I am sure that you will be shock because of my entry's tittle. It was true in Vietnam very long time ago. The Vietnamese women did not have any right in their family even they were not allowed to go to school. Every body thought that women just stayed at home, gave children and took care of family. So it no need for women to study.
There is a famous proverb in Vietnam that is, "When the women are home, they have to follow their father. When they get married, they have to follow their husband. And when their husband passed away, they have to follow their son." I mean the Vietnamese women who lived in an unfair society had to follow the men in their family. Moreover, they could not eat in the same table with their husband but in the kitchen because they were almost slave in their family. One more thing was that they had to give at least one son. If they just gave daughter, their husband would divorce them and marry to a new wife who could give sons for them.
Nowadays, Vietnamese women have more right in their family. We can go to school and have a job. There are a lot of women who can earn much money then their husband. I was born in a fair society and I am so happy about that. I even don't know what I should do if I were born in that periods.
I don't know a lot about American history. I just know that, American women have a lot of rights here. Maybe they are more important than men. I am sure that you at least one time have heard that, "Ladies first". Yeah, I love that. In addition, husband and wife both have to work and take care their family. And women have their own right to decide some problems in their family.
Do you think it is better?
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Yes, I agree. In Korea, There is a famous proverb "Man is sky, woman is land" how stupid it was!
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure that women in western cultures were ever as much like slaves as you describe, but certainly women had a lot less freedom and equality in the past in the U.S., too. In fact, the inequalities are still not completely gone. I hope they will disappear for all of us!
ReplyDeleteNot even in eastern but also western society I think there has been the cincept that men should have more activity in their society. And that kind of concept would affect to the tendency what you were talking about. But nowadays, like you said, more women is getting higher degree and status in their societies. It is surely good situation, I think.
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