As globalization develop rapidly, the society difference is more and more noticeable to people nowadays, especially the difference related to attitude towards gender. Facing different views about gender, some people use his or her own standard to judge the phenomenon that shows up in the societies with different contexts. However, society might be more complicated than one thought and gender problems may be more complex under different context; to understand those problems better, one should put the phenomenon in the related context.
Under different context, some occurrence that seems like a gender problem might be more complicated. Sticking on presumption, people might get wrong conclusion. In Chandra Talpade Mohanty’s essay, Under Western …show more content…
Chandra Talpade Mohanty also talk about this opinion when she refers to the female genital mutilation in Africa.
Although it is true that the potential of male violence against women circumscribes and elucidates their social position to a certain extent defining women as archetypal victims freezes them into "objects-who-defend-themselves," men into "subjects-who-perpetrate-violence," and (every) society into powerless( read: women) and powerful(read: men) groups of people. (Women as Victims of Male Violence, Chandra Talpade …show more content…
Without understanding the correlation of one’s biography, history, and traditions along with the knowledge of the social and historical impact and/or influence society may have on that person or group of people. In Yen Le Espiritu’s essay, We Don’t Sleep around like White Girls Do: Family, Culture, and Gender in Filipina American Lives, she mentions the moral standard in Filipina American and Filipina immigrants communities; she said, “My epigraphs, quotations of a Filipina immigrant mother and a second-generation Filipina daughter, suggest that the virtuous Filipina daughter is partially constructed on the conceptualization of white women as sexually immoral.” (Paragraph 2, Yen Le Espiritu) In many Asian societies, people consider virginity a valuable property of the female. As the globalization develop, more and more young people in Asian countries, especially in China, interact with the Western culture, such as American TV shows, English songs and English films. The phenomenon that shows up in Yen’s essay also shows up in modern Chinese society; the parents of those teenagers suggest, “Losing virginity is shameful to girls” (a Chinese college female student, 20 years old), however, the when talking about the virginity of male, those parent’s attitude is ambiguous. Moreover, in Chinese website, a very insulting noun that directly depicts
Under different context, some occurrence that seems like a gender problem might be more complicated. Sticking on presumption, people might get wrong conclusion. In Chandra Talpade Mohanty’s essay, Under Western …show more content…
Chandra Talpade Mohanty also talk about this opinion when she refers to the female genital mutilation in Africa.
Although it is true that the potential of male violence against women circumscribes and elucidates their social position to a certain extent defining women as archetypal victims freezes them into "objects-who-defend-themselves," men into "subjects-who-perpetrate-violence," and (every) society into powerless( read: women) and powerful(read: men) groups of people. (Women as Victims of Male Violence, Chandra Talpade …show more content…
Without understanding the correlation of one’s biography, history, and traditions along with the knowledge of the social and historical impact and/or influence society may have on that person or group of people. In Yen Le Espiritu’s essay, We Don’t Sleep around like White Girls Do: Family, Culture, and Gender in Filipina American Lives, she mentions the moral standard in Filipina American and Filipina immigrants communities; she said, “My epigraphs, quotations of a Filipina immigrant mother and a second-generation Filipina daughter, suggest that the virtuous Filipina daughter is partially constructed on the conceptualization of white women as sexually immoral.” (Paragraph 2, Yen Le Espiritu) In many Asian societies, people consider virginity a valuable property of the female. As the globalization develop, more and more young people in Asian countries, especially in China, interact with the Western culture, such as American TV shows, English songs and English films. The phenomenon that shows up in Yen’s essay also shows up in modern Chinese society; the parents of those teenagers suggest, “Losing virginity is shameful to girls” (a Chinese college female student, 20 years old), however, the when talking about the virginity of male, those parent’s attitude is ambiguous. Moreover, in Chinese website, a very insulting noun that directly depicts