No, the US can't go all around the world fixing all inequities, even when they border on slavery and imprisoment of all females in a country. However, does that mean we shouldn't try to fix this any where that we can?
This is not an issue of WMDs or madmen. This is a moral question whether you are faith driven or secular. Every women in a country as a 1000th rate citizen if a citizen at all. Say what you want about the rest of it but, if this can be stopped isn't it a worthy cause?
2007-10-04 10:08:09 · 12 answers · asked by karate 3 in Social Science ➔ Gender Studies
37 year old college student: You have focused on the most harmless (if you can call it that) of all the things I mentioned and ignored the rest. Can a culture be imoral, corrupt, evil? If yes, then we have an obligation to stop it wherre we can. It isn't a matter of what business is it of ours. It is the business of all humanity.
2007-10-04 10:23:20 · update #1
RoVale: Oh, so now rape is just another cultural value. Forced female castration is just another cultural value. Virtual imprisoment is just another cultural value. Pleassse! THen anything can be justified in the name of a persons culture, RIGHT!
2007-10-04 10:29:07 · update #2
yes these things are wrong in our society but things like arranged marriages aren't percieved as wrong in some societies and have existed for hundreds of years. Who are we to say they are wrong, and they should do things the way the US does them?
2007-10-04 10:11:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
I know it sounds horrible but let other people fix their own problems. It causes a lot more trouble when other people, who are unfamiliar with the culture, religious beliefs, and the language try to interfere and impose on that society how they think other people should live their lives. Like it or not, this is and always be a very diverse world and I much prefer it that way. It's better than conformity where everybody looks alike, thinks alike, acts alike, and has the same religious beliefs.
2007-10-04 10:25:13 · answer #2 · answered by RoVale 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I Also agree that people shouldn't be brutalized on such a large scale, and something should be done about it. but what?
but that doesn't include arranged marriages, burkas, and the like, imo. those may not be tasteful to those of us in the west, but they aren't really brutalizing anyone. we should leave that stuff alone, allow the culture to deal with those as it sees fit. (besides, if the women didn't have to deal with FGM, honor killings, and rape, then they may not be so scared to speak up about smaller things they don't like & instigate change themselves.................
2007-10-04 20:05:28 · answer #3 · answered by Jonathan 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thousands of men have been killed I saw that on a special leaving over 50,000 widows and counting in Iraq alone.
In areas where their is fighting the men are the most likely to die in battle. Leaving so far a large surplus of women.
The few men that are left are unable to support all the single women begging in the streets. Where they were denied education 4 out of 5 can't read or write. Unable to support themselves they have now set up schools and the ones who can read are teaching those who can't. Women are working in the fields. Herding sheep and shearing the sheep and making and selling the wool. Women are starting to take over. So I do believe that things will change over there and in other places where it says the women are rapidly out numbering the men. Everytime in the past that this has happened the society seems to stop war and settle down and the women work to survive. Then the next generation men come back and it starts all over. One lady said, "as long as there is a man left they will fight with each other."
Sad but true.
2007-10-04 10:15:36 · answer #4 · answered by Ruth 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
i agree that people shouldn't be brutalized on such a large scale, and something should be done about it. (but what?!?)
but that doesn't include arranged marriages, burkas, and the like, imo. those may not be tasteful to those of us in the west, but they aren't really brutalizing anyone. we should leave that stuff alone, allow the culture to deal with those as it sees fit. (besides, if the women didn't have to deal with FGM, honor killings, and rape, then they may not be so scared to speak up about smaller things they don't like & instigate change themselves.)
2007-10-04 10:19:11 · answer #5 · answered by Ember Halo 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Devoted & dedicated people must rally TOGETHER to make changes to such a mass consiousness.
The Native Americans rallied & look what they are accomplishing...freedoms & prosperities that no thought possible.
Slavery was ended by those of We the People who thought this a horrible wrong...and they won!
Women rally to undo the inequities of position & lack of freedoms...a slow process, but diligence is paying off.
Children have even formed protective groups (ex.:the Angels) to overcome unrighteous acts in their neighborhoods & in their families.
We have many rights movements in progress to free themselves of their chains...And this is America in process! No other country helped us attain our goals or fight against the powers of ourselves...WE did it...we made the decision to change something, and we did it.
If people want change, then THEY are the ones to create it. We are all, the entire world, reaping the consequences of the lack of balance instilled by man-powers of yore & continued by those of today.
The price of such change??? Enormous--it's human life! Many die for newness to be born...a price some are not so willing to pay...sooo, to each their own...in their own time.
2007-10-04 10:40:12 · answer #6 · answered by MsET 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Welcome to multiculturalism. The left has signed on to this theory, and have to accept such primitive rites (and the brutality of dog fighting in black American culture) or be counted as hypocrites and followers of a false philosophy.
2007-10-04 10:12:11 · answer #7 · answered by A Plague on your houses 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
and what are you going to do? go in, depose the government, take some photos of local nationals being dragged around on a dogchain, shoot up a few wedding-receptions?
how is that going to help?
2007-10-04 11:58:35 · answer #8 · answered by synopsis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is the concensus; catches the eye of the media and the media always catches what pleases the people, media always sells to please people; people are its life line. Yet, we do not know, as of yet, what good and, or bad goes on behind closed doors.
2007-10-04 14:27:02 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Of course its a worthy cause ... not because its women, but because it is PEOPLE being treated this way.
The fact that they have segregated out a chunk of humanity by gender (vs. race, creed, etc) is pretty irrelevent to the direness of it.
2007-10-04 10:12:15 · answer #10 · answered by Elana 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋