By: Danielle Villanueva
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For my Each One, Teach One I decided to take a twist on the section on gender equality, and compare it to equal rights movements. My over arching question with this project is
AS DEVELOPED NATIONS MOVE TOWARDS GAY EQUALITY, HOW WILL UNDERDEVELOPED NATIONS REACT?
Underdeveloped countries that have been able to stabilize and globalize by taking initiative for their own economy all while assimilating to what developed nations want. Take for example the Philippines – the product of their success can be attributed to the creation of OFWs and complying to the employment needs of other nations. I might correlate their assimilation to the openness and small successes of equal right movement.
Then, let’s take Russia who would rather not get with the globalization movement. They currently have a president that has positioned himself and taken initiative to ensure any pro-gay movements are banned.
As Friedman suspected, the world is flattening. All mediums of media have been used to create awareness of the injustice that is anti-gay. I wanted to use my final each one teach one, as a form of an idea sparker. Under-developed nations have tweaked their equal rights position on women to comply with developed nation ideals. In the years to come, will this be the same reaction for gay equality?
This is very interesting, I also wonder about how gay rights movements are doing in other countries. I think the issue of gay rights is particularly interesting because homosexuality has often been tied up with moral (and frequently, religious) values; even though America is gaining in terms of gay rights, the economic powers that be are not always the most supportive. Even if they were, I wonder whether other countries would follow by example, or if it would go ignored, say, if the country in question (like Russia) is just in opposition to western standards at large.