Its Not an Oxymoron

My minds wanders to many different questions when I was reading this article, questions like How is this different than many different cultures around the world?  As to suppose to how women are viewed in all cultures of the world. And is there a place in the world whereas women are viewed as the head of the household? And if not, why would things change now? Yes, women opinions should be heard, as a women I will stand up for that matter, however my opinion will never change that we will never be valued completely the same as men. We have to look at the facts there has not been one woman president, women can get a same job as a man, but we will never be valued the same. We are still seventy cents to their dollar. Will we ever get the equality rights that we are still fighting for since the women committee to let us have the right to vote in the 1940's? Can we be compared to man in equality? This goes back to the times of the bible where it was conveyed that a woman was made from the help of a man. And because that is what we are taught as a child sticks with us, and most people still have that mentally today. Hopefully one day we will get equal rights, but we need to be careful because at the end of the day men still rule everything around us.

Borderlands

              In class today, we discussed the chapter in the book Borderlands, it mainly pointed out the question of the author's identity, culture, and ideas of how that mixture comes alive in the authors point of view. I found it very interesting how the author expresses her opinion that she should express her ideas in any language that she pleases. She has a Latina background, and she wants to be able to have writings that are published in Spanish, English, or even a mixture of both. She explains that the United States of America is robbing her of her culture because in the education systems, they were giving her classes to lose her accent. With all this occurring she also has to keep in mind that she was born in the US. So why is the educational systems going against her?
             That makes a connection to myself because I wasn't born in this country, neither of my family that is here as well. As a young age I was forced to loose my Jamaican accent because it didn't identify as " proper English". Both I do still try to  hold on to my culture as much as I can. Does this mean I have abide by the saying " When in Rome, do what the Romans do?"