The Personal Side of Bias, Prejudice, and Oppression

Living in South Korea I had a hard time dealing with the way women are treated.  The value is of little significance.  The women are there to take care of the children, house and the men.  If an as women married an American male who had children (female) they treated that child as if she was a threat to the relationship.  

 

This oppression diminished the equity between the male and female race; making the male more superior.  These women were oppressed as they were not allowed to speak up unless directed.   The women automatically knew their places in society.  As a woman of the western culture, this is what we were called, it made my skill crawl to see how they treated the women and to know the little girls were going to grow up the same way.

The feels this brought up for me was that of anger, resent, the who do they think they are syndrome, and if it were not for the women they wouldn’t exist either.  For anyone to think they are more superior to the next is pure ignorance.  Men could not survive without women in the world; they need to get over themselves. 

What and or who that would have to change would be society and history.  History has made its mark on the culture and now only society can change the way things are passed from generation to generation.  When there society realizes that everyone is human and should be treated equal only then will the opportunity for greater equity be seen.