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Feminization of the Man's World

Out of my 18 years of life, I have never really experienced any extreme sexism, other than the occasional catcall or "mansplain". But that isn't the case for other people in the United States and other places around the world. When I traveled to Guatemala I learned a lot about the sexism and violence that women deal with everyday. UN Women puts into perspective what they go through. "Women in Guatemala represent 51.2% of the total 15.8 million, estimated in 2014"..."Only 2% of municipalities are run by women; more than 4,000 girls 10-14 years of age give birth every year, and 759 women died by violence in 2013," (UNWomen). This connects to the article we read in class about Seoul, South Korea and the extreme sexism and violence that women face everyday. One of the women interviewed for the article said "we don't have guns, but its more dangerous in the home. The notion that Korea is safe only applies to the streets." The article then goes
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Cultural Appropriation

Two summers ago I traveled to Antigua Guatemala with a program called Global Visionaries. This is where I first heard the term "global citizen" and where I first learned what people think it means to be a global citizen and it began my thinking into what I think a global citizen is. A question that has been with me since those two weeks in Guatemala is, how do I not feel guilty for having the privilege that I was born with, that was handed to me solely because I'm white and live in a first world country? It has taken me a while to think of some kind of answer and I'm 100% sure it will change as I learn more about the world and everything around me, but for now my answer is that I need to use my white privilege to do what I believe is "good" for the world. I think that my best chance of doing this is by traveling, and creating what Manfred Steger calls "cultural constellations" (Eitzen pg.149). I brought up the term cultural constellation in my re
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