While reading this thesis on how human culture is inferior to
human nature I kept thinking human culture and human nature doesn’t have to be superior
to the other. Its society and how they think a woman and a man should be
viewed. I don't believe woman is nature and man is culture. I believe both can
be nature and culture. They’re so many different examples of woman and man
being both. What if a woman doesn't want children and wants to work is she
closer to culture? If a man wants to adopt children and raise them on his own
does that make him closer to nature? Just because woman can give birth and a
man can't she is closer to nature. Man is closer to culture because he teaches
a boy to be a man.
You pose several interesting questions here. But think about how society reacts and treats women who do not want to have children and instead focus on pursuing careers (think Ella in "Night Thoughts)? How does society react, and does society condone or allow single men to adopt children (think Binh in "Live-in Cook" or the husband/father in "Night Thoughts" if he were to divorce his wife, would he get custody of their children? Also, what is the relationship between culture and society?
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