Heterosexual Natural And Homosexual Aberrant Axiom

On the matter of violence, many soldiers who returned from the Vietnam War hold “Something quiet and untouchable” and “…knew things they’d never say, did things on the sly you’d never discover”. The opening passage sets a sinister tone that carries on through the text, and

The historical fiction Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford is an almost quintessential illustration of the idea that love can exist anywhere without parameters. Clearly, this idea is seen with the relationship between Henry Lee, a Chinese American boy residing in Seattle, and Keiko Okabe, a Japanese American girl who falls victim to the atrocious Japanese American internment policy put forth by the United States government during World War 2. Despite the clashes and deep-seated hatred both of their Old World cultures had for one another, Henry and Keiko developed a relationship that transgressed such feelings of animosity. As the plot of the novel progresses, it becomes apparent to the audience that certain items are pivotal when influencing the course of the novel. Without these significant aspects in play, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet most likely would have taken a route disparate from the original course of the novel. Let us scrutinize these items so that we may better understand their vital importance to the story line.

War is woven into the familial aspects of this novel. It not only separated families, but also separated Vietnam itself, dividing the people and therefore compromising the idea of unity and cultural identity. The Vietnam War left a residue of resentment

There are two distinctly different and contradictory societies in Vietnam: Saigon and the rest. “Saigon and Vietnam are as different, almost literally, as night and day.” (para. 6)

Nam Le's “Love and Honor and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice” is a story about a male student trying to write a creative writing paper for his college class. The student, also named Nam, is suffering from writers block when his father comes to visit him. Le tells of Nam's struggle with the issue of whether he should write about his father's accounts of his survival during My Lai, and the Vietnam prison camps during the Vietnam War. “Love and Honor” talks of many issues surrounding ethnic literature, such as: 'authenticity', exploitation, who can write ethnic literature, and what could be described as a personal narrative. One of the obvious things in “Love and Honor” is the relationship between the father and the son, how neither of them actually knows enough about the other to understand each other, and also how the son trying to become something better with his life is something that the father both wants and doesn't want for his son.

On View of Homosexuality Continuum, I probably be 4.5. For me 4.5 mean when you see some who is a homosexual, you say it’s their business, so I don’t care. Because I’m not the one who have to deal with God for loving someone who is the same sex as you

​Etymologically, the word homosexual is a hybrid of Greek and Latin words, thus connoting acts of sexual behavior between members of the same sex. The word ‘homosexual’ is controversial in itself as it refers to only one’s sexual behavior as opposed to the romantic feelings and thus, people attribute the term ‘gay’ and ‘lesbian’ as appropriate. Homophilia, also means the love and sensibilities between the same sex people.

Heteronormativity is known as the belief that “heterosexuality is the only normal and natural expression of sexuality (Merriam-Webster).” While homosexuality is becoming more accepted in today’s society, heteronormativity is still a prominent issue in the media and life at home. There are various opinions on heteronormativity, some believing that it is not an issue and others believing it is alienating gay individuals. Although it does not affect the majority of households and individuals in the U.S, a solution to heteronormativity would benefit LGBTQ individuals who feel isolated from the rest of society.

The topic of discussion for this chapter is sexual orientation. The chapter mainly discusses the different concepts of the terms natural and unnatural, along with definitions of the terms within religion and science. I for one do not find anything wrong or unnatural about someone being LGB+. A person should not be discriminated against based solely on their sexual orientation, they are like everyone else, the only difference is they show interest in the same sex or both. Anyone who is part of the LGBT+ community should not be forced to hide who they are in fear of what others might think/do or made to feel ashamed of themselves. Within the text under the subtitle Behavior and Identity the quote “Love the sinner, hate the sin” is mentioned,

Although she loved her family she also hated them, particularly her mother. The setting of French Indochina in the 1930’s to 1980’s time period helps the reader to understand the archetypes

Fanon’s (1967) essay on the presence of the black male body as a threat to the colonial white subject leads itself well to a parallel phenomenological relationship of the queer male cruiser as a threat to the homophobe. I draw my reader’s attention to the powerful interpellation, ‘Look, a Negro!’ (p. 109). Within the context of racist colonialism, these words, as Fanon remarks, rip him from himself and reconstitute him as a ‘corporeal mal- ediction’ (p. 111) cast into the world of objects as object. In that world of racialized objects, the black male body, argues Fanon, is ‘a stimulus to anxiety’, a ‘phobogenic object’ (p. 151) to the white subject. He is ‘fixed’ (p. 109) by the gaze of the white sub- ject, reduced to a state of abject objectification.

the “enemy”. This intrusion of American elements replaces not only Chinese elements, but also the Vietnamese cultural identity.

In David Henry Hwang’s play, M. Butterfly manifests three keywords that have a profound meaning: Race, Gender, and Orientalism.

Homosexuality is defined as a predominant sexual attraction to persons of the same gender. For example, men being sexually attracted to other men and women being sexually attracted to other women (Exodus Global Alliance, 2017). Heterosexuality however, is the opposite of homosexuality. A heterosexual person has a sexual attraction to a person of the opposite sex, as opposed to an individual of the same sex. In Western society, heterosexuality has been constructed to be viewed as the norm, this however was not always the case. Sociologist Michel Foucault coined the term ‘homosexuality’ arguing that homosexuality was not discovered but produced. “Homosexuality appeared as one of the forms of sexuality when it was transposed from the practice of sodomy onto a kind of interior androgyny, a hermaphrodism of the soul.” Following on from the invention of the term known as homosexuality, medical doctors invented a counter-position, heterosexuality. Although same-sex relationships existed prior to the invention of this terminology, it encouraged people to identify themselves and others differently (Angel Daniel Matos, 2013). As a result, the judgment of gender and

Through a shared understanding, the topic the poem discusses is the history in slave trade that broke apart the foundations of a family; Families that made up communities, disrupted by the superiority of a dominant culture. Diminishing their history as an individual into nothing but property. The emotions that surface the families are disregarded by their owners, the families valuing their love for one another; the only value that is considerable now is monetary.