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1a. Domestic Violence is similar in India, Japan, Vietnam and Africa because they all have some type of domestic violence in their country but it differs because each country has their own form of violence. There is family violence, which means that in a household child abuse and wife battering occur on a regular basis? In Japan wife battering happens when the husband beats his wife on a regular basis and usually it first starts out with a hit and then sometimes it can lead to a deadly assault. Then there is just plain of’ domestic violence that occurs in African and Vietnam. Wife battering is common in industrial countries such as Japan and the United States because even though the United States isn’t as organized as Japan that doesn’t mean that wife battering doesn’t happen. It mostly happens because the women will try to get out of an abusive relationship by breaking up or getting a divorce but that’s when the real beating starts. The man is not ready to let go yet and he takes his anger out on his women. Or it could be that the man is so tired and stressed out from work and one little thing like forgetting to make dinner could lead the women in very rough shape. Even though there are laws in the United States for wife battering it still happens and Japan needs to get recognized with the problem they are having with wife battering.

2. Most women in these countries never complain about domestic violence because for fear that if their husband or boyfriend were to find out they would hurt them. They also think that it happens a lot they think it is normal so there is no need to report it to anyone, it’s no big deal. They think that it is an ‘everyday affair’ so there is no need to report it. The individual, legal, historical and cultural factors help explain the silence of women, because in India it is historical and cultural to have a boy. So if the wife has a boy for a child they don’t have to worry about getting beat. If you plan to have birth control 9 chances out of 10, you are going to get beaten. Form of birth control is considered bad in India.It’s the sociological expectations. The indiviual factor is that it’s ok that the man beats his wife when he’s drunk because he is drunk he can’t control anything, he doesn’t know what he is doing. If he doesn’t drink and beat someone, he is a wonderful kind man.

3. When Leeder urges the reader to suspend “any ethnocentric value judgements” about family violence is because she means for the reader to not think about enthnocentricism which means don’t judge a culture by your own culture and beliefs. She doesn’t want you to think of Indian men as terrible people because not all of them beat their wife. She wants us to think that the United States and India are two totally different countries and we have different values and cultures that we seem to live by.

By: Nicole

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Biomedical, psychological and feminist models differ. Biomedical “offers important scientific research about possible physiological causes of purging and starvation.” But what makes this model different from the rest is that this model has nothing to do with the history, socialization or cultural factors of this disorder. This model is mainly to focus on using medical treatment to help women get over their disease or trauma. Psychological model is influenced by the “biological, psychological and cultural factors” everything that the biomedical model does not refer to. The interesting fact about these two models is that they both “neglect color, lesbians and working class women”. The feminist model believes almost all eating disorders occur in women and not men. This model anylizes how “sexism” may relate to eating problems and how men make a huge impact of the women’s eating disorder. A women believes that in order to get a man and feel beautiful that she needs to be skinny if she’s not then women believe the men would dump her for a skinner more attractive women.

According to Thompson eating disorders are a survival technique. My view on this statement is that people eat when they are depressed, bored, scared, happy, nervous, ect. Eating is a crucial part of our lives. So when something bad happens to someone like getting sexually or physically abused , I don’t blame a person just wanting to eat. Eating makes all your worries and pain go away. But once they get themselves under control and stop eating they realize what they have done and they have this fear that they will become heavy, so they will go into the bathroom and purge.

Racism and Cultures have a lot to do with eating disorders. For example the italian culture is made of up food. Every Italian restaurant or family you go to you never get a small meal. It is always huge and you could can never finish it! How can someone be skinny with all that food they eat everyday? Over in Africa they have no choice but to be skinny because there is less food and they exercise everyday they walk everywhere they go and such. Certain Cultures do have a rule about being this perfect barbie doll skinny.  

By:  Nicole V