Lieux et bourses

Places and exchanges

The notion I am going to deal with is Places and exchanges. I would like to illustrate this notion with a country : the Canada.The notion "Spaces and exchanges" deals with the geographical and symbolic areas that all societies occupy and the interactions between men and different societies. Our world is built on the exploration and conquest of new spaces. The different cultural, economic, sociological and language interactions have shaped and characterised our modern-day world.

I'm going to answer this question : What do borders mean to First Peoples in Canada ?

In a first part I will talk about the maple leaf country and the First peoples. In a second part, I'll talk about the life in the reserve and the first people's point of view. definition of «Power». It’s the ability or official capacity to exercise control or authority over others. It can be a person, a group, or a nation having great influence over people. Power is exercised through a variety of relationships sustained or accepted, often internalized. The power is in people, in governents, etc...

I will speak about India and answer the question : Are all citizens on an equal footing in modern-day India ? In a first part I will talk about women's situation in India. In a second part I will talk about the Dalits and poor people.

Firstly, I have to talk about the Dawry tradition. When a girl gets married in India, her family is supposed to pay money to the boy's family in oder to compensate for the boy's education. Consequently it is sometimes a problem for parents to have too many daughters. This is why parents prefer have a boy as a girl.

There is an other problem in India, the girls go missing. There is a gendercide in India. More and more women are elimated from the Indian population trough dawry related murder, gender selected abortion (when women are pregnant, they can have a scan to find out the sex of the baby), infanticide and abandonnement. We studied a text entitled « Indian's girls go missing » : the last census shows India is becoming a male-dominated society . Families prefer to have sons beacause they are financially more attractive. Indeed, it is more interesting to have sons because they are the breadwinners, they make money and so they can look after the family business, the family name and the parents when they are old.

Moreover, it is expensive to have girls because of the dawry tradition. Consequently, there are more and more abortions, baby girls tend to disappear, and many women are killed when their family can't pay for their dowry anylonger after their widding.

We studdieg an another text entitled « Another girl ». Kavita, a young indian woman, has just give birth to a baby. Her husband, convinced that the baby is a boy, is over-exited when he arrives. But when he realises the new born is a girl, he loses his self-control and blames it on Kavita. They are too poor to have a girl, they can't afford to pay for a dowry, they need a boy to help them in the fields. Kavita is devastated, she wants to keep the baby.

This is the situation of girls in India...

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