Approaching various aspects of the world seems very interesting to me because there are so many different types of things throughout the world. Since my major is social work I enjoy learning about all the different customs of people also I would like to learn how children get treated in various aspects. With America being one of the largest nations, and all the different backgrounds that make up the population there are many different customs and beliefs to know. An example is how females are treated throughout the world; some are required to get married at a young age and start a family. However in America a female must be eighteen years old, but in some cases she can be sixteen.
Also another important thing is how children are seen through a public eye whether it’s through commercials, movies, books or music. Often children can play both a negative or positive position throughout their roles. In music such as hip hop or rap, artists reminisce about their own childhoods how they had a very hard upbringing with a mother who worked hard and a father that was not really there. Many of them turned to negative things in order to help their mothers providing food or paying bills. In movies children sometimes play the tradition child one who listens to their parents and just wants to do children things. However there are some movies that portray children who are completely opposite and never listen to their parents.
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I think it is very respectable that you are going into social work. You seem to be very passionate about the subject and have a lot of different examples of how women and children are portrayed in the world as well as in the media. It is very sad how women in other countries lack the rights and freedoms that sometimes American women take for granted, and I feel like this is a great issue to address and hopefully someday, resolve.
ReplyDeleteI agree very much with Holly--your passion and knowledge here is wonderful to see. I also think it would be really cool if some of your research in this class could focus on representations of children--maybe that's where it's headed? Research in that direction could work toward the sort resolution that Holly alludes to above.
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