Understand
Peers and Broaden My Point of View
I selected three articles, each of them is considered by Woohyuk Cho,
Sarmita, and Seokwoo Hong. The
first article is about women violence and the measurement in Indonesia from
Woohyuk Cho’s blog and as a woman I can understand the feeling of Indonesian
women. The second article is from
Sarmita’s blog, which is talking about virtual reality exposure therapy to
overcome phobia, and I selected it because I also have similar experience
regarding arachnophobia. Last
article is taken from a blog of Seokwoo Hong that is about Amazon indigenous
people who are threatened by federal, and the problem is what I most interested
since high school. From those reasons
I chose their articles and added some my opinion on them.
First of all, I read the article
called, “Survey finds widespread violence against women” from
Woohyuk Cho’s blog in group 1 because of the reason that I can sympathize the
difficulty of Indonesian women and their action. According to The Jakarta Post, they
say that the percentage of women who experienced violence from physical to
sexual is over 33%. For this reason, Indonesian women politicians try to
reinforce the law to protect the violence in order to decrease the problem. Regarding this action, Woohyuk Cho said it’s not fair to specially
treat women because they are just women, by describing the foreign example of
woman army and his experience. He thinks that it’s the discrimination caused by
the stereotype and physical differences. In my opinion, I cannot agree with
his contention because I think women should be protected more than men. As
Woohyuk Cho said, women are weaker than men physically, so women have been
victims of many criminals and they don’t have much strength to resist them.
Also, I have also many scary experience walking alone preceding a certain man,
being with a strange man in elevator, and other similar things. Woohyuk Cho said that the content of
the article regarding measure to woman violence is not proper one, but I think
it needs to be taken.
Secondly, I chose the article named “How virtual
reality spiders are helping people face their arachnophobia” from the blog of
Sarmita in group 2, since I have also arachnophobia and experienced the
exposure therapy. According to the
article from ABC News, exposure therapy is the treatment to overcome the phobia
by exposing people to their source of fear and relaxing their muscles.
Moreover, the article says, nowadays the virtual reality exposure therapy
becomes one of the effective methods. Sarmita
said that she has an arachnophobia and wants to overcome it using the virtual
reality exposure therapy. She is looking forward to getting a fine. Similarly I also have phobia against spiders and a
few years ago I’ve gotten an exposure therapy and it was awful. Even though it
is an effective method, it is only effective as long as people are exposed to
the fear slowly enough. Because I progressed the treatment too quickly, I
advise Sarmita that she doesn’t have to rush to beat phobia. Sarmita and the article think the virtual reality
exposure therapy will offer many positive effects, but I recommend them to pay
close attention to it.
Lastly, I read the article, “Indigenous groups,
Amazon’s best land stewards, under federal attack”, from Seokwoo Hong’s blog in
group 3 because of my interest toward the protection of Amazon indigenous
tribe. According to Mongabay article,
it says that federal government attempts to develop region of Amazon protected
by indigenous people, and against them indigenous people are struggling to
preserve the region. As for it,
Seokwoo Hong thinks that people should protect the Amazon region of indigenous
people for cultural diversity and environment. I also agree to the opinion of Seokwoo Hong because
nowadays many minority groups are destroyed and gone by the thoughtless
development. I think minority groups are culture and heritage in themselves and
they influence many good effects on the environment. Seokwoo Hong and I don’t want Brazil government remove
indigenous people as the article says to protect them and the environment.
To sum up, I selected those three articles for
the following reasons : the sympathy
to Indonesian girls, experience of
phobia, and concern for the
environment and indigenous people. I
oppose to Woohyuk Cho’s opinion that the special treatment to women is unfair
at the first article. Besides, I
understand Sarmita’s experience and have her some tips at the second article. Finally, I consent to Seokwoo Hong’s contention that
indigenous people should be conserved for many reasons at the third article. It was a good opportunity to understand peers’ thoughts
and broaden my point of view.
Sources.
1a. Cho,
Woohyuk. "Woohyuk's Current Events Spring 2017." Week 3: Blog
Post 1b: Asia: Indonesia: Survey Finds Widespread Violence against Women.
N.p., 31 Mar. 2017. Web. 07 June 2017.
1b.
Aritonang, Margareth S. "Survey Finds Widespread Violence against
Women." The Jakarta Post. The Jakarta Post, 31 Mar. 2017. Web.
07 June. 2017.
2a. Sarmita.
"Sarmita's Current Events Spring 2017." Week 7: Blogspot 2b:
Oceania: Australia.:How Virtual Reality Spiders Are Helping People Face Their
Arachnophobia. N.p., 09 May 2017. Web. 07 June 2017.
2b. The
Conversation By Rebekah Boynton and Anne Swinbourne, James Cook University.
"How Virtual Reality Spiders Are Helping People Face Their
Arachnophobia." ABC News. N.p., 27 Apr. 2017. Web. 07 June
2017.
3a. Hong,
Seokwoo. "Week 6: Blog Post 2b: South America: Brazil: Indigenous Groups,
Amazon."Week 6: Blog Post 2b: South America: Brazil: Indigenous Groups,
Amazon’s Best Land Stewards, under Federal Attack. N.p., 11 Apr. 2017. Web.
07 June 2017.
3b. Sue Branford and Maurício Torres, "Indigenous
groups, Amazon’s best land stewards, under federal attack" Mongabay, 5
April 2017. WEB. 07 June 2017.
https://news.mongabay.com/2017/04/indigenous-groups-amazons-best-land-stewards-under-federal-attack/
