Culture Shock

In the year 2008, Hilary Clinton will be the first woman running for president. Travel to the Middle East and say that people would never believe you. A woman, in their eyes, is property for them to handle at their will. It's not as if men just discriminate against woman, they create laws to restrict the things that woman can do. For example, when Geraldine Brooks tries to rent a room, the hotel receptionist says "But you are a woman..I can't give you a room. It is against the law for woman."(p1) That amazes me that a hotel would refuse to rent out a room to someone because of their sex. It reminds me of in Remeber the Titians when a restuarant refuses service to two men because they are black. It seems ridiculous to us now if anyone was to refuse someone service because of any dicrimantory reasons, but back then it was completely acceptable. It is the same way in the Middle East. Everyone accepts these certain ideas about woman because that's just how it is. In the Holocaust, same idea. The Jewish were lower than everyone else because that's the belief that was spread. It's so funny how easily people are influenced and how people can just believe the ideas they are forced to believe. People are affected by each other and their surroundings. The idea that woman are below men is just simply common sense in their part of the world, and personally, I think its outrageous to think that any person is below anyother human being.
LB