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
One of the main controversies in this book is the plight of women and men’s struggles. Although both experienced different kinds of inequalities, women were the target of the Taliban. In 1978, women in Kabul were demanding their rights during the Afghan Women’s Year. The president who was in charge then was president Daoud, and he decreed, “The Afghan woman has the same right as the Afghan man to exercise personal freedom, choose a career, and fins a partner in marriage” (53). This decree was absolutely invalid when the Taliban expelled a humanitarian organization that was run by women, and because of that, the Taliban took over Kabul. Women were not allowed to work outside of home. Because of that, Latifa mentions that women in Kabul usually just bake bread, do embroidery,
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.
George Orwell's 1984 is predicting problems that are occurring today. The most pressing matter in the book seen also in the present is dehumanization. Dehumanization is the deprivation of one’s human qualities or attributes, removing individuality. Today this is happening due to the fact that people are losing their freedoms of privacy, speech, and thought. If changes are not made America will become a mindless, easily controlled society.
Ever since America was found, there has not been social equality. African Americans were slaves for hundreds of years. During World War II, people discriminated the Japanese. Today, people are discriminating Muslims. People have repeated this part of history so many times, that it keeps happening. South Carolina Slave Laws, established in 1740, starts out article ten by saying “Slaves being objects of property...” (Bowdoin College). In the eighteenth century, people didn’t even think of African Americans as people, just property. This feeling has been passed on from generation to generation. In, To Kill a Mockingbird, Tom Robinson, a black man, was accused of raping a white woman. After being claimed guilty, he was shot and killed. “In Maycomb, Tom’s death was typical,” said the narrator Scout Finch (Lee, 275). People were not fazed by a black man being killed because it has happened so many times in the
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.
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.
... 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.
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.
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
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.
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)