Sunday, March 27, 2011
Internment of Japanese Americans
This week in class we had to read about a Japanese family who was sent to camps because of their ethnicity. Their were generations who were well established in America and were sent to camps and were mistreated because of their beliefs and their thoughts, and more importantly because of their looks. The family had not committed any crime but were sent to these camps because they were suspected of plotting to bring terror to the United States after the attack on Pearl Harbor. This kind of treatment and segregation because of the way one looks was completely wrong by United State's part. I understand that when as a nation we are at war, their maybe this suspicion looking at one's neighbor and wondering if they think wrong and would harm this nation. People have to see how bad that it. I am a Sikh. My religion says that I should keep a identity without cutting my hair and wearing a turban. After the attacks on the World Trade Centers and the Pentagon, a lot of people thought of me as a muslim extremist. Just because of my identity, people looked at me wrong and people I considered friends, ended up judging me. I was in 5th grade when it happened, and I remember how we got news of what happened, and after they found out who was behind it all, people judged me along with many other Sikhs just because of our identity, and because they just couldn't take it, they would cut their hair and try to loose and disconnect themselves with their roots and religion. Sikhism is a worldwide religion and not restricted to one place. I never knew why people didn't know the difference, between us and them. Our beliefs were different and how we lived was a beyond different. I understand how they might have felt. With such discrimination, they had to go to camps and face segregation from the rest of the world and some had to stay away from their families. It just hurts that such a strong nation still has these problems, but they are getting better and people are being smarter to learn of one another and not be arrogant, or seeming arrogant because the lack of knowledge.
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Gender Inequality
Gender Inequality is a very important issue when we think about how societies work and how they view one another. When sociologists look at gender differences, they look to see how society behave with male and female, individually and as a whole which allows them to see how people work together. This is a very deep and important topic that often causes many conflicts in society. We see indifferences all around the world, from many different time periods, and sadly even today.
In the text, Introduction to Sociology, their was a section about how families looked at the birth of a child in the family. How the reactions of family members differed because of the gender of their new born. Over time, it seems that people do stop to directly show that their is no difference between girls and boys, but they still indirectly differentiate a lot. Its very unfortunate to see that their were people, and yet still till this day people who believe that the birth of a girl is bad. Girls don't get treated as well as boys do. As mentioned in the book, boys get more attention. The inequality does exist. Just recently, when the 2009 Presidential elections were taking place, many people, even women were doubting whether or not a lady would be suited for the job and responsibility of a president. It is very difficult to see that women, knowing the prejudice and the downward look from society on women, still will criticize another women to doing something good and something that can benefit women to higher and more opportunities of work in fields that were man dominated.
It is sad to see women creating inequalities between each other and not being supportive for the tasks they have never been able to uphold before, but what is more hurting is when parents show such negative inequality they have for one child over the other because of gender. Gender inequality has been a practice by parents of those who reside in countries that have/ had not seen the positive in raising children of the gender. For example, the Romans. They were told to kill their children if they were girls or small and weak babies. Those inequalities were set because Rome was a dominant empire and wanted to hold their strength and their empire, but today, children and considered burdens. My parents are from Punjab, India and they as well as other family have told me countless about how life for girls is considered to be very difficult. Raising and giving birth to a girl is considered an expense and headache, because parents have to look after her well being and have to provide for her when she won't be giving anything back to the family, because eventually when she turns of age, she is set to get married. Boys on the other hand are said to be assets because they will provide for the family once the parents are old and look after the house and business after them. This ill thinking and discrimination against children isn't setup by parents themselves, but society.
Society shows the negative affect of having one gender child over the other. It is utmost unbearable to have to listen to my parents and family talking about things that girls are considered to be an expense. I have sisters, and they mean a lot to me, and it is a shame that their are families out their that give no respect to their children just because they are a girl. Children aren't a business, but society makes it seem like rearing a child and caring for them and having to withstand them is a job which bears fruits of pain.
Society has many faults, but the fault and the mistake that many arrogant and ignorant people don't seem to see is that problems like gender inequality are nothing more then waste of time. Everyone is created equal and society and no one has the ability or right to put barriers on one's potential because of how someone is, and especially not because of gender. Unfortunately, this happens, because people won't speak up for what is wrong, and go with what society says. People are so concerned with what others will think of them, that they forget to live life. Life is one's own, and not to be shared with society and people who wouldn't care about happens to you in times of need. People who stranded their children for death, because of societies' unwritten rule that one gender is better than the other, miss out on so much happiness that they had. These situations and problems aren't meant to be protested against by riots and violence, but to be dealt by indirectly going against the rules of society and living for one's life. Its your life, you have say, not society of what happens and doesn't. This rebellion against societies unjust does seem to be difficult, but lives are saved anf their is more happiness that goes around instead of hate and violence.
In the text, Introduction to Sociology, their was a section about how families looked at the birth of a child in the family. How the reactions of family members differed because of the gender of their new born. Over time, it seems that people do stop to directly show that their is no difference between girls and boys, but they still indirectly differentiate a lot. Its very unfortunate to see that their were people, and yet still till this day people who believe that the birth of a girl is bad. Girls don't get treated as well as boys do. As mentioned in the book, boys get more attention. The inequality does exist. Just recently, when the 2009 Presidential elections were taking place, many people, even women were doubting whether or not a lady would be suited for the job and responsibility of a president. It is very difficult to see that women, knowing the prejudice and the downward look from society on women, still will criticize another women to doing something good and something that can benefit women to higher and more opportunities of work in fields that were man dominated.
It is sad to see women creating inequalities between each other and not being supportive for the tasks they have never been able to uphold before, but what is more hurting is when parents show such negative inequality they have for one child over the other because of gender. Gender inequality has been a practice by parents of those who reside in countries that have/ had not seen the positive in raising children of the gender. For example, the Romans. They were told to kill their children if they were girls or small and weak babies. Those inequalities were set because Rome was a dominant empire and wanted to hold their strength and their empire, but today, children and considered burdens. My parents are from Punjab, India and they as well as other family have told me countless about how life for girls is considered to be very difficult. Raising and giving birth to a girl is considered an expense and headache, because parents have to look after her well being and have to provide for her when she won't be giving anything back to the family, because eventually when she turns of age, she is set to get married. Boys on the other hand are said to be assets because they will provide for the family once the parents are old and look after the house and business after them. This ill thinking and discrimination against children isn't setup by parents themselves, but society.
Society shows the negative affect of having one gender child over the other. It is utmost unbearable to have to listen to my parents and family talking about things that girls are considered to be an expense. I have sisters, and they mean a lot to me, and it is a shame that their are families out their that give no respect to their children just because they are a girl. Children aren't a business, but society makes it seem like rearing a child and caring for them and having to withstand them is a job which bears fruits of pain.
Society has many faults, but the fault and the mistake that many arrogant and ignorant people don't seem to see is that problems like gender inequality are nothing more then waste of time. Everyone is created equal and society and no one has the ability or right to put barriers on one's potential because of how someone is, and especially not because of gender. Unfortunately, this happens, because people won't speak up for what is wrong, and go with what society says. People are so concerned with what others will think of them, that they forget to live life. Life is one's own, and not to be shared with society and people who wouldn't care about happens to you in times of need. People who stranded their children for death, because of societies' unwritten rule that one gender is better than the other, miss out on so much happiness that they had. These situations and problems aren't meant to be protested against by riots and violence, but to be dealt by indirectly going against the rules of society and living for one's life. Its your life, you have say, not society of what happens and doesn't. This rebellion against societies unjust does seem to be difficult, but lives are saved anf their is more happiness that goes around instead of hate and violence.
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Why We Should Care About Global Inequality
The United States being a world power and a country with great wealth. We should care about global inequality because it affects us as well. A county generates its wealth by exporting. You always want to export more than you import. If the economy in other countries is good as well, then they will be able to buy our goods and help the global economy to increase and to better itself from hardships such as recessions and depressions. Countries who do not have the stability as we do can use help to find what they are good at manufacturing and help them industrialize.
Their are countries where people have the ability to do very well. They have resources to do really well, but they lack the ability to do well because they are unorganized. The United States should help jump these potential economies for betterment and work to help them strive. We all can benefit from helping those countries. We can provide them with tools, education, knowledge and leadership. We can help to make stronger governments which in return help the people to better and produce more to raise and country's GNP.
A county such as the United States has the ability to help those who need it to support themselves and get on their own feet and have their nation's people strive and be successful. The global economy relies that all who seek to trade and do business, work with other countries to set up good communication which allows them to work better and see where one could need help. United Sates may still be in debit, but we still are working and are more successful than other countries, and helping other countries can help us export more to them, and in the long run get out of debt.
Their are countries where people have the ability to do very well. They have resources to do really well, but they lack the ability to do well because they are unorganized. The United States should help jump these potential economies for betterment and work to help them strive. We all can benefit from helping those countries. We can provide them with tools, education, knowledge and leadership. We can help to make stronger governments which in return help the people to better and produce more to raise and country's GNP.
A county such as the United States has the ability to help those who need it to support themselves and get on their own feet and have their nation's people strive and be successful. The global economy relies that all who seek to trade and do business, work with other countries to set up good communication which allows them to work better and see where one could need help. United Sates may still be in debit, but we still are working and are more successful than other countries, and helping other countries can help us export more to them, and in the long run get out of debt.
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