What is likely to be the experience of foreign social workers trying to stop a practice like female genital cutting (FGC) in an African country where this practice is the norm among some cultures?

A. The culture will fight to maintain its traditions; even the women of the culture will often oppose any change in the way things are done.
B. The culture will welcome the new medical knowledge and seek other ways to ritually initiate women.
C. The culture will seek to become more like the United States because they want to please their visitors.
D. Members of the culture will pretend to be accepting of the information while not actually changing anything.


Answer: A

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