Throughout the last few weeks we have talked about dehumanization, oppression, immigration and group dynamics. We have had multiple people and discussions about these topics. I have read many articles, heard speakers, and been taught a lot about these topics but there is always something new that I can learn and always another perspective on the topics. We talked a lot about dehumanization and oppression. This has been going on for many years in the United States. It started when America was colonized. The first people that were dehumanized here in the United States, were the Native Americans. “..described the “savages” as “cruel beasts,” who possessed “a more unnatural brutishness” than wild animals.” (Takaki, 2008, p. 36). The Native Americans were considered to be animals and because of that were treated as animals. This type of dehumanization and oppression continued. The African Americans were taken as slaves and considered property. They …show more content…
The women were not allowed to go to school. Many of the schools were bombed by the Taliban that where girls schools. The schools for girls, were hidden and very secretive. “As in most families, the girls stayed at home while the boys went to school.” (Yousafzai, 2015, p. 29). Women’s roles were to stay at home, cook, and raise children. Women had very few rights and could do very few things without a man. “A women couldn’t even open a bank account without a man’s permission.” (Yousafzai, 2015, p. 31). It was set up so women could not succeed without a man. They were oppressed to a point of being unable to anything. This blows my mind. Here in the United States, women are allowed to have bank accounts, go to school and have jobs. This hasn’t always been the case here in the United States either. Women have been oppressed all over the country and not given the same rights as men. Here in the United States, women are still struggling to get the same jobs and wages as
The Taliban regime was infamous for its treatment of women. Windows had to be painted black so men could not look into the windows of houses and see the women inside. Women were unable to work. Under Taliban rule, women were not allowed to be educated, unable to go to school or university. 9 out of 10 Afghan women are illiterate. Unfortunately, Meena was unwillingly cast into the role of teacher to young girls who wanted to learn how to read. Because she had been to university, girls flocked to...
In 1997, the Taliban made a law banning girls from ages 8 and up from going to school and forced all girl’s learning facilities to be shut down, according to Explora. Some girls still tried to go to school regardless of the Taliban and one of those girls is Malala Yousafzai. Her family did not hide their feelings toward the ban of girls in school to the public, when Malala was twelve she began blogging for the British Broadcasting Corporation about what life was like under the Taliban rule anonymously, and she also campaigned publicly for girls education rights, this enraged the Taliban. As a result, On October 9, 2012 when Malala was riding home from school, her bus was stopped by 2 Taliban members and they fired 3 shots at Malala, thankfully none of them killed her but she was seriously injured by this, as declared by NobelPrize.com. Furthermore, this is not the only harsh rule of the Taliban to women. Women were forced to wear a head-to-toe covering known as a burka, they were not allowed to leave the house without a male, and they made it a rule to publicly stone women who were convicted of adultery, as stated in The Other Side of the Sky, by Farah Ahmedi. Arguably, you can see their was a definite bias in sexes in the Taliban that is very unfair to women
Women in America do not have to worry about a terrorist group coming and taking their rights away. They have a government that protects them from these groups and makes sure they have the same rights as others. In the Middle East, especially Afghanistan and Pakistan, women are scared to speak too loudly. These women live in fear each day of their lives because if they make one small mistake it could mean their life. Yet, there are some people who are fighting for women’s rights, especially women’s education. Malala Yousafzai is a girl who fought for women’s education. At the age of eleven, Malala began writing a blog for BBC Urdu. The blog described how she was upset that women’s education under the Taliban would be forced to stop. Malala also appeared on national television talking about women’s education. She has become a symbol of resistance against the Taliban. Even after Malala was put on the Taliban’s hit list, she continues to speak out about what she felt needed to be said. Malala would give her life for this cause, and she almost did. On October 9, 2012, Malala was on her way home from her morning classes when a man walked on to her bus and asked, “Who is Malala”. When she said it was her he shot her. The bullets hit her head and her leg. The Taliban ordered for her to be shot because she was promoting western culture in Pashtun areas. In another case Mukhtar Mai stood up for women’s rights and was sexually assaulted by multiple men with orders from the tribal council. The tradition in Mukhtar’s tribe was that a woman who is sexually assaulted by multiple men should kill herself, but instead of committing suicide she fought for her cause (Samira 28-30). Although the Taliban restricts women’s education for religious reaso...
It became a dangerous and overwhelming place to be. TV and music were banned for everyone and the women had it worse. They could no longer hold a job, go to school, and enjoy shopping. (Malala’s Dream: A Brave Teen From Pakistan…) Women were isolated.
Race has been one of the most outstanding situations in the United States all the way from the 1500s up until now. The concept of race has been socially constructed in a way that is broad and difficult to understand. Social construction can be defined as the set of rules are determined by society’s urges and trends. The rules created by society play a huge role in racialization, as the U.S. creates laws to separate the English or whites from the nonwhites. Europeans, Indigenous People, and Africans were all racialized and victimized due to various reasons. Both the Europeans and Indigenous People were treated differently than African American slaves since they had slightly more freedom and rights, but in many ways they are also treated the same. The social construction of race between the Europeans, Indigenous People, and Africans led to the establishment of how one group is different from the other.
Ninety percent of girls and sixty percent of boys were found illiterate one year after the Taliban reign. Being able to read and write is an essential part of being a functioning member of society. The Taliban have taken the rights of women away which has marginalized them from society. Not just women are affected by the Taliban though, the strict laws also affect men as well. In the book My Forbidden Face by Latifa, Latifa shows why people don’t rebel against the Taliban or any other dictatorship.
... respect and basically treated like animals. Men clearly controlled their wives. They had absolute power over them and the women could not do anything about it. The authorities allowed this to happen. They would just ignore the abuse, like it was normal. They thought nothing of it. All the women could really do was follow the rules and please their husband. The women were simply used for producing children and doing labor work. They were even treated like slaves too! Women weren't even allowed to wear makeup and wear anything beside a burqa. Their bodies and faces were covered most of the time. It is clear that women were given no respect and that men had full control over women in Afghanistan. Once the Taliban finally lost control there was hope that things would improve for women. However, in many cases abusive acts continue for women in Afghanistan.
The act of deindividuation and dehumanization can drive us to do some really despicable and evil acts towards other human beings. There are examples in history where humans have committed deindividuating and dehumanizing acts towards others human beings that were despicable and evil.
In 1984, George Orwell presents an overly controlled society that is run by Big Brother. The protagonist, Winston, attempts to “stay human” in the face of a dehumanizing, totalitarian regime. Big Brother possesses so much control over these people that even the most natural thoughts such as love and sex are considered taboo and are punishable. Big Brother has taken this society and turned each individual against one another. Parents distrust their own offspring, husband and wife turn on one another, and some people turn on their own selves entirely. The people of Oceania become brainwashed by Big Brother. Punishment for any uprising rebellions is punishable harshly.
Library of Congress’s (LOC) decision to cease the use of the phrase “illegal alien” is a superb action in my opinion. The Dartmouth Coalition for Immigration Reform (CoFIRED), is a group of students, were highly influential in having for this congressional change. I firmly believe the reform they made is necessary because the phrase was dehumanizing to immigrants and promoted hatred. The change has been supported by many organization and has made a significant change in the morale of the immigration community.
For as long as I could remember, African Americans have succumbed to some of the cruelest treatment seen in America’s history. This mistreatment has taken on many forms particularly in respect to social and racial discrimination. Examples of prior struggles for equality of African Americans in America may include: the pursuit of their freedom and equal treatment that was attributed by slavery, attaining voting rights, and being able to secure a job that would not discriminate based solely on their skin color. A number of Key figures were instrumental in making American what it is today and here are just to name a few: Harriet Tubman, Martin Luther King Jr., and Thurgood Marshall.
Slavery dominated the economy of the American Southern states during the antebellum period between 1793 and 1850. The dehumanization of these people resulted in them being viewed only as property by many slave-owners, who relied on their slaves in to support their family and plantation. This reliance produced a fear that the slaves would escape, which called for subsequent laws to arise in the South in which return procedures and punishments were clearly defined for a caught runaway slave. Ex-slaves who were now legally free were also attacked through government policies that strived to find a reason to take the freedman into custody or back into slavery. Some of these regulations can be found in the Fugitive Slave Act passed in 1850 and the
When the Taliban first took over in Afghanistan, women were forced to dramatically change the way they lived, and many were forced to leave their careers, education, and money behind. Women were forced to leave everything they had worked for behind. Education was prohibited, their right to vote was terminated, the only job they could have was to cook for their family, clean, and raise the children, and they were denied of any medical help they were in need of (James M. Ryan). Another law that had an effect on women was that they didn’t have the right to choose their spouse. Also, a new law was created saying that women had to keep their body covered at all times, including their eyes. One of the most stressful laws that were created was that women had to have a male escort with the...
Since the starting years for ladies in Afghan have had for all intents and purposes no rights or opportunities. The effect of the Taliban forced restraint was most intensely felt in urban areas where ladies had delighted in moderately more important opportunities. At the point when the Taliban assumed control, ladies were not permitted to go to class and others have been compelled to leave their employments. The Taliban had issued orders denying ladies from working
Even after the fall of the Taliban regime, there are still many impediments to women’s education, such as discrimination on the basis of sex, patriarchy, and male domination in the society. Furthermore, local traditions and discrimination against women’s education, lack of female schools in villages, lack of proper education infrastructure, lack of personal security, and lack of female teachers are still the main problems that Afghanistan, especially the villages, face today. (REfrence)