkies in Africa and the Middle east. Its a non zero number in the greatest country in the world too. A Study done during the Obama years concluded around half a million grils in the USA were either at risk of it or had had it done, and it runs the gambit from the mildest to the worst.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_ge ... ted_States
In 2016, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a report compiled with data from 2010-2013. The CDC report estimated 513,000 girls and women in the United States were either victims of FGM or at risk of FGM, with ⅓ under age 18.[19] The marked increase in the number of girls and women at risk of FGM in the United States was attributed to an increase in the total number of immigrants from countries where FGM is most common, not an increase in the frequency of the practice.[20] Of the women at risk, 60% are from 8 states: California, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Texas, Virginia, and Washington. Additionally, 40% of those reported are concentrated in 5 major metropolitan areas: New York, Washington, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Los Angeles, and Seattle. 55% of the women are from Egypt, Somalia, or Ethiopia.[2] These three "sending countries" have a high prevalence of FGM, as well as high numbers of U.S. immigrants.[2] The report used information from US census reports and the American Community Survey (2012) to identify the number of immigrants from countries where FGM is most prevalent.[2]
The 500,000 number includes women who were victims in their own countries but are now in the US. The wiki article also says that the practice is most prevalent in immigrant communities. FGM is a cultural practice, and is overwhelmingly brought to the US by other cultures. To remove the risk of a girl falling victim to it, you would have to remove her from her culture, regardless of where she lived.