Chinese Marriages

While reading the Chinese autobiographies, i was trying to figure out what i wanted to learn more about. Then it hit me, Chinese Marriages. I chose this topic because I have always wanted to know if the marriages were arranged or if they happened naturally or a little bit of both. Turns out that that law enforcement has not been able to stop parents from the practice of arranging marriages. Over the past 50 years the change in parental involvement has decreased a ton.

Parents are still involved, just in different ways. Now a days parents are involved, by giving potential partners, giving their opinions and advice. Arranged marriages are more common in other Asian countries. Arranged marriages are also most common in Royal families, because they want only the best of the best in the family. Most people get Arranged and Forced marriages confused. Arranged marriages are when the third party chose your significant other, however they still have a right to say no they do not want to marry that person. Forced marriages is when you have to marry that person even if you do not want to.

 As you can see on the picture to the right, a woman in a forced marriage has to wear his cloth over her face, because that is the tradition.

 If i lived in China, I do not think i would marry at all. And my reasoning is, i do not want to marry someone who i am arranged with and barely know. However i feel like that would be a very interesting experience. If i was forced to marry someone and i did not want to marry them, i would probably be thrown in jail for not obeying the "law" of forced marriages. Because i will not do something i do not want to do.

Sources: both Secondary

http://www.womenofchina.cn/womenofchina/html1/special/13/6171-1.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arranged_marriage

reading response #4: Article on Plagiarism

I don't understand how copying something from the internet for school is not plagiarism. Because you are taking someone else's work and using it as your own. But the definition of plagiarism is copying someone else's work and putting your name on it and using it as their own. People believe that now that we have more electronics that plagiarism is more likely to happen now then 10 years ago. Professors don't quite understand why plagiarism is so widespread and they will not excuse it. All teachers believe that if you copy someone else work you are not learning any yourself. Therefore they are not doing their jobs. Most professors believe that the amount of plagiarism has gone up a lot because the students have resources like never before that gives them the information they need at the touch of a button. As you can see in the picture from above it shows you the difference of purposely plagiarizing and accidently plagiarizing. Susan D Blum states, " Today's students stand at the crossroads of a new way of conceiving texts and the people who cream them and who quote them." What she is saying is basically what I stated earlier. The access to information is way to easy and the security for the information is very weak and students take advantage of that now a days.