Comparison Of Decora Girls Similar To American Groups

Western portrayals of Asian women in media have often been stereotypical, one-dimensional characters such as the submissive and docile Lotus Blossom, the strong and domineering, but deceitful Dragon Lady, or the Asian hooker who is used as nothing more than a mere prop for the male gaze (Kuo, Rachel). However, the Western audience has also been exposed to other portrayals of Asian women through another form of entertainment called anime. Anime, or Japanese animation, has many genres that are named according to the target audience it is made for. For shounen, meaning male adolescents, is largely about action-packed adventures and accomplishing a goal or defeating an enemy (Eisenbeis, Richard). The shounen genre, however, despite its target audience that is

Although CBT is promoted by most psychological professionals and much of the research conducted on this psychological orientation thus far proves its efficacy, like a majority of past research, it was primarily conducted using a white population. Due to the lack of research, there is no way to assert CBT is the best treatment option for the specific population of South Asian female immigrants, even though this population suffers from mental health issues, such as depression, anxiety, and eating disorders, that CBT is known for treating.

Searching for autonomous female cultural forms in the bedroom hideaways of teenage girls has been problematic--in terms of the creative, productive, and potentially subversive power of this mode of femininity. Researchers thought that studying "teeny bopper culture" was the key which would unlock the potentialities of specifically female forms. Subculture theory proved to be an inadequate starting point for studies of female culture.

In terms of the topic of domestic violence, the issue can occur to any person, regardless of gender, racial ethnicity, socioeconomic background, etc. Yet, there are certain individuals in the population that are more susceptible to intimate partner violence, particularly minority women. For Black and Hispanic women, there have been little studies regarding their response to violent relationships, with a majority of studies being geared toward Caucasian females. Along with being more susceptible to domestic violence, minority women experiencing varying cultural beliefs and values that can determine whether they decide to leave or stay in an abusive relationship. In study conducted by Lacey (2010), she found out that “marital status, presence

When one is exposed to a different culture, he or she may experience a deviance. An example of a deviance behavior that is violating a culturally practice is wearing a Halloween costume to a grand business meeting. In any business meetings, the ideal attire is to dress up and act in the professional you want to be (Shandrow, 2014). Men are suppose to dress clean and be crispy looking from head to toe by wearing a suit, tie, black pants, and shiny shoes while women are dress with a blouse, blazer, and dress pants or a skirt that isn’t too short. Mainly, one should dress up appropriately to who the audience is. In contrast, dressing in a Halloween costume is

Even as their parents acknowledge how inappropriate their outfits are, they don't stop them from parading around. By letting the young girls of Dance Moms dress provocatively, it sends the message to the public that it's okay to hyper-sexualize youth. Not only that, the children in Dance Moms see their value as their body. Right from their childhood, they put their bodies on display to make money. In other movies and tv shows, the same amount of sexual content is present. Research has shown that the female characters in G-rated movies wear the same amount of sexually revealing clothing as the female characters in R-rated movies (Davis). No matter the movie you see, whether it is animated and kid friendly or a horror film, women are always portrayed in the same sexy way. When girls continuously see themselves being portrayed as the same characters in movies, the oversexualized female, they begin to think this is the one, generic way they need to be. This doesn’t only happen in movies either. Young women and girls are frequently being hyper-sexualized in advertisements and fashion spreads. One case in particular, 10 year old model Thylane Blondeau is featured in a fashion spread in French Vogue. In these pictures, Blondeau wear heavy makeup, provocative outfits, and poses in sexual ways. In one photo in particular, Blondeau has dark red lipstick and a lot of eye makeup,

The Chicano culture hinders women’s autonomy by imposing strict traditional gender roles. The two stories, “The Moths and “Growing Up” represent young girls coming of age and their increasing awareness of their patriarchal culture. Viramontes’ short stories, “The Moths” and “Growing Up” struggle with the patriarchal structure placed on their culture and their fathers demand for acceptance of traditional gender roles. Many Chicanas have been socialized to believe that the women’s primary role is to devote her life to the family in specific gender roles such as good wife mother and daughter through the lens of La Virgen de Guadalupe. Nevertheless, these gender socialization does not reveal into

Raunch culture, the over-sexualiation of woman, is on the rise as we so vividly see both in the movie “Mean Girls” and Ariel Levy’s, a well-known journalist and author’s, article titled Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture”. The movie “Mean Girls” tells the story of a highschool girl, Cady Heron, who moves to the country and to her first public school. She discovers that the best way to survive is to try to blend in with the norms that society provides. In her case, she befriends a group of girls who only focus on their sexual appearances, and belittling the others around them to feel more powerful and feminine in their own eyes. This theme closely relates to Ariel Levy’s article where she awes at the change of our society with statements such as, “Its stars who kept talking about “strong women” and “empowerment,” who were dressed in alternating soft-porn styles-- as massage parlor geishas, dominatrixes, yodeling Heidis in alpine bustiers”.

First of all, I come from a Hispanic culture and gender is one of the things that separates each individual from doing certain things. For instance, as a girl in my culture it looks wrong for a girl to use offensive words in public. It’s normal to hear men always being rude and using vulgar words. Girls are taught to be polite and use proper language. Indeed, in my family I always saw my brothers or cousin talk back to their parents and they were just punished. However, for girls it worked different. There was zero tolerance for talking back to an adult. It did not matter if it was your parents or not as long as it was an adult you talked back it was unacceptable. I come from a low socioeconomic status and I don’t think that the usage

The girls and the Native Americans both had the same attitudes towards their leaders. Not all the nineteenth century white people accepted the fact of compulsory education for their children. But more and more came to see the need for compulsion. Yet many narrators remembered the sporadic and often shocking attempts. We were all happy until a new menace occurred. Warm springs Apache sent by the government with his people to Florida. After the Geronimo campaign. The young Indian traveled part of the way to Carlisle. The accompanying officer and wife treated the Apache children

Thank you for sharing your discussion amongst your fellow classmates. “One of the more common identifiers that were a big topic in the past is that women are inferior, and shouldn’t hold any political, social or economic power.” The Native Americans have a term “Two-Spirit” that is usually used for those who consider themselves as transgender or similar to it. Even a women who seems to be a lot more masculine, gets married with a feminine women to balance out the plant gatherer and the hunter. That also is included to feminine males, would marry a masculine male and dress up as a women. The reason why I mentioned this, is due to the way you used your words in your discussion, as if all cultures the women is inferior. Granted, yes for the most

Out of the three groups, women, Native Americans and African Americans, I believe that the Native Americans gained the least in comparison to the women and the African Americans from the American victory in the Revolutionary war. During the war women had gained a lot more than the Indians or the African Americans. Some went to fight with the men others stayed home, ran farms and businesses, raised children and kept the household together. They gain more responsibilities that was usually meant for men.  This helped to grow a new confidence within women, they even stated a group called the Daughters of Liberty , just like the Sons of Liberty the joined in on harassing those who opposed the rebel. Women gained more freedom, power and recognition.

Ilucion Carlin who also goes by Carmen is a middle-class, nineteen-year-old student and employee I work with at kohls. She is a second generation American with a prominent Mexican background. Ilucion’s parents came to the United States from Mexico looking for a new start and a better education, her father came to the United States at the age of 16 and attended high school in the U.S to receive his diploma. While her mother came to the United States at the age of 19 looking to go to college, however, became pregnant and did not further her education. Since they came from Mexico, they brought along with them the culture and traditions, and it has been an integrative part of her growing up, and help her become who she is today. I choose to interview Ilucion because of her

Growing up as a female child, I was spoiled. I was and am still the last daughter of my parents. I was always showered with lots of gifts by relatives and neighbors around me. My parents made sure that their children were well taken care of. Meals and clothes were provided and we had no reason to beg for food or shelter from passersby. My father worked hard enough to bring my siblings and me to the United States and till today, I am thankful for that. By coming to the United States, I was able to figure out who I want to become in life and what I want to do with my life. For the past few years, I have heard stories from all over the world about how female children are treated horribly by both their loved ones and friends. Female children are considered “worthless” and are sometimes not acceptable in the society they live in.

Many people also argued that cosplay can be an act of obsession. Many fans of anime and manga want to cosplay their favorite characters. However, some people develop a certain obsession, where cosplay becomes an integral part of it. Teenagers who get more satisfaction in the world of cosplay than in real life would get addicted to the fancy world of cosplay. It is easy for the cosplayers to mix up the real world with the cosplay world.