I'm up at midnight doing an assignment for world civ. We were given a choice of six topics to write a short essay on, and one of them deals with women's role in historical China. It was tough not to go with that option, but I don't want my professor to think I'm a raging feminist and I've already written on women's roles in ancient civs. And I really, really am not a feminist! I'm just a woman. It's rather appalling to me that most young women today don't know womens history. Just as bad are the tremendous numbers of Black, Native, Asian, etc peoples who live in first world countries (ie North America, most of Western Europe and Australia, and highly developed Asian countries) and don't think about, or CARE about their historical background. I'm a woman, I'm Hawaiian, I'm Native American, and I'm Scotch-Irish. I know the historical stories of these people(s). I know what the people who came before me went through that I might have the life I have now, meaning my options and freedoms. And I am often drawn to their stories when I need to write about the past.
On the other hand, I'm pretty sure most of my professors know I'm highly opinionated...
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