Born and raise in the world of technology, I sure can say a lot has changed.
We went from big screen computers, which were so heavy I couldn’t move it when I was 7, to our tablets which is a 7 year old modern toy. Technology has it’s ups and downs and us as humans have to know which to approve and which to ignore. In his recent book, Modern Romance, standup comedian Aziz Ansari talks about how the culture of finding love has change dramatically. He interviews thousands of people, old and young, and ask them about their dating lives. He also travels to other countries such as Japan, Argentina, and France, to study the dating habits and lives of people around the world as well, and to see how technology and online dating has impacted their lives. …show more content…
From his research done about Qataris women and their rights, Ansari explains that women don’t have the right to date or flirt in public. They don’t have the right to live alone, and they can only leave their parent’s house if they get married, or die. But with the rise of social media, and online dating, everything is changing. Now, young Qataris are using technology to socialize with opposite sex in private of their smartphones, and to organize small private parties in hotel rooms. When they go to the hotel lobby, women wear their special cover to be undercover, and go wherever they want to go without someone recognizing them (Ansari, 120-121). As a woman coming from a traditional dating culture of Iran, emerging adulthood is important to me, because, it gives me the right to have education, and become an independent woman. I can have the right to grow up and learn new things, before getting married to someone who I want to spend the rest of my life with.
Even though online dating and technology had brought many negative outcome such as ones mentioned earlier, the impact that they had in giving rights to women Rahnavardi
We went from big screen computers, which were so heavy I couldn’t move it when I was 7, to our tablets which is a 7 year old modern toy. Technology has it’s ups and downs and us as humans have to know which to approve and which to ignore. In his recent book, Modern Romance, standup comedian Aziz Ansari talks about how the culture of finding love has change dramatically. He interviews thousands of people, old and young, and ask them about their dating lives. He also travels to other countries such as Japan, Argentina, and France, to study the dating habits and lives of people around the world as well, and to see how technology and online dating has impacted their lives. …show more content…
From his research done about Qataris women and their rights, Ansari explains that women don’t have the right to date or flirt in public. They don’t have the right to live alone, and they can only leave their parent’s house if they get married, or die. But with the rise of social media, and online dating, everything is changing. Now, young Qataris are using technology to socialize with opposite sex in private of their smartphones, and to organize small private parties in hotel rooms. When they go to the hotel lobby, women wear their special cover to be undercover, and go wherever they want to go without someone recognizing them (Ansari, 120-121). As a woman coming from a traditional dating culture of Iran, emerging adulthood is important to me, because, it gives me the right to have education, and become an independent woman. I can have the right to grow up and learn new things, before getting married to someone who I want to spend the rest of my life with.
Even though online dating and technology had brought many negative outcome such as ones mentioned earlier, the impact that they had in giving rights to women Rahnavardi