Are norms the same as ethics

Subject: Are norms the same as ethics.

Morality and ethics loosely distinguish between good and bad, right and wrong, people think of morality as personal  or normative, and ethics the standard of good and bad distinguished by a certain community.
What is normal. Is our normality the same for all cultures or are there different norms for the Indian Hindu or the Pakistani Muslim do the stories coming out of China or Russia reveal a different norm to the one we supposedly hold precious here in this country. Do the people who decry what others do in the form of tradition or in the form of some sort or religious ritual have some sort of God given right to proclaim their abhorrence of other people's norms.
Normality when it comes to human actions or interaction, are they a fundamental, like the laws of mechanics or does it rely on the ethical process, a process of logic to finding a route through this short life without hurting others. 
The Greeks were famous for their ethical and moral debates but they borrowed much from earlier civilisation which had evolved in the Valley of the Euphrates and the early founding of the Indian seat of learning in the Indus Valley, and of course the Chinese who in their hidden kingdom were developing the philosophical and creative skills which only emerged in Europe 2000 years later. We the pronouncers of all which is right and proper today we're running around as primitives whilst these great culture flourished. Areas such as Egypt and Syria in fact the whole of the Middle East which today we decry for their apparent lack of humanity towards each other were the garden in which ethics and moral judgement were born and later debated by the Greeks to be passed on through the Romans to the western extremities including ourself. 
Christian teaching of the Commandments which came from the older Jewish religion holds a different connotation when practiced by a Jewish orthodox believer who seem content to go along with the Israeli concepts of peace and good will whilst the Christian from Minnesota is happy to pronounce for Donald.
'The lay of the land' seems to be the prevailing view which has as much pragmatism as ethical judgment and at our peril we pronounce against others.   
Comedy from the 1960s and 70s has these days to have a warning attached so as not to hurt the sensibilities of a more modern audience and yet the swearing which the modern comic uses to embellish his or her act are embarrassing to a 60s 70s audience.
The times are a changing and with it we perforce must change. If I lived in India I would have to accept the Caste system, if I lived in China I would have to get used to the authoritarian edict, and if living in South Africa during the days of Apartheid the laws had to be obeyed, even though your interpersonal relationships could soften the excesses. The undeniable fact is we sublimate our reasoning on the alter of our survival. It's a numbers game, we lose sight of those other norms which we held in the comfort of an overseas pampered environment and start to see the evil spirit under the bed (the tokoloshe) which given the chance will bite us all.
Given my submission that there is no such thing as an ethical or moral norm and that these pinch points in philosophical progress are always in flux as humankind adjusts to its new surroundings, then the so called philosophical,  ethical and moral norm which appears to flow naturally usually pampering  the the majority, is often seen differently to that which is taken up by the minority as it struggles to make its case. 
In the name of democracy, the people have spoken, overwhelmingly for another 5 years of Tory rule, which if history is anything to go by, the self same people have chosen willingly to bang their heads against a wall. But then the norm, in all its phases is nothing much more than what others tell us is normal, and the telling comes in many shapes and sizes, creeds and ideology's.
If it's a woman stoned to death for committing blasphemy or a man tied down onto the electric chair or incarcerated in Guantanamo Bay, these barbarous acts are seen to be outside the normal but seen from the ideology of patriarchal Sharia law or a modern Nations concept of self preservation, other people's norms can be argued away.
He who throws the first stone, beware of the consequences.