in their culture to stare, canuck.

I do think it is partly culture and exacerbated by class, lack of education and general lack of respect for women. I liken it to the Mad Men era. Men think they rule the world and women are just here to pretty it up and be playthings for us. The thing is that much of the world has progressed beyond the misogynist attitudes of the 1960s. But some have not.