Appiah The Case For Contamination Appiah Summary

If faced with globalization, these people may move away or even learn different languages and just generally become different. This, in Appiah’s view, is not something that we should prevent from happening because within these tiny homogenous pockets are people that long to be different therefore, by allowing contamination to occur, you allow people to shape their own lives instead of them being oppressed into a cultural homogeneity: “there is no place for the enforcement of diversity by trapping people within a kind of difference they long to escape.” (105)

Equality between men and women has grown stronger, but in many ways, it is the same. We still live in a society where women are paid significantly less than men, women have less job opportunities,

Just like the author, until we see the world, our experiences will be the only thing we use to judge the world off of. Some have firsthand experiences of inequality and some do not. Some are exposed to it early in life and some still live in oblivion. While the author was growing, men and women played different roles. The men he knew worked

In terms of the conflict perspective, it sheds a light on Karl Marx and Max Weber and their take of religion in society. While these two offer different views of religion from a conflict perspective, they suggest that faith has been used to justify or support social inequality. Since the conflict theory focuses on who holds the power in society, they would see where and what power Muslims hold. The feminist theory on this issue would ask how do these restrictions and actions towards Muslims affect women? The feminist theory in the face of Islam is constantly brought up because many people believe Islam oppresses their women. There are claims that the religious garments Muslim wear are oppressing and depleting their womanhood. With a symbolic interactionist perspective, it focuses on the way in which the words and meanings have an impact of interactions to individuals and groups in society. Islam is analyzed with its beliefs and meanings on how it flows through society and its impact within it. Since social problems are created and defined through interaction. Interactionists would look at the interactions to and of Muslims to determine how the social problem arised through expectations and social

Another story that deals with a woman’s role in society is “The Yellow Wallpaper.” Their role is often portrayed as being controlled by men because that’s what they were in the 19th century. This story takes place in the 19th century which just goes to show that nothing really changes. “The Yellow Wallpaper” is about a woman who is basically locked away in a house by her husband due to her “psychological” problems. She isn’t allowed to leave and she only has a small window with bars across it. When she look out the window she basically creeps around in order to blend in with society. She also doesn’t want to see the other women who have to do the same thing as her because she knows that those women are a reflection of her. This just goes to show that women are to move without being seen. They have to abide by their husband’s rules or any man’s rules for that matter. Men are very superior during this time and if women don’t follow, then it most likely wouldn’t end well. The woman’s role in “The Yellow Wallpaper” is to not bother her husband and keep quiet. The world isn’t supposed to know about her condition obviously, considering she can’t leave the house.

Women’s rights have improved drastically since that time but there still is a stigma that men are better than women. This type of view is wrong and shouldn’t even be thought about in the world we live into today. Woman server a great purpose in the world we live in and should be considered equal in all aspects of life. If one were to ponder this idea seriously we can see without out women no children are born. The sad truth is that women still have to fight for their rights in every aspect of their daily lives. The typical women in society makes only .70 cents for every dollar that a man would make doing the same job. One would think that one hundred and fifty years later women would be considered equal counterparts to men. “There has been progress toward greater workplace equality, but we still have a long ways to

Yet inequalities may not be the case for women in more westernized nations as they receive greater freedom (60). This is where the great diversity between modernist Muslim’s and conservative Muslim’s come in. Modernist Muslims argue genuine Islam is compatible with modern west society and political ideas such as democracy and the equality of women. The views of women in society are supported by revelations of the prophet Mohammed. On the other hand we have conservative Muslims where they believe in

For example, women’s earning income compared to men's earning income. In 2015, the Catalyst website published an article called ‘Women’s Earnings and Income’. The main idea of the article is the comparison of women earning income and male earning income. This article shows how in each and every way, men are always on top of women. “Women have come a long way but are still not a parity. Women will need to work more than 70 additional days each year to catch up to men. At the current rate of change, it will take 45 years(until 2058) for women and men to reach parity.” This means women have a long way to go in order to receive equal income and earnings as men and they would have to work harder and longer in order to catch up to the average earnings and income of a man. This relates to my thesis because this shows how patriarchy comes into play; This is the patriarchy system conspiring women at its fullest because this quote basically talks about how women have to work hard in order to be equal to men. This shows how they are putting down because at this rate women would not have a chance to be equal to men, men will always have a bigger income than

Mill makes a very strong argument that the position women have in society is not the only possible way to structure societal hierarchy. The reason it seems unnatural to change its structure, he claims, is because it is uncustomary.

Today, Islam is seen as a violent religion, the mention of Muslims anywhere strike fear into people. But yet there are more Muslim doctors, writers, engineers, scientist, thriving in first world countries than anyone else. Muslim people lack the ability to have their own identity due to the medias interpretation of them. It’s even more for Muslim women because they will forever be painted as Oppressed. In American Muslim Women by Jamillah Karim, the author gathers information about barriers Muslim women face living in Chicago and Atlanta, either through segregations, discrimination, and gender roles. The author mentions how people of the same ethnic background tend to stay together, instead of branching outside or their race, and how Muslim women are treated like underdogs when they interact with Muslim men in the mosque, at work, and etc. People that normally identify with the same race, religion, and ethnicity tend to stay together. This reading discussed “boundaries” that women face in the mosque and how they are bound to the back, while men are privileged with front row seats, closer to the Unman. The reason could be that these women that

There are many political, religious, and cultural factors that shape the lives of Islamic women many of them are completely different than factors in the lives of American women. Islam is one of the world’s fastest growing religions; however, Brooks argues that “Islam’s holiest texts have been misused to justify the repression of women, and how male pride and power have warped the original message of this once liberating faith.” The book also shows these factors have slowly been taking away women’s rights, rather than furthering them.

If we were to lay the topic “effects of globalization” on the table, what assumptions might arise? Well, one might point out whether globalization can be considered as a positive thing or negative thing towards different cultures. The article “Case for contamination” gives insight on the author’s views and arguments towards globalization and how that intertwined with the people in Ghana.

The women's rights movement is a good example of how women have come across very strongly, fighting for their political, social and economical status. I feel that technology and modernization have also opened new possibilities for improvement around the world.

In today’s society women are given ample opportunity just as much as men. In some countries, such as middle-eastern nations that is not the case. Muslim women are often perceived to be submissive to Muslim men and unequal. Mohammed never taught for women to be treated as lower class citizens. Nonetheless, the blame is pointed towards the religion of Islam. The Islamic religion began as all monotheist religions representing a belief in one God and moral standards. In the following essay I will discuss and elaborate what Mohammed taught, how women lived in early Islamic society, and what it has become.

The difference in attitude and treatment towards men and women from society is shown in “Young Goodman Brown”,in this case, I am going to analyze the anti-feminist side. There are multiple points in this short story that aid my point. The author, Nathaniel Hawthorne may have written this based on his time when differences towards genders occurred. Women are portrayed as powerless but rather innocent victims while men are seen as the more powerful individuals, making all the decisions for them and their families. If people do not follow the roles their gender associate with, the conflicts between them and society may uprise with it.