I'm not inheritly against different cultures wanting to maintain their values, but I definitely wish people could freely enter and leave their culture.
In the case of Qatar, I can imagine not many women would be interested in staying if it was super easy to switch cultures, but at the same time cultures around the world are beautiful, even if different, and it's a shame that they can't be preserved.
Realistically there are two reasons you're going there, one is because you have a business obligation or potential contract which incentivizes going there, and two is because you got conned by tourist bait ads that try to hush hush all this stuff because it drives people away.
I can't remember where my parents visited in Spain but it has an Easter celebration where some of the locals wear capirotes and carry torches. They bought a fridge magnet from there of a little guy in the outfit with a torch which they've had to explain to a few people over the years.
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