Cultural Exploration Project Essay

My topic for the Cultural Exploration project is the long-term consequences of female feticide and female infanticide. I choose this topic, because it’s a current issue in various countries and I want to know more about it. Ever since I’ve read about my topic in my Cultural Exploration book I have been highly interested in the topic, because there are many consequences of female feticide and infanticide. Another reason I chose this topic is that there are surprising consequences of female feticide and infanticide that makes me curious to learn about it. The book I read for the Cultural Exploration project is Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men by Mara Hvistendahl. The author Mara Hvistendahl wrote the book …show more content…
And although my topic isn’t over causes of female feticide and infanticide I would still want to learn more about the topic, because it peaks my interest. The book talks about how in other countries women are treated unfairly and they are looked upon as unequal to men, which is hard to wrap my head, because I was raised in such a different scenario and environment and I can't imagine a world with such patriarchal ways. The sex ratios in cities like Lianyungang, where the “government statisticians have found 163 boys for every 100 girls under age five” shocked me and that was something that really stuck with me (23). The idea that abortion is common in countries like China and India really makes me contemplate on how different the values and cultures are in the United States. My preconception about female feticide was that women were forced by their husbands to abort their daughters, but I have found out that in China, India, South Korea, Vietnam, and Azerbaijan “the decision to abort is most often made by women - either the pregnant woman herself or her mother-in-law, who has a vested interest in her son’s offspring”