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Posted By WikiMap 10 months, 3 weeks ago in NewsOne of the burning problems of the society is the dowry System. Apart from some other countries, Dowry System has most common in India and it is still practiced in Indian Society. It happens in many families rich or poor, educated or uneducated.
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orndorffter10 months, 3 weeks ago
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I'am an American Indian, and I'm glad I live in the USA. my Father was killed when I was 4 years old, I dont think that he would of acted like that my mother did'nt treat me like that and she told me how much my Father loved me, even thoe I was 4 I can remember him playing withme sliding down the hill on a peaceof tin roofing, and in the boat fishing with him. of course I did not catch any fish. But anyway I'am glad I live in the USA.
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memestryker10 months, 3 weeks ago
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It's going to take women to stop it. Since it isn't a problem for men, anything cultural or religious is described as "it's just their culture" or "it's just their religion." It's not. It's abusive and only women finally coming together will ever stop abuses against women.
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Women are obviously people, yet most world religions deny this in their own ways, and men come to think it's OK to abuse and use women on top of subjugating them, denying them education, and denying them access to work and fair pay.
I'm glad this girl felt brave enough to call the police. If a way of such calls occurs, this heinous behavior may be forced to end.-
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awongscreen10 months, 2 weeks ago
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Agree. "Culture" to a lesser degree is as harmful as "Religion". Both provide a platform for people in power as an excuse to justify wrong doings. People use their special status in their religion organisational ladder to twist religious scripts to their own benefits. Similarly, people regarded as higher social status according to their traditions use cultural preservation as a means to suppress others.
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orndorffter10 months, 3 weeks ago
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I was reading other storys and their comments, what I found was alot of bitterness. I ask of one thing not for me but for yourselfs,never be ashamed of who you are or what kind of blood that you have running through your vains or the color of your skin. I have the Indian blood and am Indian that I well never be ashamed of. There is a reason for why we are differnt but that makes us not less or better than anyone else, always be proud of the person you areor what nationality you are,we all have a history and should never be ashame of it, yous are all my friends and seem more like family to me. I had this on my mind and I wanted everyone to never feel bad or ashamed of you as a person, I'am proud of who I am, and I thank my mother and father for bring me into this world. I felt the need to say what I just said, and hope nobody gets mad at me for saying it, you dont know how much better I feel now.Bless all of you.
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memestryker10 months, 3 weeks ago
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Deborah Tannen wrote a book called "The Argument Culture." It's a way of being that many modern people are taught, so their discourse is more like verbal sniping than true conversation.
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I think a lot of us on propeller are ethnically mixed, especially Americans. I'm not sure what you perceive is bitterness so much as habitual one-uppance. It's part of business behavior, too, and people lock horns in their effort to climb corporate ladders. We live in a culture of competition.
And most of us came from cultures where males are given more freedom to control and women are frequently kept powerless. I know that when I was in high school, I was told to choose a career to "fall back on" when my kids entered school, while boys were encouraged to go for jobs that would allow them to be innovative, make money, etc.
Culture and belief are very slow to change.-
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orndorffter10 months, 3 weeks ago
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memestryker ; Very good comment, I also find myself locking horns, I do understand you, My frist marrige I was badly abused and he thought that what ever the man said goes, I was beat almost every day and night, staying away from my mother so she wouldn't see the black eyes and bruses all over me, fear kept me there, untell one night he walked in and I was setting on the couch with my children, he comes in picks up a lamp and holds me in the air going to strick me over the head, my oldest son was 7 years old and he got a butcher knife and throw it at his father verley missing him,so he turned on my son I took a ball bat and hit him across the back as hard as I could he was helpless at that time so I just began to fly into him, you dont touch my kids, me but not my kids.the police was called and like every time we can't get involved. that was the last time he or any man abused me,I divorced him and to this day my son well not have anything to do with him because they remember seeing all the bad things that he had done to me, there is much more but I can not say it over the internet. but I do understand, and like I said, I lock horns alot on here to. I think we all do.
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memestryker10 months, 2 weeks ago
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orndorffter, You had an epiphany and saw clearly the right action you needed to take for the well-being of yourself and your kids. That is truly to be applauded--you didn't let the fear and intimidation drive you. I hope your son finds the opportunity to heal from such horrific experiences and make peace within himself, if not with his father.
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And yes, I too purposely "lock horns" when I think it's important to do!
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Charlson10 months, 3 weeks ago
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Well, this gives a different meaning to looking for a woman with money to marry. It also illustrates the notion that many societies still view women as chatel to be bought and sold like property. And as long as women buy into this system, it will continue.
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antibrainwasher10 months, 3 weeks ago
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The entire muslim and fundamentalist christian and morman church considers women breeding livestock.
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Religion santifies tribalism, and the first thing that happens is women become subhuman livestock.
When religion is dead, inbreeding and tribalism will evaporate, and maybe humanity will survive. But considering that we here in the greatest military industrial power the word has ever produced, have a population so incrediby stupid as to vote for Creationist Caribu Barbie and McSenile Warmonger, 48% of the stupidest humans on the planet voted to give these two morons the button to the nuclear arsenal, I'm not holding out much hope.
Arabs are past hope, they are still breeding like rats, burka-ing all their women, and no end in sight. Their population will only be controlled by war or famine or disease. They are so completely inbred, its hard to imaging. One man having 50 children is nothing special. And mormans are no better, freaking psychotic inbred looney arseholes. Indians are freaks, billions having billions more, the population of this tribe of psychotic brainwashed scum will double in the next 50 years, and they already live in leper colonies with open sewers.
Dowery is just one symptom of a sick inbred society. F 'em all, I hope they all vanish in a mushroom cloud. -
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lvrofwolves10 months, 3 weeks ago
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The other night there was a reality TV show on called Wife Swap. the one family, the father was totally into the wife being home, looking good for him and doing all the 'woman's work' He said that his wife got and sold him on her looks, and he expected her to stay looking good for him. The family put their 13mo old little baby girl in those beauty pageants, they only really cared that their 2 children won all competitions, the Father and little boy actually cried when the little baby didn't win.
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So the visiting wife asked the father, do you want your little baby girl to grow up and be some man's accessory?? he actually said, she would be some man's accessory. He said society tells people what they must do, and they've got to do it. His wife went to stay with the other family and he was a stay at home Dad,taking care of 2 little girls, doing all the house work etc....she called him all kinds of names,said he wasn't a real man,a wus,emasculated, pathetic excuse for a man etc....VERY superficial family. I imagine they'd fit right into the dowry system very well, basically selling off your Daughters to the highest bidder, like property. So I guess there are still people in that mind frame, even here in America.-
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Newperson10 months, 3 weeks ago
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I agree it is sad some men treat women like that I stoped going over to a guys house because he talked down to his wife in front of me guess it made him feel like a big man.
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I called him to the side and said something he said he was kiding and he was sorry.
will I told him he should apologize to his wife not me. I don't need friends like that and told him so.
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