lunes, 27 de mayo de 2013

Advantages and disavantages of being a 20 year old man in Chile

Today, the society in which we live, is constantly telling us what to do, how to live, how to behave, what to work on, etc. In Chile, this new type of modernity is guided by a high rate of sexism and models of morality and ethics. This causes cultural or economic differences between the sexes.
In this way, be a 20 years old man in the current society can be interpreted as an advantage in many senses (what is really unfair) which, following this line will be presented below.

Advantages to be a 20 years old man:
  • Being a student: this can be seen as an advantage because it will improve my future according to what society says (seen of the social and ethical human behavior). Now it is easier for someone like me to study compared with the times of my parents.
  • Have no responsibilities: I have no greater responsibility as maintaining a home, I just need to study and care of my career, only to be better paid. 
  • Freedom: Have 20 years gives to us more freedom, I can go to various places without my parents (and without scoldings!) that's a advantage for me, but, for a woman, is still a complication because they are seen as the weaker sex, so thats why parents take more care with them. 
But not everything can be advantageous for a man of my age, here are some disadvantages:

  • Being ignored by adults: The typical case where adults do not consider us to make collective decisions, where we are treated as immature, of not knowing the life, which in many cases plays against us, harming our dreams.
  • Love and be loved: An a disadvantage to be a man, can be that we never will know how feels the mother's love to his son, because we can not give birth. another fact of be a men, is that prevents us from being "pampered" because we are the "insensitive" sex according to the society.
We must remember that those advantages and disadvantages are only my view of life because of how the world is today and do not necessarily represent reality as it is.

1 comentario:

  1. Dear Ricardo,

    Word Count: 368 words. Too many!

    Thanks for expressing your point of view so clearly, though you need to be more careful in your writing. Check AND CORRECT the forllowing:

    Advantages and (disavantages) of being a (20 years old man) TWENTY-YEAR-OLD MAN in Chile (not “years”)

    In this way, beING a (20 years old man) in the current society can be interpreted as AN advantage in many senses…

    Advantages (to be) OF BEING a (20 years old man):

    ..according to what society says (seen of the social and ethical WAY?)

    …I just need to study and take (CARE OF) my career, only to be better paid…

    Freedom: BEING 20 YEARS OLD (Have 20 years) gives (to) us more freedom…

    for a woman, IT is still a complication because they are seen as the weaker sex…

    BeING ignored by adults...
    ...of not knowing (the) life,
    ... AnD a disadvantage to be a man, can be that we never will know (how feels the mother's love to his son), because we can not give birth.

    another fact of beING a mAn, is that IT prevents us from …


    Cheers,

    JC

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