Oct 18, 2009

Fighting your own rights when necessary

The title“ Choosing Clothes, but Not Husbands”is an interested metaphor in my opinions. In some situations, people show their characters or what they want to present in other people's eyes through the clothes the wear. On the other hand, through choosing clothes also can be a vehicle to express your sense of self more openly. However, choosing husbands is more concern with one's personality or the match can be suitable or not. It is supposedly more important than choosing clothes. I do believe choosing husbands is more seriously for women to think over and over and stand for our own right to choose. Still, in this article shows the Afghans women in the United State might be able to have a chance being educated by the society, there is no way for those Afghans women to avoid lapsing into the conflict between the traditional conventions which forced by their beloved family and the advanced values that they learn from their higher education.
As we know, we all been challenging by the coming future to make our lives better than in generations past. The Afghans' hardness and deep-rooted code, like to be married in such young age and can't choose husbands by their own, usually are no longer to use in this society, especially in the United States this century. This article lead me to think more about sometimes we might need to build on an inheritance from the past that we need to transform. It's hard for us to make such a change because we all know family life provide the sense of continuity and containment, which helping to anchor a sense of meaning in life in some way. But in my point of view, at least to fight your own right if necessary and don't be afraid to leave the past behind in order to refine it in a new and more meaningful form for your life.

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