Does this sound right to you??? In Afghanistan it is legal for a 60 year old man to marry an eight year old girl. And you might think to yourself, do these things really happen? Well they do, a young 8 year old girl has recently taken to court her marriage for divorce, she said she was raped by the man several times. The terms of marriage are simple, you can have sex until she has reached puberty, but the man couldn’t wait so he raped her. The marriage was not her idea, her brother set her up to get with the other mans sister.Now we might say things like, "that’s disgusting" or "how could they let that happen". Well in those countries its legal because women aren’t treated equally, and there is even a LAW that says wives are obliged to have sex once every four weeks. Women are not respected and things like that happen all the time, and when we question them and ask them what they're thinking, they just reply by saying "its just a cultural difference". They also get offended and say that westerners should be forcing their beliefs on them, and the say it is in their sacred script, because everything that is not forbidden, is allowed.
So what would i say to that? I say that that is completely wrong and it is not a cultural difference. Humans are born with morals and even the 8 year old girl cried and felt violated even though she was always taught that that’s how its suppose to be. So even if it is in their culture, it is a violation of natural human rights, but not because my western ideals think so, but because an innocent girl having been taught nothing else still knows that that was wrong. So should it really be allowed? I say NO but many people will just argue that its a "cultural difference".
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It's a cultural difference regardless of the morality of the case. They were brought up on those values and laws so that's what they are going to think is right and also beneficial. We are taught differently so that is why we think we're right. Remember our morality is mostly based on law and religion. We shouldn't come forcing anything on them, but bring the idea to them because it takes time to change and accept.
ReplyDeleteAccording to the text the man did violate the conditions of the marriage, but that's the only wrong he did in his country. Until we perfect ourselves we should work on us before others, but advice isn't bad, but making someone take i is. They have to learn it.
Well what you say has some fault to it because even thopugh their culture said that it was ok for them to get married, the girl still had some western values and did not like any of that even thouhg she was never taugh western ideals. I america we are free, so our beliefs are basicly the beliefs we are born with, so she knew that was wrong even though she was taught differently, its just human nature
ReplyDeleteWell obviously people are going to have different opinions, there are gonna be people who agree with eastern values and disagree with western and vice versa. Some parts or all you know. Just how people have two sides about everything we do here.
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