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13 years ago @ Race Relations Project - Christian Invaders - t... · 0 replies · +1 points
Another thing I like about Sam trying to make us understand was him putting it into perspective about what we would do if we were the young Arab/Muslim students looking at the foreign news about the American soldiers. People always talk about how we need to be over there because “they bombed us, so we need to bomb them”. I saw 9/11 first hand and to think that destruction on that scale has been happening for the last 9 years in their country also puts things in perspective. So it is important for everyone to try and understand why these things are happening. I need to say that I do not agree, but I understand.
13 years ago @ Race Relations Project - Christian Invaders - t... · 0 replies · +1 points
He wasn’t saying that Christians are really invaders; he was saying that this is the way that Muslims (not all) probably see us as Americans (and most American’s who are Christians) as invaders coming into their land trying to take over, just as we see them as Muslims trying to “infiltrate” the united states and take over. He was trying to get us to see it from a different perspective, yet of course Christians just immediately took the defensive. We as Christians really need to try and look past our hang-ups sometimes and have an open mind. That does not mean that the people and things that try to get us to have an open mind are trying to lure us away from the Lord. I fully support the troops over in Iraq and Afghanistan, but we need to understand those who are our enemies otherwise we will all be forever at war. We will forever be divided and unable to see past our ethnocentricities.
13 years ago @ Race Relations Project - Christian Invaders - t... · 0 replies · +1 points
13 years ago @ Race Relations Project - Women · 0 replies · +1 points
And just to have a word on the idea of if women dress for men or if women dress for other women… I would say both. If you are going out with a group of your friends, then yes, you will dress a certain way because your friend is dressed a certain way and you want to look better than her (or him). But if you are going out and you know that you will see a guy there that you like, and who maybe likes you, then of course you are going to spruce yourself up for him because he will see you. It is a messy situation, but I do agree that women, no matter where they are from should support one another.
13 years ago @ Race Relations Project - Women · 0 replies · +1 points
Women are different across cultures and across color (in minor ways). When it comes to the rights that all women should have then even that gets a bit blurry. We as American females may think that genital mutilation is an atrocious monstrous deed that is ruining a female. But in the cultures where it is done some (not all) of those women feel that it is a right of theirs and they want to do it. Same thing with the Middle-Eastern women who wear the hijab. We see it at oppression, yet they see at as freedom from societal pressures of beauty and as a chance for them to be themselves and express their beauty through their confidence.
13 years ago @ Race Relations Project - Women · 0 replies · +1 points
that lead us to be that way?
Now I won’t sit here and judge and say that I am a woman who never gets affected by the stress of trying to adhere to the oppressive societal norms that are placed upon women, forcing them to look a certain way, but I do agree with Laurie that something needs to change in order for us to feel comfortable with ourselves. I agree with the girl in the video to which I am responding to a certain extent, when she says that all women are portrayed differently in the media, but if you notice, these women almost always portray a certain stereotype. There is the smart girl, the fat girl, the slut, the girl-next-door, or what have you. Perhaps they are not being scrutinized because of the size of their breasts but they are certainly being put into another box with is another form of societal oppression. Also, she mentioned that we are all women and we are all the same because that link to being the female sex binds us all together. I only partially agree.
13 years ago @ Race Relations Project - Women · 0 replies · +1 points
It is interesting to me that when women as a collective whole, like in a classroom for instance feel like they are under pressure, or one of them is being put on the spot, or we are talking about a touchy subject, they are quick to come to the others defense and comfort them and say “don’t worry, just be yourself, we are all beautiful.” I also found it interesting that no one was able to answer Laurie’s question, which was its fine that we all should be comfortable, but what are the contributing factors that lead us to be that way?
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14 years ago @ Race Relations Project - Those Dolls Say Alot A... · 0 replies · +1 points
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