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“Rape Culture”

We Indians are always been proud of our great culture. In our eyes every one else is inferior. But recently our capital city has become a shining beacon of our new emerging culture, “Rape Culture”, i don’t know whether you can call it even a culture. As New Delhi is our capital any smear on its reputation affects the entire nation. In a rape culture, women are stamped down by the fear of being raped. This is an extremist side of our patriarchal culture. In this type of culture women who got raped become the culprits, society wouldn’t sympathize with victims, rather they would argue that those women asked for it. The only purpose is to make women subordinate to men by the fear of rape. This type of attitude was prevalent in India for years, as it is the side effect of our Patriarchal society. Even though in our culture rape has been considered brutal and inhumane, because of our male dominant system rape was common. Some times we don’t even take rape seriously as rape is considered as

Mind and Prejudice

          I had been thinking about this quite a long time. How come people be prejudicious to others? world is filled with prejudiced views, Could this attitude be changed? sometimes i think it is not easy to have a non-prejudiced position. We always consider ourselves better than others, might n ot there be any specific reason but still we like it that way. No matter how hard we try to consider others as equals we just can't. We always think in a specific direction, it had to be others who do all the bad things and base for this preconception is, we are always right and fair. For example most of the Indian's blood boils on hearing the word "Pakistan" and unfortunately most us think thats how it should be, Pakistan = bad and India = good. We always forget about the common people like us who live there in Pakistan, and nothing to do with terrorism and war, who were trying to make both ends meet. Hate crimes are mainly because of this prejudiced views.