Violence Towards Women in Tibet Essay

The Tibetans and the Navajo Native Americans are from different cultures. The Tibetan’s have lived intertwined with China for centuries. They tried to free themselves from China rules yet they failed. The 14th Dalai Lama fled China and found exile in India. China to this day has total control over Tibetan people. “Using all the tools of repression to deter and punish Tibetan resistance” as stated on Free Tibet. The people of Tibet are dedicated to the Dalai Lama. The monks and nuns play a vital part in the community, furthermore they are viewed as teachers and mentors. The Chinese did not want the Dalai Lama to have the followers that he had. If a person how any paraphernalia of the Dalai Lama could lead to their incarceration and or torture. The Chinese monitors and controls the religious aspects in Tibet. Consequently, the Chinese government found the devotion of the Tibetans to the Dalai Lama as a danger to their political goals. By way of contrast with the conflict with the Chinese government, the monks live a simple life. The Tibetan monks believes in the liberation of all being, personal enlightenment, compassion and nature around us.

Polygamy continues to be frowned upon greatly in the United States despite the recent steps toward legalizing different marriage arrangements and polygamy’s attempt to go mainstream with television shows that give the outside world an inside view of their lifestyle. In Tibet, however, polyandry (a form of polygamy) has been a part of the culture for as long as anyone can remember and does not seem to be going anywhere anytime soon. In the article, “When Brothers Share a Wife” by Melvyn C. Goldstein, polyandry is explored in all aspects, including age, dynamics, and purpose.

“In 1949 35,00 Chinese troops invaded Tibet.”This was put into detail in an article by Hisyam Takiudin.The Chinese raped,tortured,and murdered one fifth of the Tibetan population,most in work camps and during arbitrary.As a result,47 million people in all have died during these tragic times. The brutality was so bad that the parents with children were forced to bury their children alive when they disobeyed.These crimes have lasted 49 years! Evidently,these crimes are still being committed! In Tibet today there is still no freedom of speech,religion, and arbitrary detainment still continues. As Tibetans are being slaughtered,we’re sitting here doing

From the beginning, the Tibetan women have been viewed by males in the culture as a type of second class citizen, even to the point that women were described negatively. The Tibetan women were also seen as seductresses from a man's point of view and were not considered to have the spiritual ways to become enlightened. Questions that will be addressed are since the women take the brunt of the responsibilities, why are they treated as a second class citizen? Why is it that Tibetan women are considered not equal even though they work just as hard or harder as the Tibetan men? Do the men of Tibet fear that the women may have the intelligence to further themselves than what they give credit and continue to keep the women underneath the men?

As Anthropologist Kimber McKay challenged the world’s outlook on what we believe to be a traditional, normal marriage, I was intrigued by the results of her fieldwork that displayed the different types of marriages occurring around the world. In her research in the Nepalese Himalaya, she lived within the community of polyandrous people participating in their daily life. In Humla, it was common for a polyandrous woman to marry a man and his brothers. McKay shared a video from a polyandrous woman that described the relationship she had with her two husbands. Here are her words: “If the husbands agree with it (polyandry) then it’s good. One can take care of the local work and the other can do outside work.” I hypothesize the reason polyandry

Many women suffer around the world and have trouble gaining equal rights. Countries such as: Iran (where women have to cover their face and legs), Saudi Arabia (where women can not be in public without their face covered), and France (where you can not cover your face in public), have strict rules about what clothing women can wear (Bruce-Lockhart) (Kim). Women have been suffering and fighting for rights around the world for centuries. Some of the many major issues that they fought for or are still fighting for now are the right to vote, the political and economical power the women are limited to, and the right to and education.

Though by the third stage (1100-1600 C.E) most women lost their rights. Nevertheless, they did still fight on battlefields with males but male dominance over the females became more prominent. They did fight for their rights; fighting for their inheritance rights, as well as taking charge of their own lives rather than their male counterparts. Though by the fourth and fifth stage; women were seen as the women in Indus Valley. Parents, just like in China, thought the having a sob borne into your family was a great blessing; they were spoiled and pampered rather than their female relatives who had to listen to their elders and brothers.

The article Polyandry: When Brothers Take a Wife by Melvyn C. Goldstein is about different types of marriages fraternal polyandry which is when a women is married to brothers and they live and share their land together. It explains how the brothers are fathers to all the children and they do not try to figure out who the biological father is. Then the older brother is the authority figure mostly for the children and the wife. This type of marriage is common in Tibet just like in America monogamy is the only allowed form of marriage. This type of marriage is used primarily so that land is not split and duties can be shared between the husbands and it’s a way that the family can live without having to in poverty as bad because they can get

Throughout the history of the world, many races, religions, genders, sexuality and many more have been oppressed for doing something out of the norm. But women have gotten hit the hardest of them all. In almost all cultures of the world; women were little more baby factories, and their only purpose was to keep house and child. Prejudice against anybody is based off nothing, and can lead to a much worse encounter. The women of ancient China were hardworking, but all wanted to be a housewife forever; certainly not Hua Mulan.

Why don’t women have the same rights as men? In “The Danger of a Single Story” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, “My Father Writes to My Mother” by Assia Djebar, and “Baby You Can Drive My Car” by Janine di Giovanni, the authors expressed how women are mistreated and aren’t allowed to have equal rights. They each reveal different stories, but they all have a similar meaning. Women all around the world are forced to follow the rules that society wants them to abide by. The role of women in middle and southeast Asia doesn’t have to stay the same forever.

The People’s Liberation Army, during the early years of the People’s Republic of China, invaded Tibet due to its rich mineral resources and its tangential historical relationship with China. The current Dalai Lama was extremely young and just recently installed, making his life analogous to the struggles of the Tibetan people. After various early struggles for independence between the Tibetan people and China, the Dalai Lama was forced to flee into exile. Since then he has been espousing a vision for Tibet encompassing autonomy within China. Mishra’s article also discusses the governmental, social, and cultural aspects of the Dalai Lama’s life and the Tibetan independence movement. But, perhaps most important, the piece emphasizes the Dalai Lama’s modernistic and progressive attitudes, including a belief that he might be the last Dalai Lama as he considers the institution to have “outlived its

Although all types of abuse of Afghan women have been present since the 1980’s, the worst of it has happened from 1996 to present time. The reason abuse of Afghan women has increased in a worse way since 1996, is because that is when the infamous Taliban gained power in Afghanistan. The Taliban is a radical Islamic terror group that was founded and operated in Afghanistan. Ever since the Taliban gained power in Afghanistan, women have received terrible forms of abuse that is accepted in the eyes of the Taliban. In 2012, a former Afghan warlord admitted, “Women were treated like dogs in my province” (Afghan. 1-2). Although the Taliban have been in power ever since 1996, much of the abuse of Afghan women has happened very recently. In 2013, a United Nations report claimed that there was a 20 percent increase in violence and mistreatment of women in Afghanistan. The annual report on the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflicts says more than 300 women were brutally killed and 560 injured

Mongolian women had many rights like right to divorce and own property. This was among the

In Pakistan's patriarchal society, the norms of females and males are set up by the family. Husbands and the fathers are considered as guardians of women and hence the decision making power lies within their hands. Whatever property is owned by the family, the inheritance rights lie with the sons only. Male members are always considered central in ancestry, while women discrimination continues from the scratch only. In the process, under which a girl transforms in to a women and till her death, she is exploited to every extent; i.e. mentally as well as physically. From her birth only she is neglected by her family and she can stay at her father's place only till the time she is not married. Very rarely it happens that adult

In the western world, the only legal marriage is mon-og-o-mous, one between two individuals. The concept of pol-ig-o-my; more than two people in a marriage may seem strange, yet alone polyandry, where two or more brothers share a wife. Fraternal marriages however, are not unusual for people of Tibet decent, a country close to Nepal, and is in fact the most popular kind of kinship. Two or more Tibet brothers popularly choose to share a wife, workload, children and live under the same roof for the remainder of their lives. (CHANGE SLIDE)