Honour Killing

It might sound impossible that honor can be risks to people’s lives, nonetheless, it is true because some people can kill for the sake of protecting honor. For instance, some cultures in this world, specifically in Islamic cultures, they have this concept that relates to honor and violence. According to Robert Kiener, an award-winning writer, and editor from Cambridge University, he wrote in his article “Honor Killings” about the horrible truth of the honor killings. He explained how the females are treated in those cultures and stated that “..any female who commits or is suspected of committing an “immoral” act should be killed to “restore honor” to her family”(Kiener 183). This mostly happens to the Islamic community because they are a huge protector of honor and they value it greatly. Thus, they will do whatever they can just to preserve it, and it includes killing a family member. Considering this is a great example of how honor can be so dangerous for the civilization. It can cause people to think that in order to preserve honor, they can just threat, hurt, and kill people. Honor can lead to violence situations and it is unhealthy for the society and the

Well, honor is a thing to do in life. So yeah, that's all of honor. Next up, we are going to talk about courage. Because courage is a powerful word. Courage is the best solution to all things.

The definition of honor is the great respect, fairness, honesty to someone’s beliefs, (Dictionary.com). My view of honor is showing respect to someone and doing something for someone else before you. I believe that an example of someone who is honorable is the great German scientist Albert Einstein. Albert Einstein accomplished many great things that prove he was an honorable person.

Honor is a matter of carrying out, acting, and living the values of respect, duty, loyalty, selfless service, integrity and personal courage in everything you do. When you are in combat sometimes honor is all you can rely on. I am willing to die to keep my honor to my country and my family and my God. This is what distinguishes the United States Military apart from most countries military organizations. We put the honor of our country first and for most.

Honor. Or it could be honour. It does not matter how it is spelled, it means the same universally.

A Culture of Honor Throughout the United State and the world, there is a concept known as a culture of honor. In most society, a culture of honor it is common for people to avoid offending others intentionally and to maintain a reputation of not accepting improper conduct. This type of culture can commonly be seen in 4 types of environments: inner cities, frontier lands, southern United States, and conflict zones. People in these areas tend to take action for themselves since authority is either not trusted and/or not present. A culture of honor establishes how people handle conflict and disputes on their own without interference from legal authority.

In the case of military ethics killing is justifiable, through, saving your squads lives, killing someone trying to kill you, and protecting your country. “The right of a country to defend itself against aggression is recognized by both national and international laws” (Seker). This quote is important for it shows that it is legal to do, so if it is legal how is it not justifiable? “In the face of unjust aggression,

Everyone knows that character who lost his or her honor and needs to capture or kill the main character/characters to restore their honor. Military/family honor has many differences compared to movie/story honor, so this passage will talk about the tradition and loyalty that's is around military/family honor and compares to movie/story honor. In the end, you will see that honor is a well-used tradition and that there are many ways to earn honor in everyday life.

Foreign cultures can often be very intriguing but difficult to understand. Living in the United States does not expose us to the beliefs and ethics of cultures outside of our own, which makes it hard to study a foreign culture without judgement. Sociologist especially are expected to look at the world as a Cultural Relativist. This means that they should try to understand the cultural practice on the culture's own term and not on our own, and to cast no moral judgements upon them. However this can be difficult to do, especially when the practice sacrifices people's lives, such as Honor Killings. In this scenario, I believe it is acceptable to speak out against a culture's traditions and have an Ethnocentric view.

“No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.”- Calvin Coolidge. This quote is relatable to the fact that honor is highly regarded and people would take their lives than rather bring dishonor to that person’s family. In ancient Rome it was considered honorable to takes own life than bring dishonor to one’s family. What does honor truly mean? How was it considered honorable? What else could have the person done one instead of taking one’s life?

Living in the United States, the population as a whole tends to forget that not all cultures are as lenient and tolerable as their own. Many immigrants who now live inside the U.S. borders today try dearly to hold on to their customs. However admirable this may seem it can lead to grisly events. One issue that has arose due to immigrants’ desire to hold on to their beliefs is honor killing. Honor killings have had a major increase in the U.S. due to the immigration of many people from the Middle East and North Africa. So it has become the responsibility of the United States to work to end

There are multiple ways a person can obtain information about honor killings. This pathfinder gives you the best websites, but you can still find more information about this topic. You can search up just "honor killings" to get a wide variety of sources that vary from primary sources to videos sources. You can also search "honor killings stories" to get primary sources, which are mostly about the person who murdered their own family member. Also, different cultures have different views about honor killings, so I recommend to search for honor killings in a specific area or region. Sources about honor abuse can further your understand about honor killings, because honor killings fall under the category of honor abuse. Lastly, check to see

When I was five years old, the word “honor” didn’t have too much meaning. I was a little boy at the time, and I didn’t exactly know what honor was. To adults, I was like a cup of Froyo. I was sweet and cute at first, but once eaten, I was a fart in the air conditioning. For me, my honor was upheld by “saving my toys” from an evil stuffed dragon. For fun, I would hide a dragon and a teddy bear in a Lego castle, and throw clothing all over the floor to make it harder to reach. I would then save my teddy bear from the dragon, and throw the dragon in a Lego jail. I had honor among my toys. And for a five year old like me, that was all that mattered.

There are many things in life that are legal and moral in one culture but illegal and immoral in another. Cultures judge other cultures because they do not follow their own cultural beliefs, in a way they use their own culture as a measuring stick that all other cultures should measure up to, this idea is called ethnocentrism. It’s the belief that our own culture is normal. The concept of cultural relativism is to not judge the behavior of others using the standards of their own culture but that each culture must be judged and analyzed on its own terms according to its own culture. The view of ethnocentrism should only be used when the culture’s actions disturb ethics, morals and human rights.

Official documents have little say about women and children of the Partition as they were viewed as a collective. Earlier reports on the abduction of women only gave the reader the statistics and brief statements that glorified community nationalism rather than the victims itself. Many failed to dwell into the individual trauma of this particular group (Menon & Bhasin, 1998, p.11). Rani’s testimony was significant in that not only it opened us to another outlook from a witness point of view; it also revealed that people who were not physically involved were also affected psychologically. This was also the only part in the testimony where Rani displayed sympathy and grievance. Her sensitivity and deep connection with these victims correlated with age and gender. Her emphasis on the words ‘young’ and ‘girl’ throughout her testimony evoked our sense of disbelief that people would do such inhumane things to each other (cited in Butalia, 2000, p.271). Her hesitant manner, evident