Hunger buried with no chance to take domain in depriving a hungry mouth from nourishment, no matter where in the world they may live.

        Greed stomped on with a magical big shoe, never to tread and take away from innocent people.

           Kindness flourishes like a blossoming rose spreading its seeds with warmth and sincerity.

             All children protected, fed, clothed, with loving parents.

               All abuse ends, never to emotionally, mentally, or physically, scar a human being again.

                                             A world that finally sees the glorious days of light~

                            ”These are some of my humble thoughts for today, May 16th, 2012″

Thoughts for May 16, 2012

©Copyright LisaMarieMottert 2012

Some people are also of the view point that respect should not be made a part of war for any one gender. Men and Women should respect each others equally and it should be expressed at every event. Women expect hearing truth from men. They like men who take active part in the life’s struggle. Vinkas suggested four steps of moral ethics in view of today’s age that can be implemented 1) Take initiative in opening the door for any women 2) Keep standing until a woman takes her seat 3) Whenever you go with a woman for outdoor meal pay the bill 4) While traveling in a public transport, give your seat to a woman.

In the modern age, majority of men do not express moral ethics due to the fear of cheating. Ponam Singh of American College Dubai opines that ethics grow with different cultures and their expression can be seen in crises as well. On 14th April 1914, when Titanic was sinking in the sea, why it was decided taking women and children first in a life boat away from the ship. Reality is that even in severe crises nobody forgets expressing morals.

However, the meanings of ethics have changed with the time now. Now, paying other’s bill, opening door for somebody, giving your seat to anybody and helping any injured person also come under ethics. In societies, where men and women both play their roles in the life’ struggle, pay attention to the mutual respect equally in the society, In Asian countries these values are found comparatively more.

Katty Foster has been associated with the public relation’s field for the last 25 years. She met her husband after 20 years of separation. The attitude of her husband didn’t change during these years. Mrs. Foster says that respect and ethics are such codes of conduct that enables a noble person passing a better life.

Good manners and ethics are correlated in many people with their DNA also. They do not think much before doing any good work. They keep true respect for others in their heart. Katty Foster says that in spite of living away for the long time, we both give respect to each other very much in any dinner party or amusement site.

Foster says, “I am unable to understand why people do not follow code of conduct? Why do you not think any good for a person who sweeps roads or safe your shoes from going dirty?”

Mrs. Foster says, “My husband respects me and when he cares me without limits I start thinking myself as a queen. The expression of respect from man for women is actually a way of giving honor to a woman.”

Sticka Maria works as a therapy practitioner. In her opinion the respect and honor emotions mostly relates to men. For some people, it is also a matter of ego and prestige that they would open door for some women or offer them theirs seat.

Some people never feel shy even after committing a fault while some others ask pardon immediately. Such a person learns much from his faults and stands up at the top level of ethics.

By Muhammad Irfan Zafar

Content Writer

Villages start out small and simple….

Villages are randomly generated around the map for you to find however, they are unlike normal NPC villages and have different NPCs who are tasked with different jobs. From harvesting to managing the village, to trading with you and building houses, each NPC has a role to play in the village. Trading with the village will increase your reputation with them and also help them to grow larger and expand.

..but can grow to be very large!

Chests spread out amongst the houses contain valuable resources that the villagers have gathered. They are however locked. Killing the all the villagers will unlock all the chests in the village. Be warned however, as all the villagers will start attacking you the minute one of their own is under attack! Also, killing villagers reduces your reputation with the village and its culture! Also, once an NPC dies by your hand it doesnt respawn! Other sources of damage like falling and lava will make the NPC respawn shortly afterwards.

A Hindi Village, one of the 4 cultures in Millenaire

Millenaire also features cultures! There are 4 cultures in Millenaire: Norman, Hindi, Mayan and Japanese! Each culture has their own unique items and archetecture. Once you reach a certain reputation level with a culture, you may build your own village of that culture’s type! Village construction is up to you, from placement to design to building type, the choice is yours to shape your very own village!

Quests, the most interesting feature in Millenaire

Some NPCs will readily give out quests to the player such as delivering an item or gathering items. Some quests may be much much more elaborate than that and therefore are much more difficult to complete (but have grand rewards)!

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India is the world’s largest democracy, a nuclear power and at the forefront of grand social changes, but  some of the cultures and customs practiced here, in my view require a revolutionary face-lift. The young people of India will be judged very harshly by posterity if they cannot turn tables on some of the cultural practices that  take away human dignity. This is not to say, obsolete and uncouth cultures don’t exist in my part of the world. Ugandans right now are battling with the demonic culture of child sacrifice. Men seeking riches willingly give their children to be slaughtered by witches on the promise of lots of money. Some actually go on to be rich. Others pay money to poor strong un-employed men to abduct young kids from distant lands for sacrifice and they rest at nothing until a child is killed and heads, tongues and other parts removed for fetish purposes. These cultures definitely violate children’s rights and deny them their normal and happy existence.

The Untouchable Temple Prostitutes

 There are many social issues of untouchability in India but there is none that is as humbling as the untouchable whores. In Andhra Prades indecent culture of untouchable whores targets the girl child born with a wild mane of hair matted in dreadlocks. Any girl with this kind of hair is automatically dedicated to the goddess of Ellammal and condemned into sexual slavery as Jogini woman.

Role of the Temple Prostitutes (Jogini women)

Society in this part of the world constructed the role of the Jogini women to be performed exclusively by the  Dalits. As sex slaves, they are required by the goddess of Ellammal to have sex with any man that wants them for sexual pleasure. They are also supposed to offer free sex to whoever wants and  no man is mandated to take responsibility for the children they bear. A Dalit will live her life without being permitted to marry. Parents who are asked to dedicate their children to the goddess of  Ellammal  present their children willingly believing that goddess Ellammal gives them divine protection and any disobedience of the sign of the goddess attracts divine punishments.

How the Temple Prostitutes are chosen

A careful analysis of how a girl is  chosen for dedication to  the goddess of Ellammal however, reveals that it is more driven by economic imperatives than religion. In the case of a little girl Yellamma (pictured above) who was dedicated to be a Jogini in 2000, she  was the daughter of a very poor day laborer who could barely feed sher only daughter. The wife had earlier died of TB and he works in people’s fields and gets paid only in rice. It is believed that her father’s hopeless economic condition made him a target of the religious priests to force him to dedicate his only beautiful daughter to the goddess of Ellammal as a temple prostitute. Like many gross injustices that have been meted out against Indian women since the colonial times, the use of temple prostitutes or th Jogini women was outlawed in 1984 but very little enforcement has been done by  the Indian authorities. The Rural communities continue to practice this vile tradition of the untouchable whores, with the majority of them bonded to their work through the fear of divine punishments.

Way forward

With intervention by civil society, it has been  proved that it is possible to change this culture and many ex Jogini women have been rescued from their lives of misery and sexual servitude without any serious divine punishments. Some of the ex-temple prostitutes have been married and it is hoped that with sustained awareness raising and government support, obnoxious customs such as the untouchable whores can still be dismantled from the areas where they are still being practised.

In Goodman’s initial area of discussion of “Some Moral Minima; Genocide, Famine, and Germ Warfare (Goodman, L.E., 2010)”, she states “Genocide targets individuals as members of a group, seeking to destroy a race, a culture, a linguistic or ethnic identity (Goodman, L.E., 2010)”. I reflect back to after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks were made on The United States. The threat of germ warfare became a very real aspect of war for our nation. Governmental groups, that we were at war against, were considering the decision to use this type of weapon in order to defeat their enemies in larger numbers. With their belief that this was the right way to win the war against us is a case in point of relativism. Majority of Americans viewed this method of war as wrong. Goodman also states, “Wholesale murder is wrong, then, not just for its scale but also for willfully negating individuality, typing its victims, and stirring hatred against the putative failings of the type (Goodman, L.E., 2010)”. With this statement, I am in agreement with Goodman. After the 9-11 attacks, many labeled American Muslims as terrorists simply because they were Muslims like the terrorist who bestowed the attacks. This was no different from those terrorist believing that each American that was killed that day held the same beliefs the Al-Qaeda were fighting against.   

When discussing the topics genocide, famine, and germ warfare, Goodman delivers a great argument on why genocide would be better off if it were considered universally immoral. She declares, “Escalating violence strips away moral barriers and blocks the view of faces (Goodman, L.E., 2010)”. However, Goodman also provides the argument that “warfare is not always wrong (Goodman, L.E., 2010)”, Yet, she does continue on to write “war is suspect: Its dynamic to readily escapes control through the illusion that weapons are only tools and war itself just another device, the natural extension of diplomacy (Goodman, L.E., 2010).” I do feel uncomfortable with war being related to anything natural and can relate to her opinion; however, this opinion is not relative to every culture.

The second part of morality and relativism that Goodman argues is “terrorism, hostages and child warriors (Goodman, L.E., 2010)”. Reflecting on the reading, “Terrorists explode the values they claim to fight for; their victims blood blurs and blots whatever ends were meant to justify the carnage (Goodman, L.E., 2010)”. In Iraq, this happens on a daily basis. While it is hard to comprehend that this type of conduct is of acceptance among Al-Qaeda’s vision of Islam, groups of people are being killed because of suicide bombers. They also instill this belief within their children and teach them to be child warriors. It is of their belief that this is what their God desires. If terrorism and warfare were believed to be of wrongdoing, universally, these types of instances could be eluded or at best decreased. I have come to trust that having a better understanding and acceptance of other religions there would be less terrorism, hostages and child warriors as people would have a less ethnocentric view of other cultures.

“Slavery, polygamy, and incest (Goodman, L.E., 2010)” are the next focus in Goodman’s paper. “Slavery is the deepest exploitation, overriding subject hood to make a person a tool for use (Goodman, L.E., 2010).” A lot of people accept that slavery existed and was put to an end; however, slavery still exists today. Human trafficking is one of the biggest forms of slavery found within our society. The international trafficking of women and children for the use of labor or sex has been under scrutiny for some time. In some ethical virtues, polygamy is also considered as a method of slavery. Goodman argues, “In polygamous societies women become acquisitions—displays of wealth or status, objects of enjoyment, means of reproduction, providers of childcare and domestic labor (Goodman, L.E., 2010)”. Goodman goes on to discuss Rape and Clitoridectomy in the fourth section. She says that “Rape is exploitative, objectifying, and, yes, again violative. But what it violates is not just another’s body but that other’s personhood, invested, deeply in one’s sexuality (Goodman, L.E., 2010)”. Without any hesitation, I agree with Goodman’s opinions of the subjects at hand. I believe there is never a situation that can be deliberated as a commendable time to kill just to kill, molest for sexual gratification, or eliminate someone’s moralities just to gain fortune or reverence.

Goodman states, “If we hope to sift style from substance, and discredit the willful muddling of the two that makes the unfamiliar look exotic, then we are looking not just for family resemblances or a behavioral lowest common denominator, but for moral threads and themes that can anchor norms to recognizably objective values (Goodman, L.E., 2010)”. In broad-spectrum of the word, relativism is the reference to a variety of diverse thoughts. Moral relativism affirms the fact of morality not being centered on one complete custom. It can be centered on an individual’s faith and the beliefs that were instilled in them, as normal, by those who raised him or her.

When we view cultures that exist worldwide, we come to realize that there is a multitude of drastically different ethic codes. To me the strongest relative phrase within “Some Moral Minima” is when Goodman writes, “Certain things are simply wrong (Goodman, L.E., 2010)”. I say this because while the issues she presents may be relative as wrong to her ethics, many cultures view these “issues” as a way of life and it is relative to their standards of living.

If the four themes that Goodman debated were universally surveyed, I think that plenty of wars could have been, and, for future reference, be avoided. It is nice to think of how united the world would be if we all had universal moral requirements. However, we cannot agree on many of these issues within our own country, let alone the entire world. As I stated earlier in this paper, pondering the image, that only one accurate ethic exists and that we may be able to find universal moral requirements and arrive at a multiethnic agreement on these issues is, in my belief, a parable.

REFERENCES

Goodman, L. E. (2010). Some Moral Minima. Good Society Journal, 19(1), 87-94. Retrieved from EBSCOhost.

Everywhere in the world there are rules that make it possible for people to do the thousands of different things that are part of everyday living. Without such rules, it would be impossible to get things done. Everyone would be in a state of confusion. Two people could not even play a simple game of checkers if each one followed a different set of rules. Driving from one place to another would be very dangerous if all drivers made up their own rules of the road.

Most of these rules for everyday living are not found in books. Many are not written down at all. But everyone knows what they are. They are the things that help us understand what other people may expect from us and what we may expect from others.

These unwritten rules are part of what we call culture. A culture is the total way of life created by a group of people. It includes things, ideas, behavior, and speech.

There following are some of the examples of the different kinds of behavior that people expect of each other. You will see how a culture’s unwritten rules protect people from confusion and harm.

Expected Behavior

Have you ever seen an angry baby? Then you know how it behaves. All over the world, angry babies behave in much the same way. Their little hands clench into fists. Their faces wrinkle with temper. Then they take a big breath and yell. They want what they want when they want it. They have no other way to say so. But such behavior is only for infants. Part of growing up is discovering that one cannot always do as one pleases. After all, the world could not work if everyone went about acting like angry babies. People must learn to control their behavior. This is why every culture has rules that define how people are expected to behave. A culture’s unwritten rules of behavior are called its norms.

Children begin learning the norms of their culture when they are still quite small. They learn by being told and by watching others. As they grow older, they get into the habit of behaving in the expected ways. They learn to do this almost without thinking about it. They are startled if they see someone else go against the norms they have learned.

Being Polite: A norm we expect from each other

Many norms develop in an effort to make life easier and more pleasant. For example, one doesn’t start talking when someone else is speaking. That would be impolite. Being polite is something we expect of each other. We have learned that politeness makes everyday living much more pleasant.

Setting Up Our day

Some norms deal with how our days are set up. Many people in the world work from nine to five, with an hour off at noontime. But in countries with very hot climates, people may go home for four hours in the middle of the day. This is a time to rest. They return to work later, in the early evening, when the heat of the day passed.

Norms and People

Norms can tell you where people are from. In European countries, Americans stand out because of their table manners. As they cut their food and eat it, Americans shift the fork from one hand to the other. People in Europe keep the fork in the same hand when they eat. But always keeping one’s fork in the in the same hand is considered bad manners in the United States.

To say goodbye, you are used to putting up one hand with the palm facing out, and then waving it. But if you did this in a country like Turkey, people would think you meant “Come Hear!”. The norm in Turkey is different.

Norms in Different Members of a Culture

Norms are often different for the different members of a culture. In an American culture, for example, teenagers are expected to carry packages and hold doors open for their grandparents. Parents are expected to give their children comfort and advice whenever necessary.

Norms that changes our behavior

Sometimes, norms of behavior change. During the period of change, people may feel uncertain and confused. After World War II, the country of Japan experienced many big changes. The norm of behavior in this new and changing Japan was for people to act according to their own consciences, to their own sense of right and wrong. In 1950 a young village woman discovered that a local official had cheated in counting election votes. Acting as her conscience told her, she reported this to the police. The official was tried, found guilty, and put in jail.

People in the cities thought she had done the right thing. City newspapers praised her. But the people of her village refused to speak to her. Why? They believed that no one should be shames in public. This belief had long been a norm of Japanese culture. It was much older than the new norm of following one’s conscience. The villagers believed that the woman had shamed the official. They felt that she had brought shame to the whole village and everyone in it.

Changes in norms amongst women

Before World War II, young women in the United States were expected to grow up, marry, and have children. They were supposed to become good housewives and mothers. But after the war, expectations have changes. More and more women left home when they finished school. They went to big cities and took jobs. Many did not marry. Often, those who did marry still kept their jobs. Today there is a new norm that a woman can have a business life as well as a life as wife and mother.

The new norm is that woman may choose. But during the time that the norm was changing, there were problems. Young women who left their hometowns to take jobs were likely to be severely criticized by people who knew them. They were going against what had long been expected of young women in their country.

Learning Expected Behavior

As we learn the behavior that is expected of us, we are learning the social values of our culture. A culture’s social values are all the ways of thinking and acting that the people consider important.

In some cultures, it is important to try always to win or gain things that many people want. We would say that such cultures value competition. In Japanese schools, for example, students compete very hard for the highest marks.

Among certain Indian groups in the United States, it is considered wrong to try to do better than others. Some who wins too often at a game might not be asked to play again.

Learning the Social Values of our Culture

How do children learn the norms and social values of their culture? In most cultures, children begin learning from their parents. In many cultures, the learning goes on with grandparents, older brothers and sisters, and other family members as teachers.

But learning to follow the norms and accept the social values of a culture does not stop when a child steps out the front door. In fact, much learning takes place away from home. In most countries, schoolteachers play important part in helping children learn how to get along in their culture. They also learn from friends, neighbors, and religious teachings. They learn great deal from the mass media. As adults, most of us learn about our culture in our places of work and from the new social groups we join. For most people, learning continues all thorough life.

Learning Norms by Observation

One important way to learn is by observation. This is the act of seeing and noticing. A child watches what older people do and then tries to do the same. If a Quechua girl sees her mother and older sister spinning wool, she may also want to try. Just by watching, she begins to learn how to do the job. How to keep the wool from getting tangled.

Learning Norms by Instruction

Another way to learn is by instruction. This is being told or shown what to do and how to go about it. It is instruction when your math teacher shows you how to work new kind of problem. Your mother is instructing you when she shows you how to write a thank-you note for an enexpected birthday present that arrived in the mail.

Short stories also teach the social values of a culture. One story told, “The Boy Who Cried Wolf!,” has been retold for centuries. The story is about a little boy who likes to shout “Wolf! Wolf!”. Each time he shouts these words, other people come running to save him. But there never is a wolf. The little boys is just playing a game. Then one day when he is alone, a real wolf comes along. The little boy is truly afraid. “Wolf! Wolf! He shouts. But nobody comes to save him. You may already know what social value this story told us.

Encouraging others to keep the norms followed

All people everywhere have ways to encourage others to keep following the culture’s norms and respecting its social values. Hugs, kisses, smiles, and kind words let people know that we like what they are doing. Such things are called rewards. They are like presents given for doing right.

Norms and Rejection

But what happens when we notice someone doing something wrong? We do not smile or say kind words. We may frown or speak harshly. These are forms of punishment. A child who does not play fairly with other children may be punished by rejection, by being sent or kept away from the group. Adults who break certain traffic laws may be given a fine, a sum of money they have to pay as a punishment. People found guilty of such serious crimes as robbery may be punished by being sent to prison.

Most people usually follow the expected ways of their culture. It is only a small number who break the most important rules. This is why most groups, most of the time, work much as they supposed to.

The world seems to grow smaller and smaller. Here I sit in my room, write down a document and mail it to a friend to lives miles away. All I do is type it on a technological box called computer, upload it to the internet and press a button and my friend receives it. This same mail could be send to my brother who lives in a country thousands of miles away and even to my cousin who lives hundreds of countries away.

This is globalization. It has brought the world so close that the inter connections can never be cut off.

One country produces something on its land and the other day the stuff exported to another country miles away.

This sounds good to hear, but the greatest problem is we tend to ignore how this could be used by other evil forces at work. If a good can be traded so easily, how difficult would it be for a terrorist to smuggle arms and ammunitions, even bombs over boundaries? Are we ignoring the high smuggling to drugs all over the world? Drugs that are produced in African countries and then traded all over the world. How a terrorist leader hides insides the caves of Afghanistan and control a suicide attack in America?

If globalization has opened borders, it has done so for everyone. It is an irreversible process that is being now used by forces that tend to work to bring harm to the world and its inhabitants.

If one nation prospers, are we forgetting that it is doing over the suffering of another nation, simple economics, u take from one and give it to the other, stuff just doesn’t come out of nowhere.

The world has become a GLOBAL VILLAGE but do not butter yourself with the phenomena, it connects not only you but everyone and everyone does not work for the betterment of its inhabitants.

The world is now a Global Village is a cliché which is used to define Globalization most of the times. The way the world is now interconnected and in some cases interdependent and the influence of one country on another is what Globalization is all about. Culture invasions, creation of excess and mass demand, trends in the way of living, comparative advantage and Industrial revolution are some of the very distinct outcomes of Globalization.

The best example of culture invasion is the westernization of culture in the Asian countries. We see that over the years, way of living and culture has been heavily influenced by the western countries, in the form of the clothes we wear, the food we eat and even our recreational activities. This change in the way of living creates an excess of demand because the more we get exposed to the variety  of products and utilities that are offered the more the demand it creates and hence there is an excess of demand.

This is taken advantage of by large multinationals as they come and setup factories in developing countries  which have been the worst hit as they are the biggest importers of western products. This is because most developing countries have an absolute advantage in Agriculture and they concentrate on the production of agriculture and import industrialized products.

Globalization on the other hand also has its negative impact. The mass production of products has resulted in rapid depletion of the natural resources. It has created a huge market for the trade of Arms and Ammunition which has given rise to terrorism around the world. The race towards industrialization to take advantage of the mass demand has caused Global warming. This has resulted in drastic climatic changes giving rise to deadly natural disasters which remains to be a major concern throughout the world.

The term  globalization is a phenomena which is inevitable specially at this point and time. The world is largely becoming a global village and there is a rise in the interdepence amongst countries. One could say that the world is becoming more and more efficient as far as the usage of resources and production of products is concerned. Thus the world is evolving and becoming a stage where the survival of the fittest is the need of the hour.

Globalization has not only encouraged development and prosperity amongst nations but has also created an environment where specialization as well as quality control and development procedures have attained a lot of importance along with a lot of development in these fields has also taken place. For example now countries know their strengths and weaknesses specialize in those fields which would be beneficial for the growth of the nation.

But like everything globalisation also has some disadvantages. The world has become very competitive and the countries who own the resources dictate terms to the dependent partners. The war which had initially started to attain greater market access has eventually leaded to a war to attain resources. The greatest example is the United States which started the war against terror so that terrorism be eradicated but if one reads different analysts associated with different think tanks around the globe, there is a general perception that the war is just a way to get hold of the resources present in Iraq and Afghanistan. Former President George Bush and Vice President Dick Chenny have been associated with different scams in regard to the war on terror.

The other disadvantage could be the unequal distribution of wealth as the rich are becoming richer and richer while the suffering of the poor is increasing by every passaging of day. Some believe that it is the result of free trade which is a product of globalization which has adversely affected the small trading partner.

Having said that still the benefits comapred to the disadvantages of globalization are far more greater. The concept of world becoming a global village might eventually lead to an international government which would act like a regulator amongst different countries.

The interaction amongst different cultures and traditions is also on a rise which would eventually lead to a common ground where all segments of societies could meet and the differences amongst them would be eliminated and by this interfaith harmony would also be possible.

By this the world would become a better place to live……