A Response to Susan Moller Okin’s Article: “Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?”
A Response to Susan Moller Okin’s Article:
“Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?”
My response to Susan Moller Okin’s article titled “Is multiculturalism good for women?” can be summed up in the following essay, in which I firmly argue in favor of Okin’s stance on the point that a blind reliance and shallow adherence to multiculturalism can lead to horrible abuses against whom it intends to protect, and that, in fact, multiculturalism, in that sense, is bad for women and the advancement of women’s right movements.
Liberal democracy is trying to be good to minority, so what they are trying to do is that the regime attempts to accept cultural differences and tries to promote multiculturalism. But sometimes, you have to ask the question, is “multiculturalism actually good for the women in these minorities?” Because many times some of the traditions and values that these minorities cultures have may actually be “bad” traditions that are essentially working to perpetuate oppressive ways of living for their female members within the community, and therefore inherently harmful to women. So in allowing these pockets of cultures to exist and respecting their cultural rights, the state might just be actively promoting the oppression of women in the long run.
Susan Moller Okin’s argument rightly pointed out that multiculturalism is merely the regime that allows such tolerance to rightfully exist in the society, that for the reason of a cultural respect, the society is—on the other hand—working to further curtail the progressive change for women in oppressive societies.
One of the most obvious examples that Okin used was the culture in which women who are raped and then forced to be married to her rapist because her culture says that sexual intercourse is exclusive for only her husband, and strictly interpreting from that line of logic, her rapist, whom she has had intercourse with, even when against her view, is dictated by her culture to be her most rightful husband for
“Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?”
My response to Susan Moller Okin’s article titled “Is multiculturalism good for women?” can be summed up in the following essay, in which I firmly argue in favor of Okin’s stance on the point that a blind reliance and shallow adherence to multiculturalism can lead to horrible abuses against whom it intends to protect, and that, in fact, multiculturalism, in that sense, is bad for women and the advancement of women’s right movements.
Liberal democracy is trying to be good to minority, so what they are trying to do is that the regime attempts to accept cultural differences and tries to promote multiculturalism. But sometimes, you have to ask the question, is “multiculturalism actually good for the women in these minorities?” Because many times some of the traditions and values that these minorities cultures have may actually be “bad” traditions that are essentially working to perpetuate oppressive ways of living for their female members within the community, and therefore inherently harmful to women. So in allowing these pockets of cultures to exist and respecting their cultural rights, the state might just be actively promoting the oppression of women in the long run.
Susan Moller Okin’s argument rightly pointed out that multiculturalism is merely the regime that allows such tolerance to rightfully exist in the society, that for the reason of a cultural respect, the society is—on the other hand—working to further curtail the progressive change for women in oppressive societies.
One of the most obvious examples that Okin used was the culture in which women who are raped and then forced to be married to her rapist because her culture says that sexual intercourse is exclusive for only her husband, and strictly interpreting from that line of logic, her rapist, whom she has had intercourse with, even when against her view, is dictated by her culture to be her most rightful husband for