Mar 19, 2009

Vote (Pengcheng Gao)

I would like to vote "How can we respect each other?" which is the best article in my mind and it was posted by Satomi Minegishi.
Her article offers forceful and reasonable argument. Moverover, we are able to become aware of how hard she was working on her assignment. She really read "Choosing clothes, but Not Husband" very well.
Therefore, I vote for her, even though, I have been lated for a week....

Mar 4, 2009

"Choosing clothes,but not husbands" By Amy Fu

“Choosing clothes, but not husbands.”

After I read this essay, it reminds me think of Chinese old traditional marriage and society treat women at an unfair way while the arranged marriage still exists nowadays. In Chinese old traditional marriage, most of woman had no right to choose their husbands and the rest of their lives had to live with a man they even didn’t know. The most terrible is that they even can’t devoice with their husbands, or they will be named a bad reputation.

Fortunately, society’s evaluation on marriage is getting much better than before. We have freedom and right to choose the people to get married. Moreover, devoice is not so humilities as before. In my opinion, it means society is getting better on breaking the old traditional because everyone has equal rights to choose their husbands and wife, or even devoice with them that they don’t want to live with.

However, another problem is arisen at present, that is, the pressures from work and economy make people more difficulty to build up a marriage. some of people choose the arranged marriage by their parents or marriage agent. In one word, as society and cultures’ developed, everyone has different opinions and decisions on marriage.

Mar 2, 2009

Choosing Clothes, but not husbands by alex

after red this assay then i couldn't believe it is still happening because nawadays man and woman are more educated and they are working together some jobs want to hare only woman because they are more careful and hard workers. also some woman are working for governments in United state of america and some other countires. some woman said they want to work more and married later. many married woman is woking now they are no longer just stay at home and do house work.

Religion and equality as something individual by Ramil

When I finished reading the "Choosing clothes, but not husbands" article I wasn't shocked or disappointed. Yes, all religions are different in a lot of ways: Traditions, believes, etc. Some of them we may consider crazy or inequal, but that is just an oppinion. Even if a person of particular religion has some certain believes, it doesn't mean that all the other people of the same religion as him follow these rules and traditions. For example, I am muslim but I will never make my wife cover her body or hair! Of course, I follow a lot of muslim traditions, but only the ones that I consider normal for modern world. It all depends on a person and his parents!

Some people argue that women and men are still not equal. However, as the time goes by, more women are offered good jobs that even men can't do! I agree with some blog posts that I read here that people talk about inequality only when they think they have a problem.

I would suggest you guys here to treat every person as an individuality, but not as a part of some religious group.

what do you see as a source of happiness? by Miyako Okuda

This article "Choosing clothes, but not husbands" gives us difficult issue. Because I think protecting own culture is important but I cannot really agree with this manner even if it's their culture. The custom lacks respect to female. I've red one article and I got shocked. That was about a 16 years old girl who was raped by 51 years old man and she was subject to capital punishment. Because there are three kinds of capital crimes under Islamic law, based on Sharia code; murder, drug smuggle, extramarital sex. she would be guilty if could not prove that the men raped her. But it is very hard to prove to be raped in Iranian court and men's testimony is taken much more seriously then women's so her situation was hopeless. The court didn't tell her family about this capital punishment. Her age was witten down in document of court was 22. Because the cases under 18 don't come under regulation by Sharia law but they altered her age to punish by the law. Her family even could not say good-bye to her. This is so sad. I understand a lot of culture exist in the world and those have different beliefs or values or whatever, but that is just so sad. I believe that all people should have equal opportunity and rights. However no one should judge other culture by one's standard and what you see as a source of happiness is depends on the person.

Mar 1, 2009

Changing clothes but not husband ( Laura)

The custom of early marriage and arranged marriage explained in this article moved me a lot because a part of my Family is concerned. In fact, I have a part of my family living in East France who are Jewish and very religious. I had no contact with them during a long time and I recently re keep in touch with them, being aware that I have some of my cousins I do not even know.
I was surprise to see some of my cousins married at the earl age of 18 years old and already pregnant. In my opinion, these kinds of customs can not match with the world where we live nowadays. I did not really understood why theu choose this sort of life so I began serious conversation with them.
Of course, being married at such an early age is difficult and I do not even imagine to have a life like that because I think each period of time has priorities. For the moment, mine are my studies, and Iwant take care of myself and my future, before thinking to have children. But in fact, I realized talking to my cousin that it was not her choice. Dhe did not even think about that. These are customs, values, that are recognized as the best way to live their life, and they are used to see that around them. They mightbe aware of the drawbeck of thoses values, but following their religion, they will tr to take the little advantage of the life they choose.
She told me that she understand eprfectly my opnion about arranged marriage, but she also explains me that with time, she found it convenient and that she is perfectly happy with her hsband;
To conclude, I would say that everyone has the freedom to choose the way to live their life. One prefers to take as priorities their customs coming from religion. Others prefer to compromise religion and social life. But etiher way, this is everyone's choice. If one is not happy with it, he can only be angry against him.
I am a traditionalist jewish eprson and there are lots of special days I decided not to do. I know what are the consequences of it, but I assume and this is my opinion;
Customs and values shapes a lot the personnality, however, it is very important to be in agreement with his mind and not do it by force. After that, whatever is your religion, custom, values, you can be happy, if this is your choice.

Lucy Jiao-what domaniates the guys' mind?

chosing clothes, but not husbands is talking about that Afghan women basically have zero rights, and those women who are obligated under their religious control have to do whatever they are told.
compare to the acient China, those Afghan are still suffering under their religion, or we can say, they still follow their rules. In China, ladies used to tie their feet into 3-inch long, in order not to going out; and acient Chinese women were mostly engaged before they were married.
in France, same thing happened. females were not allowed hanging out without their parents permission, and they had to wear dress everywhere they went.
it was not until Coco Chanel porpulized the pants to women's revolutionary world, women did not only changed their way of looks, but also their minds. a rebel of women equal rights spread out to the whole world started from Australia.

Man- cry in your heart, smile to your family(Andy Su)

As a man, we have a lot of basic rules, too.
When I was a child, my elders always told me man does not easily tear. As a man, blood may flow, but we do not easily tear.
As a man, we have the responsibility to bring happiness to the people who care about me and the people who I am cared about.
As a man, we have been told that owe must reported. In the right or wrong question we can not lost ourself.
God is fair to each person, even man and woman. It is precisely because we have different sex, so we also have different rules. No one can say which rules are more difficult, because rules can not be compared.

We are not totally equal NOW(Jiran Qiu)

From the article i knew people were unequal because of gender in some countries. I saw a lot of movies about family life reflected the relationship between men and women is unequal. The men made money for families and the women stayed home, do some houseword and had much lower social status than men. And, men had right to choose their wives but women can't decide who to marry. But now the situation gets much better. Women can work as well as men and have good social identities even better then men. However, in China, a fraction of people are more willing to have a son. Their ideas are probably staying 25 years ago. They see sons as the best present given by god and feel ashamed when having daughter. I have to say that a kind of ugly social phenomenon nowadays.

i vote "How can we judge whether it is gender discrimination??? (By Lei Gao)" (Jiran Qiu)

I vote this not just because this is the longest one, it also focuses on a specific point: men and women are created equally. The sentenses are also easy to understand that make me interested in it.

something about gender (Xu Yuan)

After reading "choose clothes, not husbands", I get some ideas about gendar. In accient time, women can not go to work outside of family. All they have to do is doing house work. They have to take care of babies, clean the house, cook for family, weave clothing and so on. Thier husbands do some heavy works. They should do farming or earn money outside.
There are some reasons for differences between women and men's works. Firstly, men are better for some works because they are stronger. Secondly, woman are not allowed to work outside for customs. Also, house works are really heaviy at that time, women can not find enough time to work outside.
Nowadys, more and more women find jobs in the society. It is a tendency with the devolopment in the society. Modern technology provides people more free time to do what they like to do. Women get equal rights as men. They are more independent than ever. In the past, they belong to thier husbands. Today, they are individuals.

Gender discrimination by Mengmeng Chen

Gender discrimination is a sensitive issue and it does exist in every area especially the work place. I think there is no point to talk about those questions like who has higher social status, male or female? Why do we have to distinguish it so clear?
First of all, I think female and male is supposed to be absolutely equal. In many cases, this should be a kind of balance in this world. People could not be stopped chasing their dreams because of this gender problem. Everyone has his/her own choice and right even though it is really hard to have a real equality in this world. If right is an unavoidable issue, i think the foremost right that we don't have is to comment other's capability and judge others. Female and male can learn different things from each other and i think most of them are going to be an optimistic and positive way. Therefore, I hope there could be a real sexual equality one day, and i mean hope.

we are the one by chen jin

After I writing this essay, I think love is the thing that I must choose by myself, sometimes even our parents cannot choose for us. We cannot choose our parents, we cannot choose our color, but I think we can choose our love and fight for it. This is unfair that some of the people only can choose who they parents love to.
Other idea is why only girl cannot choose who they want to be with. I think we are equal, no matter who we are. If girls cannot why would we can, all the life begin from the mother, girl is great. We are all part of the society, I didn’t see any different between me and girls. I think only difference is we have different opinion when we face the life.

We are not equal because of genders(Chongran Hao)

We are not equal because of genders. That's what I know when I read "Choosing clothes but not genders". That's a really interesting title. In writer's opinion, women cannot choose husbands in her country. That's sex discrimination.

In old ancientry of China, the women could not choose husband as well. And the state of women was really low in the history of China. That's why I chose this topic in essay#2. I think the genders really make us different and not equal.

We Can Change (Shuhua Lu)

we can change

After reading two articles, I thought about many things.

In last week’s blogpost, I talked about the gender equality, which should be this week’s topic. I criticize that” it is absolutely a stupid, bossy and arbitrary opinion, which should not exist in modern society.” Also, I believe that Individuals are born equal and everyone’s natural rights such as, receiving education and pursuing love, will not change because of nationality, race or gender.

Dila comments” this is the way they learn, their father did same things to his mother and he learned like that… So everything is not easy to change or judge” I agree with a part of them. Children will copy their parents’ action and think about the things like their parents because of closeness in both physical and emotional. It is natural and genetics. However, I can hardly accede to the opinion that everything is not easy change or judge. I think that people always do the thing which they think is right because of different education and culture background. I am not judge the people who is under that kind of constitution, but I make comments to this kind of constitution, which I barely agree.

I believe that everything can be changed, especially the wrong things. For example, after the War of Independence, the slavery is legal in south of America. The majority of people supported that because it could give them a lot of cheap labor forces, which eventually led to the high profit. That is wrong and hard to change. Nevertheless, the slavery was abolished through the Civil War. The war cost enormous but the benefit is liberty. That’s worth.

Therefore, I think that everything can be changed even though it cost a lot. We have to change it if we think it should.

Hard Choice and Easy Choice (GuangDi Zhu)

When I read "Choosing Clothes, but not Husbands" I think it is too stronger. First we can choose our clothes and our lover, but there different kind of choosing. We can choose clothes again and again, and we can throw away the clothes which were choosing by our self. We just have only once to choose our lover.

The problem which the article was discussed about, I think it was not just happened on the female, it also happened on man. Parents also help their son to choose his wife in China. The pivot of this problem is we can have a choice for everything, if someone wants to stop you that mean it is just a hard choice.

Against the Racial discrimination (Jianle Pan)

This apple seems people's heart, however nails stand for racial discrimination. Don't treat people like that or people's heart and characters will be sharp just like that. We don't allow racial discrimination happen in our world.



















I see this picture online and read the paragraphy.

"Racial discrimination is against the law. It is a criminal offence to discriminate against people because of their race, colour or ethnic nationality. It is also illegal to incite racial hatred. This includes the publication and distribution of written or visual material."

I think most people agree with this. You see, white and black hand together looks so nice and harmonious. As this girl showed:We are love each other but does not discriminate.

Vote ( Jianle Pan )

I vote “The archivement of desire” by Satomi Minegishi is the best article in the blog.
Because she not only written her feelings about family education, and also written her own experiences on family education. It seems more real feelings from her that convince reader her opinion were true.

How can we judge whether it is gender discrimination??? (By Lei Gao)

Male and Female are created equally. With the world's developing, nowadays the world is equal for both men and women. Maybe some one disagree with me and say there are still gender discriminations in some regions or countries in the world. However, have you considered the true ideas in people's hearts? In my opinion, the world now is mostly equal for women and men.

Firstly, i want to ask a question that how do you judge that women were discriminated in mideast countries. For me, i was influenced by some photos, texts, movies. Those things are personal ideas created by parts of people. Through these, we may be tricked, and then awfully believe that mideastern women dressing hijab are anguished. Absolutely, in summer the hijab dressing is not comfortable for every one. However, they respect their beliefs and religions through this way. This may be a kind of satisfactions for them. In another point of view, maybe they can win respectation from others. Therefore, under a specific cultural background, some deviant customs of males or females cannot be related to gender discrimination.

Considering the different distributions of males and females, some one may judge that the world is not equal for women to look for a suitable job. However, some investigations have proved that women are really important and have entered the mainstream nowadays. For instance, in American government, the speaker of House of Representatives is female. The value of this position is considered important as the President's. More than this, many women have succeed in Business.

Absolutely, gender discrimination also exists in the world, but opposed to the major tendency of the world. By reading the article "Chossing clothes, but not husbands", i feel pity that some women may not have choices to choose husbands, or should be responsible for family honor. However, maybe that is just a life style.

How can i judge whther it is gender discrimination? That is not important. People are too sensitive toward this issue.

how can we respect each other?(Satomi Minegishi)

After reading this article-“Choosing Clothes, but Not Husband,” I was surprised how ridiculous these ideas are. This article shows the audience the discrimination of culture and gender. This male chauvinism in this essay gives me uncomfortable feelings. Half of Afghanistan women cannot go to high schools and acquire same education as men can. The reason is because women are thought to be second to men in the society. I wonder why women are not treated fairly and why women suffer from others because of their gender. As the audience can see, there is a saying of gender discrimination -“The food your husband feeds you does not come for free.” Oh, such a ridiculous idea.
On February 13, I read an article in New York Times, “Starting at Home, Iran’s Women Fight for Right.” It picked up an example of male chauvinism in the world. According to this article, Razieh Qassemi, a victim of gender discrimination, was beaten repeatedly by her husband and his father for divorce in hope. Her husband is addicted to methamphetamine and has threatened to marry another woman to “torture” her. This case is not uncommon in Iran. However, rather than endure the abuse, Ms. Qassemi took a step that might never have occurred to an earlier generation of Iranian women: she filed for divorce. (“Starting at Home, Iran’s Women Fight for Right”, New York Times February 13)
I was impressed with the news, even though women from lower classes and religious are among those moving up and down the stairs to fight for divorces and custody of their children. Recently Iran’s women determine to gain more control over their lives with increasing educational levels and the information revolution. Although, I am not fanatical about feminism or gender discrimination, I strongly believe that men and women must be treated fairly. In other words, people have to respect each other regardless their genders all over the world.

Gender discrimination problem in korea (Donghyuk Na)

I think that Korea has many problems due to its speed development during short time, but the worst social problem in Korea is gender discrimination.

When I was in Korea during a last summer vacation, I saw a middle aged man and a woman with her daughter were arguing. Though just simple arguing, the old man keep using the word "woman" during his speaking. For example, “Does any woman mean to defy man?? If woman is bad-tempered, she gives birth to a daughter. That was a right saying." and so on.
Although the woman’s giving birth to a daughter has nothing to do with the reason to their argument, he was making her angry by saying so.

Besides, there are so many similar examples. When female driver goes slowly, or makes accident, usually man is speaking like this way, “You should cook in your home, instead of driving a car in the road." This situation has been seen easily in Korea. Furthermore, in Korea, there is a word such as "Women’s high school", but no word like "Men’s High school".
Most Korean people usually speak the word "man" prior to the word "woman". This is a sharp contrast the western rhetoric such as "Ladies, Gentleman"

The most basic solution is that people change their mind.
Of course, it is very difficult. Therefore, to accomplish it, it should be done in step-by-step manner.
First, in individual base, "Men shouldn't ignore women, and women shouldn’t depend on Men. Second, companies should throw away such a stereotypic mind that men is superior to women, giving equal opportunity to any gender. Third, Government should provide the same education regardless of gender. If these solutions are carried out very well, I'm sure that Korea will be the most gender-equality country.