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I have continued reading more of the "Ties that Bind, Ties that Break" (by Lensey Namioka).  In this part of Ailin's story, her father has passed away and now it's her Big Uncle who's in charge. Ailin is well aware that her Big Uncle doesn't like the fact that she is going to a missionary school, and now that her father is gone no one will pay for the tutoring fees. She now knows that it is more likely that she will stop going to school permanently. One day her Big Uncle summoned her to discuss her future and he gave her three choices: to become a nun, a farmer's wife, or a concubine of the Feng family. But Ailin decides to take another path and become an Amah for the Warner family; her Big Uncle accepts her choice and she is sent off to live with them.  At first everything starts off pretty well and she is treated very well by the Warner family, who give her Western clothes to wear and a large empty room. But after a few weeks of worki...

Today I read an article about the many executions of people in the Philippines because of apparent drug dealing. This is because  President Rodrigo Duterte’s declaration to start a "war on drugs" .  Many people, from children as young as 4 and 5 to adults, have been executed in their homes by the police because they had been accused of drug dealing. They were all killed without any strong evidence or investigation into the situation. Moreover, they weren't even given a fair trial to prove themselves guilty or innocent. I do understand that buying, selling or using drugs are highly illegal, but being killed on the spot without a fair trial or a proper investigation is unacceptable and is very naive. The government is making a very foolish decision by killing their own citizens without any proper evidence. Furthermore, by executing so called "drug dealers" is not preventing the dealing of drugs in Philippines. In relation to the situation, Sri Lanka surpr...

Today I read an article about child marriage in Thailand and how it effects the young girls both physically and mentally.  Girls that are around the age of 12 are forced to get married with a Malaysian man who is usually many years older than she is, sometimes the men are 20 years older or more. These men tend to already have one or two wives already.   The latest case of child marriage is with a girl called Ayu 11 years old and a man  Che Abdul Karim Che Hamid 41 years old with two wives. After going through the marriage process in Thailand, the imam, who is the person who confirms the marriage is legal under laws of the sharia, gave  Che Abdul Karim Che Hamid a warning not to have any sexual relations with his teen wife. But after medical inspections, it was clear that he did not do as told. This is commonly seen in South Thailand, where a young child is married to a man much older than her and eventually gets raped by her husband. They continue to get ...

I found a news article about one of the most well-known act that Gandhi has done to fight for India's rights. In the years that Gandhi has helped India fight for independence, he has used some strategies that many people globally should learn today.  In 1930, when the British decided to tax the Indians for salt and announced that making, collecting and selling salt was illegal, it affected all of the Indian people and Gandhi decided to take action against this unnecessary and cruel act.  Gandhi gathered a group of people who also disagreed on the British government's decision and began to march and protest from Western India to Dandi, where they would make salt out of saltwater. They protested in a non-violent way, which means that killing, fighting or any other violent acts were not involved. They marched across India, slowly gathering up more people to protest with them and soon they were an unarmed army of thousands of people. As they reached the Dandi, the...

Recently I have been reading a social injustice book called "Ties That Bing, Ties That Break". It is a story focusing on the ancient Chinese tradition of rich Chinese women binding their feet so that they're feet are petite and what they would call "lady-like" back in the days. This is started when the women are still children at the age of around 3-5, it is a very painful process. But there is one girl by the name of Ailin who refuses to get her feet bind.  At the point of the story that I am currently in, Ailin has gotten her feet bounded once but she had escaped the other times as her father decided to stand on her side and not allow her feet to be bound. She starts attending schools that were conducted by missionaries. This is considered a very irresponsible act because Chinese girls were not supposed to go to school, even so her father insists on putting her in the school because he also believes that China will soon change and start to improve, they ...