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1. Is violence ever a good idea?
I wish that we didn't have to have violence in this world, it would be so much nicer without it. However, I think that it is sometimes necessary and there is no way we can get around it. If people could just learn to talk about their issues with one another instead of getting violent, this world would be a much better place. So therefore, I don't think violence is ever a good idea, I think it's just a lame excuse for not talking about your problems.
2. List the privileges you share with McIntosh. What disadvantages do you experience?
As a white woman, I have been given many of the privileges that McIntosh talks about. I was lucky enough to grow up in a household where I recieved everything I needed...as well as most of the things I wanted. After readying McIntosh's list of white privileges, I realized many privileges I experience as a white person that I have never noticed before. Race has never been an issue for me in any aspect of my life, and it is something that I have taken for granted at times.
3. Compare Satrapi's relationship with her family and nation/s to Moraga's relationship with her family and nation/s.
Satrapi is close with her family. Her family wants to protect her by sending her out of the country to grow up in a nation without the oppression that Iran puts on women. They understand her need and desire to fit into mainstream culture and give her the freedom to do so. Moraga on the other hand, is not very close with her family. She is forced to be alone in her explorations of herself as a woman and of her society. In the end, Satrapi realizes that she needs to be with her family and Moraga decides that she doesn't need to be with her family.
-Alyssa
I wish that we didn't have to have violence in this world, it would be so much nicer without it. However, I think that it is sometimes necessary and there is no way we can get around it. If people could just learn to talk about their issues with one another instead of getting violent, this world would be a much better place. So therefore, I don't think violence is ever a good idea, I think it's just a lame excuse for not talking about your problems.
2. List the privileges you share with McIntosh. What disadvantages do you experience?
As a white woman, I have been given many of the privileges that McIntosh talks about. I was lucky enough to grow up in a household where I recieved everything I needed...as well as most of the things I wanted. After readying McIntosh's list of white privileges, I realized many privileges I experience as a white person that I have never noticed before. Race has never been an issue for me in any aspect of my life, and it is something that I have taken for granted at times.
3. Compare Satrapi's relationship with her family and nation/s to Moraga's relationship with her family and nation/s.
Satrapi is close with her family. Her family wants to protect her by sending her out of the country to grow up in a nation without the oppression that Iran puts on women. They understand her need and desire to fit into mainstream culture and give her the freedom to do so. Moraga on the other hand, is not very close with her family. She is forced to be alone in her explorations of herself as a woman and of her society. In the end, Satrapi realizes that she needs to be with her family and Moraga decides that she doesn't need to be with her family.
-Alyssa
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