DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

Domestic Violence

     People don’t talk about domestic violence, but there are a lot of women that experience abuse in their marriage. In my country, domestic abuse is very common. Women are the most abused and also children. Wives are always pointed to be disrespectful, and it their fault if something goes wrong.

       I was seventeen when I got married because I was pregnant. My father did not want me to get married so young, but I loved my husband and he loved me back; so I assured him that everything will be fine. My husband was eight years older than I, and was at the University. I had to go and live in the campus while we both go to school.

   For six months, we were so happy, and everything started when he did not pass the entrance for the law school. He made me believe I was responsible for his failure. I was beaten that day and lost my baby( I was seven month pregnant). I want to my parents, and I was unable to tell them the truth. One week later, my husband came to pick me up, asked for forgiveness. The mistake I made that day was to go back with him, and it was the beginning of my nightmare. I was beaten all the time, I lost two pregnancies. My family knew after seven years of marriage, and my brother had to help to come here in USA.

       The society where I came from is different from here. It is difficult to call the police for help. They might come or not. There are lot to do about domestic abuse, and people need to work together to erase it.

anti-muslim discrimination

     Anti-Muslin Discrimination

 Anti-muslin discrimination has been progressed since ten years after September 11^th, 2011. Much muslin

children were pointed in school, in the street, and sometimes in their home.

 My first friend when I came in this country was from Saudi Arabia. She and her older brother were born in their country, and her sister and brother here in USA. Ania got married when she was sixteen years old. With her religion and culture, she had to wear long skirt, a shirt that covers all her body, and veal in her head to hide her hair. She told me when she was in high school that she was all the time alone, nobody to talk to at school. Girls used to talk about her behind her back. Her older brother got into a fight because he was called “killer”. Her little sister was coming home from school crying because her school mate removed her veal.

      I don't deny that muslin culture is very harsh and weird, and sometimes we can discriminate them from us. But I don't beleive it is right to call a muslin kid "Ben Laden" or "Killer" in school because they are not responsible about their parents' actions. Everybody has the right to wear whatever you want to, and a teacher that discriminate in class is not considere a good teacher. He suppose to teach good manners not create separation between students.