Thursday, October 18, 2012

Post reading #7


As I said in my pre response post it does not matter it does not matter what race, ethnicity, sexuality, or class a person is domestic violence happens all a cross the board. Although in each one of these categories one could explain why it would happen in that ethnicity, race, sexuality, or class. This has to do with intersectional analysis. For example if we took race to be the category of intersectional analysis this could play a big part in domestic violence because in some races such as Latino or Asian there is a bigger chance of domestic violence because of how they grew up and the beliefs there culture believes in. Then this ties into ethnicity, because race is just the generalized categories they put everyone into and ethnicity is actually where your family ancestry is. This is a part of domestic violence because like I said before some of the reasons people abuse there spouses is because they grew up in different countries and saw there father do it, grandfather, or etc, and they are just repeating a cycle of abuse, and think of there partners as just objects that they control. Sexuality is also big element because not only based on your sexuality, but your sexual orientation people will judge you if or when you try to go in to report violence. For example about a week ago I was waiting at the police station to get something down and a male Latino went in and reported his wife hitting him, but he did not speak English so he had his cousin come in and translate for him. When the police officer heard that he came in to report his wife though she looked completely confused and had a half smile on her face. This is an example of a straight man imagine if it was not and there were two male partners involved or two women partners involved most of these couples do not report their domestic because they are afraid of being judged when they go in. As anyone can see all these factors play a big role in domestic violence, but just cause we understand intersectional analysis and how it play a part in domestic violence does not mean it is going to stop. Its just like saying because you found the problem its going to go away, and thats not true. It will help though because we found the problem and know we just need to fix it, but fixing all of it is impossible and will never happen, so we fix one at a time.
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1 comment:

  1. Hi Nelson,
    Your blog does a really nice of job of providing examples that help us to understand how race or gender impacts the phenomenon of domestic violence. It is really important to examine the way that identities shape people's experiences, and your blog does a good job of illustrating that!
    --eas

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