Sherluna Vien
11/8/15
ASA2
Blog #8 

In Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, Yeon-Shim Lee and Linda Hadeed describes the violence that Asian womxn face in a cultural, societal, and individual context. According to the reading, many of these abuses go unreported and happens between partners. One of the reasons behind this is the embedded ideologies of  patriarchy in the Asian culture where women are seen as less than men. As an Asian womxn, I have heard sexist remarks coming from my uncle at a young age. In a family occasion, I was told by my older uncle to go prepare for the dinner table, while my brother was not asked to.To me, this reinforces the idea that women should only fulfill household duties and that men are more superior than women. This contributes to the violence that women face because they are taught to obey the men in the family and told not to talk back at a young age. Additionally, the author describes how the feeling of distress causes violence to happen. Although this article focuses on immigrant womxm, I could also see how this relates to people of color who face many inequalities in society. For example, men who face unemployment feel less than women and vent their anger onto their wives. Because of this idea of not fulfilling one's role, this causes stress and arguments to arise from it. Lastly, individual/familial context talks about how individual incidents like genocide and wars have caused violence to grow. I have heard stories of Vietnamese men who face PTSD. This causes many of them to vent their frustration on family as they do not know how to deal with their PTSD.

My question is how do we prevent family violence to further happen when many people do not want to go to counseling for treatment?