Question 1, Word Count: Peter Singer believes that rich nations have the capacity to provide enough assistance to poorer countries that are suffering to reduce that suffering to very small proportions. Though we have the ability to prevent this kind of suffering, society as a whole has not made the decision to actively support struggling nations in a significant way. The government has also not offered any massive aid that would enable refugees to survive for more than a few days. There are many parts of the world in which people die from malnutrition and lack of food. We take our way of life for granted. Suffering and death from lack of food, shelter, and medical care are bad. Singer states in his writing if it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening without sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we should do it. Singer argues that the way affluent countries act in response to a situation like that of the situation in Bengal …show more content…
Orientals were a group of civilized people who were integrated in to European society. Westerners came up with ideas about culture in the East that were misrepresenting the people who lived there and causing prejudice against Oriental people. These ideas were patronizing and fictional, but most people believed that they were true. Chandra Mohanty describes five orientalist elements in Western women’s perception of Eastern women in her article “Under Western Eyes”. These elements include women as victims of male violence, women as universal dependents, married women as victims of the colonial process, women and familial systems, and women and religious ideologies. Mohanty argues that the universal categorization of large groups of women in the East is because of invisible barriers and classifications put in place by Western society. Women in Third World countries are quick to be labeled as poor, uneducated, traditional, and