Blog 2

In the article “Haircuts or Turbans” Published in New York Times, the author, Amelia Gentleman talks about how young Sikhs’ are starting to get away from tradition and moving towards style.  India is continuing to decrease the amount of Sikhs’ who wear Turbans.  One cause of this is due to the increase of westernization in India.  "Jaswinder Singh, a lawyer and leader of a turban pride movement, estimates that half of India's Sikh men now forgo the turban."  Turban promoters want the Turbans to be used again.  They now try and sell a Turban as a fissionable item to wear.  Since women teach their kids less and less about wearing a Turban, they now give young boys free lessons on how to wear one.  By doing this they hope they can increase the amount of people to wear Turbans again.  India has also tried to use pop stars to sing about wearing Turbans to show young people that it is still a popular thing to wear.  This hasn’t seemed to be working well either.  India just might be in some big trouble. They may lose the Turban for good.

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One thing that puzzled me about this article is when they were talking about westernization.  It seems like to me that they don’t want to westernize, but isn’t that a good thing.  “How important is a Turban actually to an Indian?”  For my religion, being Jewish I wear a Kippah when I go to temple, but I don't where on anywhere else.  Maybe that is what India should start doing.  Have people where Turbans in the Masks but not anywhere else.  They still can sell them for being fissionable.  I am very positive that this idea would work, because right now half of the Indians are not even wearing them.  Since women teach less and less about wearing a Turban to kids.  I really think there isn’t much India can do for the future, unless they become some kind of dictatorship.  Overall I was very intrigued reading this article.

 

Blog 1

In the article “One-Child Policy Is One Big Problem for China” published in Newsweek, the author Susan Scutti talks about how China’s one child policy not only affecting china in a negative way but the entire world.  Ever since China enforced the one child policy, the gender ratio in China has completely changed.  Currently there are 32 million more males under the age of 20 than females.   China has realized that they have a problem that needs to be fixed.  China has slightly modified their policy in the recent years.  Now husbands and wives are allowed to have two children if they were both single kids growing up.  Since China’s population is already so massive, this change will only have a slight effect.  Before the one child policy, and still occurring today in certain areas, Parents who have a disabled girl would most likely have an abortion or leave the baby to starve to death.  They do this because they believe having a girl is just a burden so if it’s disabled they just kill it.  
Around 1851 and 1948 5 percent of female babies were killed by being left on the streets.  In China their are now an excess amount of unmarried men.  Men in China who are not married are called Bare Branches.  The one child policy has effected the entire world because now for the first time ever there are actually more men than women.     

http://www.newsweek.com/2014/01/24/one-child-policy-one-big-problem-china-245118.html

           

I was shocked when I read that people in China are killing disabled baby girls.  It makes me wonder if there is any way to help the baby’s.  I asked myself, "why isn't their anyone in China willing to take these poor children in?  I believe the reason why is because the government from along time a go somehow manipulated them into believing that having a boy is basically required and a girl is a burden.  I’m glad that this problem is not in our country.  I also was surprised when I saw the statistic of the gender ratio in china.  I knew this was happening but I never saw the statistic before it’s effecting the entire world.  I am extremely happy that China has modified their one child policy.  People should be allowed to have more than just one child.  I was really surprised when I learned about the Bare Branches.  I just can't imagine how many men are unmarried in China.  This really gave me a good perspective on how many people actually live in America compared to China.  I am extremely happy that I have the opportunity to grow up in America.  I’m not positive that China can come back from the effects they have caused but at least their trying to change.  

Self Intro

            My name is Robbie Goldberger I am 19 years old.  I have 4 brothers their names are Josh, Jordan, Noah and Eli.  Some of my educational goals include becoming fluent in Chinese; I also want to major in sports marketing.  I love going to lifetime fitness to work out or play basketball with my brothers, and friends.  Basketball is my favorite sport.  I also enjoy playing hockey with my friends during the winter.  I work at Jensen’s Food and Cocktail’s in Eagan.   I am a Busser; I go around the restaurant and clear tables.  I like this job because I get to work with wonderful people.  I also enjoy working with my brother Noah. Noah and I are twins so we do a lot together.