Saturday, April 14, 2018
Around the World Presentations
Students presented information about the issues men and women face worldwide, including the gender pay gap, violence against women, the status of the LGBTQ community, maternity/paternity leave, etc. Although there are continuing issues of inequality, it is also obvious that these issues are being discussed and debated around the world. Post your reflections in the comment section below.
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I thought the around the world presentations were really interesting. I liked how we got to look up information about other countries and got to learn about their culture, traditions, and struggles that they face. One aspect that stood out to me while listening to the presentations was the number of countries that view women as only good mothers and wives. That their place is in the kitchen, doing household chores, taking care of the kids, and being dependent on the husband. Some of the countries that believe this were Germany, Japan, India, Israel, and Mexico. Another issue I found interesting was how countries viewed the LGBTQ community. Ireland was one of the few that were very accepting of LGBTQ members. They even had openly gay members in government positions. However, majority of the other countries we discussed like Nigeria, Jamaica, Russia, China, and Haiti strongly oppose LGBTQ individuals. These people are often shunned, forced into conversion therapy, cyberbullied, and some cases even killed. I think overall these countries need to keep working towards gender equality. Women don’t deserve to be raped or killed just because they are female. Crimes against women need to be stopped. Women aren’t the weaker sex and should stop being viewed as less. Women deserve to be paid the same as men for doing the same job and working the same hours. Women also deserve to be well educated and given opportunities to succeed in life. New Zealand, for example, has more women who graduate college, but because women are viewed as less so are there jobs resulting in a huge wage gap of 20%.
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Overall, I noticed there is a problem with gender equality, in South Africa women do not shake hands like the men do, instead they just nod. In Russia the husband can legally beat the women unless the injuries are so server that she must go to a hospital. In France women are afraid to be a part of the country because of the sexism. Now there are counties that realize this a problem and they are taking steps to solve it. For example, men in South Africa are taking classes to control how they treat their wife and Paris has banned all sexual or inappropriate advertisement, showing that women are just an object and not a person. The gay community is also a worldwide problem, most countries are not fully accepting the idea that a women or man can show love toward the same sex. Hate crimes have been committed and in Brazil some people preform “correction rape” to turn the victim straight. This crime happened on a college campus. People are supposed to feel safe and not have to worry about things like this because the campus police should protect them from any harm. Overall I enjoyed learning about how other countries perceive things.
ReplyDeleteI got the chance to learn a lot about the different countries during around the world presentations. It was really interesting learning about different cultures, traditions, communities, way of life, and also the struggles that people deal with everyday. Different things that stood out to me were how a lot of the counties are dealing with the same things, and how women are viewed as the weaker sex, and as household providers and mothers. Also how the men are the stronger sex, and more dominant, and they are the only ones who go to work and are praised for everything they do. The main counties that stood out to me that practice this way of life was places like Japan, Mexico, India, Germany, Israel and Egypt. The LGBTQ was also another big issue among the countries. I noticed a lot of the countries viewed the community the same. Places like Nigeria, Jamaica, China, Haiti, Russia, Germany and many other places considered it a discrimination against the LGBTQ. If seen gay you were ofter shunned, forced into conversion therapy, bullied, and even can go as far as being killed. On the other hand a handful of counties allowed this to be practiced, even allowing gay marriages to be performed. Places like Ireland, Mexico and a few others were accepting this. The shocking thing to me was how racism in some of the countries was so bad, places the Philippines determined if you were good enough or not by the darkness of your skin. Another thing that took me by surprise was the honor killings that happened in Israel. One thing that I learned was that in America we area always comparing ourselves to the media appearance and always comparing ourselves especially the women but one thing that is very difference was that in Argentina they have banned beauty pageants and are not media centered at all. They think you are born the way you are you are naturally beautiful. I think women should have the same equality as men and should have every chance the same as men do. Women all around the world are strong independent women. Even in New Zealand and Egypt the women are more educated and graduate college but because women are viewed the way they are, the wage gap is tremendously different. For example, in both countries the wage gap is a 20% difference. Women deserve to be treated equal and as I've learned a lot about the different contours the garner equality is progressively increasing but still needs a lot of work to improving the way of life for women.
ReplyDeleteGender inequality is quite similar in most places in the world to the USA. Gender inequality is drawn out from what the USA has to an extremist point of view. I was surprised in some of the countries like China highly discriminate woman to the point that they look at feminist as dogs. I knew that China had a child policy and wanted more men than woman in the work place. It’s not shocking that companies don’t like woman in business because they have children and the company wants the people to work for them for a long time. No company in America wants to pay somebody to not work. In some of the countries being Brazil and possibly others the class didn’t talk about is that pregnant woman are overpopulating the prisons . I am surprised the prisons in Brazil want the liability of a child as well as the mother unless the mother committed a serious crime. Then again you look at USA and people who commit murders don’t get life, but victimless crimes people are punished a lot longer than they should have been. In Egypt is shocked me that they would have racism at all since most of the people in Egypt are dark because of the sunlight. Being of darker skin is looked downed upon, so that means nobody goes outside ever. I know whenever I step outside and there is sunlight to going back inside I am at least a tiny bit darker than I was before. Homosexuality looks wrong to me but to a lot of people they have different viewpoints than I do about homosexuality. I believe that homosexuality should be looked downed upon and bullying should stop because it is the soul reason homosexuality exist in the first place. No kid is going to just come out saying I am a homosexual without being exposed to having sex with that partner and being young saying gay is wrong, but the same goes for adults. Having feelings is one thing because you have feelings for everybody in the room that you meet because that feeling is mutual friendship, can’t stand them, or love them to death and want to take them home with you. These countries who look down to homosexuality I am surprised they don’t have propaganda about what it does to the brain on being a mental illness like I believe it is. Doesn’t mean somebody is gay because one day they assume they are gay because they never got so close to somebody, shute that could just be a wonderful friend that you love and adore your whole life. Cuba has a different look at homosexuality than any other place. Transgender as president that is different. Argentina how they fired the higher up for being transgender isn’t wrong because we don’t know went wrong with the transgender. Transgender could have had multiple mental health issues that we don’t know about, it just seems like an excuse for the transgender to be accepted, or the news could be right. From experience the people who are attention geters are the homosexuals. Every homosexual that I have met says along the lines of, “look at me, I am a gay I get more action than you will ever get, I get men and woman.” I think what plays a major part of homosexuality coming alive is the media. I believe if we didn’t have a sexualized media homosexuality would be way smaller than it is in all of the countries. The gays that I have met also have outrageous outburst because the world isn’t in their favor, and the pride parades in cities doesn’t surprise me one bit. It is all just one big act and we are the audience for them to make big outburst of believing we said something when we don’t. Homosexuality being okay in Cuba and being more of an acceptance than USA is okay to me. I am shocked about New Zealand and Egypt having woman with higher education than men as well and the woman still don't have as good of jobs. Woman not having good jobs, but higher education is quite common. Israel and India having the honor killings of the woman because having the woman is a liability is ludicrous.
ReplyDeleteI always thought that America was the only country who had the Nuclear family issue, where the men got the say, and the money, and the higher positions and women were always lesser in some way. After listening to all of these presentations, it became clear to me that this is not just an American issue; its a worldwide issue. I was surprised to see Cuba is farther along in this aspect by giving long paid maternity leave to mothers AND fathers AND grandparents, (whether they take advantage of it or not) and the pay gap was still there but very small. It was also interesting to learn that in middle eastern countries, racism isn't really about someone having dark skin in general, but it is more about how dark the skin is. Obviously thinking less of someone who has a different skin color is wrong, but to get so caught up in the different shades of skin is even pettier. I am not as surprised to see all the statistics of the prevalence of the LGBT community in the other countries. I expected that it would be extremely difficult for LGBT folks to get their foot in the door of middle eastern countries because those countries are very religious and legalistic in many aspects.
ReplyDeleteAfter hearing all of the presentations it really opened my eyes about how similar some countries are and how different they can be. It shocked me how many countries still have such big pay gaps but I'm glad some countries are getting past this. With the countries that presented it is about half and half for how many discriminate against the LGBTQ community and how many allow it. From all the countries that the class presented about 85% of the people said that their countries still believe that men are the more important gender and they have more power than the women do. I think it was shocking to me that kids in Canada do not get taught about the history of the LGBTQ community. Israel was a shocking learning experience for me just because I thought they would be more open about their religious beliefs but that isn't true. The fact that men have more religious rights and that they will get violent if women try and go against them. They have also had a 20% rise in their crimes since 2012. The biggest thing that shocked me was that they do "Honor killings". Cuba was also shocking for me because I thought they would be more biased with gender but they are 3rd in the world for most women in their government. Overall I really liked these presentations because they really opened my eyes to what other countries are like compared to what we believe in.
ReplyDeleteSadly, there is a deep range of different inequality issues around the world. I think it’s important that we all reflect over these issues to compare other countries’ inequality issues to our own experiences we’ve seen in the United States. One very similar trend that seemed to stay consistent across the globe was that women were considered lesser than a man in almost every country presented and seen as most fit for working at home; This could be taking care of the house, kids, food, etc. Commonly, there is always a pay gap that resonates from this idea and in many other countries alike our own, from the likes of Australia with a 15% pay gap, and Russian Women who get paid 70% of Men’s 100%, happen to be classic examples of countries that represent similar working-class numbers (comparing genders) but express greater wage gap comparisons. It’s devastating that women are giving greater numbers to work but aren’t compensated well enough. Furthermore, this statistic can lead reason to believe that other developing factors, like women victims of homicide and poverty rates, could be a depressing product of unequal treatment. An example of this issue can be presented in Brazil as ‘Rio’ has the 3rd most murder cases while their country in whole has the 5th highest homicide rate of women per 100,000. To spread some positive equality stats, I think it’s impressive that: Argentinian women get paid 98% of what men do; and Ireland is the home of Europe’s largest anti-racism campaign.
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Before I went into the around the world project, I myself thought that women and LGTBQ members were treated worse in the U.S. than in other countries. Fortunately, that is a fact of fiction. There are many other countries around the globe who have had unfair gender issues for generations. Many women around the world, especially in countries that practice sharia law, are looked down upon and abused. Surprisingly, there are many women in government office all around the world. I had originally figured U.S.A. was ranked higher on the scale of the percentage of women in government, but countries like France, South Africa, China and many others place above us on the list. I was surprised to find out that Russia, the country I researched, has laws that decriminalized domestic violence. Another thing that surprised me is how LGBTQ people are treated in Jamaica. Such a laid back place seems like it would be more accepting of that kind of stuff. I think it is crazy that there are still places in the world that think it is still okay to abuse women. Fortunately, women have been taking a stand and making a change in the world for the better. Hopefully one-day sexuality and gender will not make a difference in how someone’s character is judged.
ReplyDeleteI thought the around the world presentation were very interesting especially when considering how each country deals with the same issues but handles them in a different way. For example, domestic violence In Russia is completely decriminalized and it is only punishable if a woman has bruises and is hospitalized, As opposed to South Africa where they have public displays of domestic violence. Another example is how each country handles the LGTBQ community, For example, in Brazil they have the record for hate based murder within the LGBTQ community but in New Zealand they are ranked one of the most friendly travel destinations for that community. I also thought it was crazy that in some countries they don't tell an expecting mother what the sex of their baby is because they might have to kill them. In China, for example, they are only allowed two children and females are disliked and often times thought of as a burden and are more times than not killed.
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The all around the world presentations were great overall. We all learned something new from each other and each one was very interesting. A lot of them had to deal with the fact that women just don’t get paid the same as males. Often times they are pay much more less and to counteract that, each country is fighting for better if not equal payment for women. One that stood out to me was that in Israel when women are caught carrying the Torah on site at the wailing wall they are arrested because only men are allowed to carry it at the site. I not only think that this is sexist but also just wrong and childish but they have completely different rules there than we do in the United States. The one that stood out to me the most was the presentation over Argentina when the transgender had served over 20 years as a police officer and no one knew. When she finally built up the courage to tell everyone, they had the nerve to fire her as if anything was going to change about her work. She basically just worked 20 years for nothing. It’s wrong because now she can’t retire from there and has to go find another place to work and nobody will probably hire her because they don’t want all of the attention based on them. All in all, the whole world needs help and were far from perfect, but hopefully people keep fighting for change and eventually it happens.
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After hearing and seeing all the presentations I learned a little deeper than things I knew about most of the countries on the surfaces. Like for example I knew Russia was a communist country, but I didn’t know it wasn’t any real racism in the country because there’s not a lot of minority’s in that country. Which if you think about it makes sense because one why would anyone want to move to Russia with its history, and second it’s a communist country on top of that. The one thing I found that was similar from most of the presentations was the lack of protection for women experiencing domestic violence and violence. On a brighter note in countries like Cuba and Russia their maternity leave for women that had a baby are very good. In Cuba, the maternity leave is so good that grandparents even get it. The one thing that I found scary in countries like brazil is that they host the world’s biggest LGBTQ parade that is in danger of getting cut because of money, but can’t even protect gay students on school grounds. One bright side in a country not too far from brazil is that Argentinian women get paid almost 100% of what men do, they get paid 98%.
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I really enjoyed listening and learning about different countries in class. I realized that many of these countries hold the same traditions that Mexico holds. The whole housewife situation and the man being the man of the house. Which was interesting when I learned that Russia was one of the countries with the highest working rates for women, being 90% and men 94%. Another interesting point was that in Brazil, the fifth largest country in the world, Maria Fernandez survived two murder attempts in 1983. That's pretty insane to me. that a man tried to kill her twice. In South Africa, the motto is "unity in diversity" which I think is neat. Something obvious is that discrimination still happens everyday in almost every country. In New Zealand, 1 to 5 students experience racism everyday. 1 to 3 people experience racism in the workplace. I think this is very unfortunate. Lastly, I learned something new from every country. The discussions we had in class were also very informative.
ReplyDeleteI found all of the Around the World projects very interesting. I found it interesting how certain countries deal with certain issues in completely different ways. Also, I was amazed to hear how many countries accepted violence against women, racism, and discriminated against the LGBTQ community. For example, in Egypt they are allowed to refuse service to people with dark skin and are taken advantage of by men, in Haiti domestic violence is accepted, and in China domestic violence isn't a very serious issue along with being the worst place in the world to be gay, resulting in convergence therapy. Another thing that jumped out at me was how women were treated in all aspects of each country. For example, in South Africa many men have multiple wives, in Mexico how men and women follow gender rolls (men make the money and women stay at home with the kids), and even the 21% wage gap women face in Germany. It is very interesting that all of these countries and more have the same issues as we do in the United States and those issues could possibly be even worse than here in the United States. Finally, the one thing that really grasped my attention as well as everyone else's, was the Argentina presentation. It was the police officer who served over 20 years as a transgender. No one would have ever known because it was held in so long, but she finally came out because she felt comfortable after being there that long, and was fired on the spot. That really amazed me because if she did her job that well for 20 years, then she should have the right to keep her job. Although there are many countries who have many different reoccurring problems, I hope that there are changes made throughout the world as far as racism, gender inequality, violence, LGBTQ rights, and many more. I learned something new about every country and I thought that was really cool
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The around the world presentations were very informative. They just proved more how there is a lack of equality pretty much all around the world. Just by doing my own research about Cuba, it surprised me that they are more LGBTQ friendly than America is. Brazil also has issues with the LGTQ community. It’s surprising that the mayor of Brazil is openly gay but works against the people who are like him. There was other information that caught me off guard. For example, in Nigeria 300 girls were kidnapped for going to school because it is believed that Western education is sin. The people who captured these girls called them slaves and said that they will market them, which I thought was awful. Also, in India there is a great unbalance between genders. There is a low percentage of women in school and the sons are basically praised while daughters are just liabilities. Women are so looked down upon that when they’re pregnant they don’t get to know the gender of their child until it is born. India thinks that if they know the gender of their child during the pregnancy they will be tempted to get rid of the child if it’s a girl. Men are basically the rulers in that country. I would like to think that one day all of this discrimination and hatred will go away, but in reality it would take so long to do so. Meanwhile, we just have to hope that things will get better and continue to spread the word about these equality issues.
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The Around The World Presentations saddened me because it quickly came to my attention that issues I had thought that were unique to the U.S. were common around the world. The degrees in which these issues take root in the various countries both shocked and unfazed my previously held notions. The representation of females in the Cuban government was the 3rd most in the world; this is a great victory for female equality and something I hope that continues to rise. Canada’s purge of members of the LGBTQ community was an atrocity I had never heard of and am appalled that it isn’t taught in schools let alone the fact it occurred in the first place. Most of the issues discussed were not as black and white as one might think. The Philippines were culturally accepting of members of the LGBTQ community yet the legally had no laws in place protecting their freedoms. Cultural norms were exceptionally shocking around the globe such as Haiti & Russia’s acceptance of domestic violence as well as Israel’s history of Honor Killings. The idea of killing a family member for doing something the family deems shameful and having law enforcement not bat an eye is despicable. In conclusion, I thought I learned a lot about other countries and the issues its citizen's face.
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Taking time to look into other countries views on gender, media, and laws was extremely interesting. I have become aware of a whole new view just in the United States it was even more eye opening to see other countries. I began noticing we are not the only country suffering through inequality. To take a further look into gender inequality I agree that it is a worldwide issue that needs change more quickly. For a few examples, in France women are afraid to be in the country and in Russia women make 70% of what men do yearly. I hope to see more equality for women in all countries. I really liked the way South Africa focuses on “unity and diversity” these two words could often be looked at as opposites but they have found a way to make them work together for the greater of everyone. I think it is good to look at how other countries are establishing equality and to work on this problem together.
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All of the presentations were very interesting from the past few weeks. One glaring detail that stood out to me was that no countries have equal pay for females compared to the male's salary. I was also shocked to learn that the United States is behind a lot of other countries when it comes to gender equality. Another detail that most countries had in common was that people with darker skin were inferior to people with lighter skin. This surprised me especially in countries that are predominately darker skinned. It is interesting how some countries are so accepting of the LGBTQ community while other countries are very against it and do not accept it at all. It makes me wonder what the difference is and why it is different in different places. In all of the cultures viewed a woman's role was seen as being the care taker of the home, not the person that goes out and makes money because that is the males job. Also in most countries there were high crime rates against women, especially in Russia. It is alarming that Putin almost even encouraged it and it isn't against the law unless the woman is in need of professional care. Overall there is obviously a huge gender gap throughout the world, and it doesn't seem like it will be equal anytime soon. -Makenzie Musgrove
ReplyDeleteAll of the presentations I saw were very informative. There were somethings that I already knew of but not very much and I gained knowledge in those areas. I found the purge that Jeremi spoke of as a part of Canadian history and how the lgbtq community has progressed to be quite interesting and I also appreciated Jeremi’s ice breakers. If it weren’t for the presentation done on Cuba, I would have never known that Cuba was third in the world for the most female representation in government. I also found it very interesting to find out about the maternity leave policies in Cuba and that in 2017, grandparents were given paternity leave. I found that so considerate and convenient because not everyone gets the luxury of being raised by their parents. I have seen the hashtag #BringBackOurGirls but have not really seen the hashtag #BokoHaram and learning about those things during the presentation on Nigeria was enlightening. I did not know the entire scope of the situation with #BringBackOurGirls and the presentation really gave me perspective and humbled me that their are girls in Nigeria getting kidnapped for simply wanting to be educated. I enjoyed listening to many of the presentations presented throughout the series of Around the World presentations.
ReplyDeleteLearning about the different countries was quite interesting and informative. Learning more about my country which was South Africa was very new to me learning about the LGBTQ community and how diverse it is.I noticed how some different countries were more strict on the LGBTQ community than others.In South Africa it was new that men were protesting saying there are good men out there that don't rape women and treat them right, because women getting raped and killed was a big deal in South Africa and men were fed up with their women going through this. But overall it was nice learning about different cultures and countries and there norms.
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