Patriarchy In American Culture

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Every of our cultures teaches us that we should treat everyone honorable and equal. But it is an undeniable fact of our history how patriarchy was existing. I think for our past societies it was in nature to act patriarchal, so that is why women in many cultures were tend to be seen as slaves or property. As a society we have put in charge the strongest person in someone’s culture, community. This person have made the rules and in more cases thus person was a man. Back then we did not consider women as a higher person. I’m not sure if our world would be better, it would be different. We always can ask ourselves “what if..”. As a society we develop every day, we have become more intellectual. Our power of the brain is now more valued than having

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