Showing posts with label Earthly concerns. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Earthly concerns. Show all posts

A weird discussion

4/21/2011 06:43:00 PM | Categories:

Sometimes I come across people who say things to me that I simply can not let go. I can not stop thinking about it and often I can not sleep at night because when I'm trying to figure out how I can give a good response and sometimes I'm just too angry and lies and argue with the person in question in my head. I always have so much good things to say when I'm lying there in the darkness.  

It has happened two things recently that made ​​me irritated and I am now thinking very much about. One of these things is a discussion I had with my sister a month ago. Yes I know a whole month, I have gone around and been irritated and a bit sad that my sister for the first refused to listen to my arguments, and second she seems to think that I am completely without brain cells. Ok I'm no Einstein but I'm really absolutely not without brain cells either. Maybe I should explain what happened.  

We looked at a period movie and for some reason we got on the following dicussion:
My sister says: It's so funny that people at that time believed that there was a hymen. 
I said: Yes, but it does actually.  
My sister: No, it's a myth  
I said: No it is not a myth.  

Then I tried to then explain the following to her: The hymen is a membrane that surrounds or partially covers the external vaginal opening. It forms part of the vulva, or external genitalia. (wikipedia) Well not exactly with these words but you get what I mean right? 
But she just would not listen to reason. She did not listen period.

I know this is a weird topic perhaps to discuss but she have been saying this quite often latley and I just had to say something this time. And she just looked at me like there was something wrong with my brain or something.

Am I really that stupid? But would it not be something you had heard about before, I mean if it was really a myth??

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Just a question

4/16/2011 09:30:00 AM | Categories:

What makes a mother to leave her child? I can not understand it. When I look at my son I just want to protect him and keep him close. How can one look at her child and then leave him / her?
  
I´m just wondering

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Assimilation... A really ugly word to me

4/13/2011 02:10:00 PM | Categories:

My rights as a citizen. Human rights. These are big words. Most people who live in the West hardly ever think about this. Their rights are so natural and Obvious for them. Most people are demanding their rights from society without even being aware of it for the simple reason that they have never been denied their rights.  

BUT  

There are groups in society that those rights never seems to apply.  

The right to dress as they want. The right to believe what you want. The right to work with what you want. etc.  

Of course, no one is officially denied this. But it happens every day. I read on a blog that I like very much that for a Muslim woman, her rights, is something she must struggle with every day. It is so interesting to the perfect vest with his strong views on human rights just seems to apply to a part of the population, but not all. The people who follow the prevailing culture of the country they are in, never have to wonder whether their rights are being violated. But the people who choose another path may be struggling with their rights every day.

But if you decide to abandon all that you are (your culture, religion, language, etc.) then you can be accepted by society and never have to fight for your rights (because then you have abandoned them) Assimilation called it. Immigrants need to assimilate.  It's about immigrant groups and individual migrants amounting in the existing social and cultural structure that mainstream society represents. This is done by immigrants in socially and culturally significant aspects are the same, and thereby participate on an equal footing, as members of mainstream society. This while the majority society in these espects remains unchanged for. Assimilation thus focuses on the immigrants participating in the public sphere at the same conditions as members of mainstream society, while those in the private sphere give up distinctive cultural features, and instead embrace
majority society's culture.  

According to wikipedia means assimilation: Assimilation is when the newcomers in a society adapts to the majority's culture, language, values, and sometimes religion.

I hate the word assimilation!

Yesterday I met a friend who uses the Niqab. She told me that people were often very rude to her (this surprised me not) The thing that surprised me was that she told me she often was overlooked when she for example ordered something at a cafe, she sometimes would have to wait very long for her food and guests who ordered food after her sometimes got their food before her. Almost as if it was ok to ignore my friend just because she uses the Niqab. There are many examples like this to tell but this is not the place for it.

I do not really know where I wanted to come with this post but the point is that just because you live in the West, it does not mean that you are included in their community. Not really, just on the surface.

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