Two mini tiny almost unimportant points.
What makes you think she was at all ignorant of the local culture?
How the fuck does anything she did or anything she may be unaware of make her deserve a flogging? Anything. Just one little thing that might possibly deserve that. Perhaps she pinched a lollipop in 1968?
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 28 Nov 2007, 16:10, archived)