My first meeting of Talia, a young woman from Argentina it was met with a lot of energy and enthusiasm. My first interest was getting to know her and how her own culture played a part of who she was and how she got to who she was as well.
You see when I got into talking to her I became further intrigued with her ideas of religion playing a major role in her family and surroundings, despite the fact that she didn't subscribe to the same dogmatic practices that they all did.
Firstly her family and region in Argentina are relatively catholic in nature. They have strict rules in the religion that should be followed in order to avoid cultural back lash. So when I got to talking to her she first brought up the idea of her being a witch. Which is frowned upon initially however she also got into different sexualities as well. Both Polygamous as well as pansexual.
So despite feeling pressure from family and her social structures she manages to quietly hide her identity and still actively practice without feeling shame and guilt. As the overall project for this blog is for beliefs different from my own, I decided to focus on the cultural aspect and how it effected her polygamous ideals.
She brought up the fact that she does have to hide a lot of what she does as where she is from it's frowned upon to have multiple sexual partners. She feels that if she were to actively open up about those things without being under handed, in her own words, that she might end up disappearing or being shamed by her family to keep it under wraps and to try to change her. So she simply hides it.
While in America that is becoming more and more widely accepted these days, in Argentina especially under the new regime of power they have been put under she feels increasingly oppressed by these ideals that are being forced country wide. From anti-abortion laws to laws that fully support straight monogamy. However this wasn't the case until a few years ago, similar to the Trump administration actively doing similar actions, it was a very accepting country, to a country that quickly went into fear for her own life.
She told me a story of a man named Santiago Maldonado who had gone missing after an indigenous peoples march and said his disappearance was being covered up by the government. She felt that if something happened to someone like that who was a citizen everyone should aspire to be, what would happen to someone like her?
You see when I got into talking to her I became further intrigued with her ideas of religion playing a major role in her family and surroundings, despite the fact that she didn't subscribe to the same dogmatic practices that they all did.
Firstly her family and region in Argentina are relatively catholic in nature. They have strict rules in the religion that should be followed in order to avoid cultural back lash. So when I got to talking to her she first brought up the idea of her being a witch. Which is frowned upon initially however she also got into different sexualities as well. Both Polygamous as well as pansexual.
So despite feeling pressure from family and her social structures she manages to quietly hide her identity and still actively practice without feeling shame and guilt. As the overall project for this blog is for beliefs different from my own, I decided to focus on the cultural aspect and how it effected her polygamous ideals.
She brought up the fact that she does have to hide a lot of what she does as where she is from it's frowned upon to have multiple sexual partners. She feels that if she were to actively open up about those things without being under handed, in her own words, that she might end up disappearing or being shamed by her family to keep it under wraps and to try to change her. So she simply hides it.
While in America that is becoming more and more widely accepted these days, in Argentina especially under the new regime of power they have been put under she feels increasingly oppressed by these ideals that are being forced country wide. From anti-abortion laws to laws that fully support straight monogamy. However this wasn't the case until a few years ago, similar to the Trump administration actively doing similar actions, it was a very accepting country, to a country that quickly went into fear for her own life.
She told me a story of a man named Santiago Maldonado who had gone missing after an indigenous peoples march and said his disappearance was being covered up by the government. She felt that if something happened to someone like that who was a citizen everyone should aspire to be, what would happen to someone like her?
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