Personally Political

Reading about Third World Feminism, I noticed that it said in the article, for them, it is personally political. It’s come to my understanding that Third World women are still stuck or still follow their own customs and that settles the differences.

It is clearly evident that there are so many people still from the Third World in America who follow to the same mind set: women take care of the house and children.

I have visited the Philippines, Cebu in an island called Barilli. I was able to meet beautiful young ladies who were already to be married at the age of sixteen! They have not met their future spouse but their parents have already found them a suitable partner and after, the ladies would stop attending school.

It disturbed me to see teenage girls learning to adapt to this custom at such a young age when they have so much they can do, so much to learn and explore. But what can I say, just like what Mohanty said, we all have different surroundings; we have a different way of living here and around the world.

Asian countries like Korea or Japan also have that mindset, that women are to serve the men within the household. Women are to be elegant and appealing, submissive to men.

This article got me to think of how the Third World has a different perspective.

Because we are all so diverse, and we have our own backgrounds, experiences. We have our own share in such variations of different ethnicities, conflictual histories as we all share struggles within the American walls.

Third World women, however, share traditions, culture, a race, a nation. They seem to be “okay” with just “modernizing” the Third World.

It’s interesting when comparing and distinguishing the facts from these different perspectives of feminism, but it all comes down to how similar women can be as well; women face politics through they daily lives, and yet are not recognized for it.