assignment 3

For the first article, I choose “global Woman” which written by Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild. In this article, it shows the change of gender roles. In traditional concept, women tend to work at home while men tend to work outside. The main jobs of women are taking care of children, educating children, doing housework… however, the main jobs of men are work outside to earn money, they need to support the family’s spending expenditure. However, the concept has changed. In this article, it shows how women, especially women from the single family, how to adopt the new environment. It shows the women need to leave their house and work in order to support their family. It stood me out with some similar cases. In Asia, there are very common while a family hire a maid for taking care of their house. And those maids are come from some less developed countries, such as Thailand, Indonesia, and Philippines. Those maids leave their home town and work oversea as they want to earn more money to let their families have better lives. Therefore, the gender roles of women and men have a big change.For the second article, I choose “American Have a Different Attitude”. In the first two paragraphs, it shows how a traditional concept of a Filipina mother and second generation Filipina daughter. From paragraph 2, it states that “I found that a lot of Asian American friends of mine, we don’t date like White girls date. We don’t sleep around like White girls do. Everyone is really mellow at dating because your parents were constraining and restrictive.” It shows how an American and Asian behave differently. As being a Chinese, I also agree a Asian doesn’t do what American or white girls do. It may be refers to different region has different culture. For me, my mother teaches me in a harsh way. The attitude is totally different between me and American. In order to response to the question that professor mentioned “Is situated knowledge?”and impediment to seeing the world clearly?, I think the situated knowledge is an impediment to seeing the world clearly.. It is because we need to experience in order to know more about this world and we cannot restrict by the knowledge, we can recreate our new world.