Through my research on
Nepal I found that Nepal is roughly equal to the size of Iowa. Nepal is home to
many ethnic groups and most descend from various Tibeto-Burmese groups that
have traveled into Nepal. The official Language is Nepali and around 48% of the
population of Nepal speaks it to some degree. Nepali is an Indo-Aryan dialect
that is related to Hindi. English is becoming more popular in Nepal; many
private schools have adopted the language to teach in school making it so that
to speak English is associated with having a better education and having a
higher social status. Nepalese are Religious, family oriented and modest
people. Physical purity, spiritual refinement and humility rank as their most
cherished principles. Many believe in Karma. Family takes priority over the
individual and it is considered strange to want to be alone. Broken families
are frowned upon in the Nepalese culture and Boys are preferred over daughters.
The father is the head of the household and children are to respect and obey
their fathers. While it is frowned upon to make any public display of
affection, many members of the same sex will publicly express their friendships
by linking arms or walking hand in hand. An interesting fact that I found was
that one’s feet never are to be pointed at another person. If one’s foot
touches someone the person is to apologize immediately.
India is around 1/3
the size of the U.S. and has the worlds largest population. India is also known
to be one of the most ethnically diverse countries in the world. Indian culture is split
along four main groups: rural-urban, male-female, wealthy-poor, and the various
castes. Differences among groups of people are usually shown in relation of
social freedoms as well as in access to educational and economic opportunities.
Around 41% of the population speaks Hindi, the country's most widely
spoken language. There are twenty-two languages that have official statuses in
Indian culture. (Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada,
Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya,
Punjabi, Sanskrit, Santhali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu.) The languages
spoken vary by region however, Indian law claims English as a “subsidiary
official language.” It is used in government, business, education, and national
communication.
People who do not share a common first language
generally communicate in either Hindi or English. It seemed to me that people
of India were much like the people of Nepal where their values were quite
similar. The average Indian has deep respect the nation's founder, Mahatma
Gandhi, as well as his ideas and practices which included humility,
nonviolence, self-denial, and religious harmony. Sadly Indians are aware that
Gandhi’s ideas are not being met. There are tensions between Hindus and
Muslims, social classes, rural and urban areas, and traditional and modern
values which make it difficult for India's people to seek common ground amid
their diversity. To try to fix this citizens of India are pursuing to find a
balance amongst it’s countries continual social change.
Human trafficking is most
commonly done for the purpose of sexual slavery, forced labor, or commercial
sexual exploitation as well as for the use of extracting organs for trade. The
term trafficking is sometimes confused because human trafficking does not
necessarily have to do with travel. The trafficking can occur within a victim’s
country or within a trans-nationality. Victims of human trafficking are usually
held against their will through acts of force and required to provide services
at their trackers request. Arrangements of human trafficking may be contracted
but with little or no payment or on terms that are very exploitive, they may be
structured as debt bondages for the victim but they are structured so that the
victim will never be able to pay off their debt.
Traffickers involved with
children often take advantage of the parents’ extreme poverty. Parents sell
children to traffickers in order to pay off debts or gain income. Sometimes
parents are deceived thinking that the scenarios will provide training and a
better life for their children. Parents also may sell their children into
labor, sex trafficking, or illegal adoptions. Sex trafficking victims are generally found in terrible
circumstances and are easily targeted by traffickers.
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