Defying Stereotypes: A Tale of Two Soccer Girls

There are two 18 year old girls who loves to play soccer but their parents are always against it. Jesminder’s parents have forbidden her to play soccer because she is a girl but her coach, Joe was impressed with how she played and put her in the team. She lied to her parents and pretended that she got a job so that she could play on the team.
Jess’s friend, Juliette is also going through the same thing. Juliette’s mother believes that she shouldn’t be playing soccer since the sport is only for guys and thinks that boys don’t want to being going out with girls that have bigger muscles than them.

This text connects to the idea of empathy and conflicting cultures as it shows the stereotypes, genders and equality in the text. In the text the parents

of the two girls believe that only boys play soccer.
Jess’s mother wants her daughter to become like a lady and learn how to cook food so that when she have a family she could take care of them. Her mother is also against how she wear shorts for her soccer uniform, how she’s dark from the sun and how she plays and hangs out with boys. Jess’s father on the other hand is more westernised which made him understood most things that Jess is doing whereas her mother is a housewife, making her more traditional and less westernised.

This text is related to my other chosen text as it shows the disagreement from people and how it could affect them.

This text has developed my understanding of Conflicting cultures by seeing all the things the parents are against. Parents saying that their daughter aren’t allow to play soccer since boys are only suppose to play it. In many cultures’s eyes especially Jess’s mother’s eyes, she strongly believes that girls should be covered up by long clothing such as pants, long shirts, etc and not short clothing like shorts and t-shirts. This helped me understand that some cultures like her have to be dress appropriately until she’s married. Once she’s married she can do whatever she likes.