Teaching Justice and Living peace

Lixian Huang

Nov 22th. 2015

Week 10 Blog

ASA 2, A03

Boyung Lee states in the article “Teaching justice and living peace: body, sexuality, and religious education in Asian-American communities” that due to the Confucian cultural background in Asian communities, sexuality has become a taboo subject in Asian American communities. Boyung Lee concludes that the top three Asian American attitudes toward sexuality are “Separation of sexual identity form ethnic identity; shame; heterosexuality as normative, coupled with homophobia”. With an Asian background, I strongly agree that “discrimination against sexual minorities and women” is still popular in Asia. In many families, the wives are supposed to do all the housework merely as servants, and other members in the families just take everything for granted. Some parents keep on having children until they finally have a son, because historically, according to Confucian, women are affiliated to men, and women are sexually underprivileged. The discrimination against sexual minorities in Asia is also understandable because in many countries, reproduction, especially reproduction to a boy, is the highest goal to a family. As a result, since most of the LGBTQ communities are not able to give birth to a new generation without the help of high-tech, such LGBTQ couples will never be accepted by traditional Asian peoples. In addition, as Lee mentions, many conservative Asian families refuse to educate their children about sexuality, which to me is ridiculous because the lack of education can simply increase the possibility of unhealthy sexual life which is opposite of the expectation of the “Null Curriculum”.

Question: How to convince traditional parents that women and sexual minorities should be respected as much as men?