For this
week’s reading I read Teaching Justice
and Living Peace: Body, Sexuality, and Religious Education in Asian-American
Communities written by Boyung Lee. This article talks about how
Asian-Americans are struggling with their sexual identity because of their
religion or culture. For example, many Asian-Americans go to churches like the
Anglican communion or the United Methodist Church and both of these churches
look down on homosexuality. Kids that do come out to their parents often feel
backlash from their parents because they don’t accept them for who they are or
want to keep their homosexuality a secret. Also because of Asian-American
culture the views of women and their sexuality and body put them into a box.
What I mean by this is that Asian-American women are supposed to keep their
virginity until they are married. And then once they are married their bodies
are somewhat owned by their husband. Sometimes it can be so extreme that before
Asian-American get married they have surgery to restore their hymen. This
article shows how Asian-American culture is dominated by heterosexual men as
they control women and discriminate those in the LGBTQ community.
Question:
Has Asian-American changed at all over the years and taken a step in the right
direction to respect women and LGBTQ individuals better?
References:
Lee, Boyung. "Teaching Justice and Living
Peace: Body, Sexuality, and Religious Education in Asian-American
Communities". Religious Education, 22 September, 2006.
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