Week 4: Blog Post

Under the different culture, religion, country, and circumstance, Violence can have a very different explanation. From Intimate partner violence, it is one of the common violences we have been seen in real life. There are many TV shows and movies use intimate partner violence as a subject to show to audiences that the importance of a harmonious family. 34% of Chinese women and 18% of Chinese men had been involved IPV in their experiences(Parish et al, 2004). The famous person who has been known as a perpetrator in his intimate partner violence is Li Yang. And we can use his experiences as an example to analyze the cultural standpoint of IPV in China. The first time Li Yang violently abused his wife, according to him, the reason is his wife expressed some bad comments about China. Instead, he chose to use violence to let his wife change her opinion. When Li Yang described the situation, he showed a matter of course and seek recognition from outside voice. The most intolerable things is, there are few minority voices(extreme patriotism?) agreed with his views. In the cultural pointview, the main reason of Li Yang and his wife is patriarchal beliefs and self-esteem. For my opinion, I think the main risk factor of IPV in China is patriarchal beliefs. When Chinese women seek outside help with their trauma, there are a few people who are willing or working to help them. The public attention about IPV are limited, even I cannot found so much research about “IPV and China” online. Many victims remain silent in order to protect their reputation (by domestic violence) while fighting for their human rights. It has made the public’s emphasis on IPV very slow, and the associated trauma recovery has also developed very slowly. This health problem also is a social problem. Therefore, I think this health problem is an important thing that can be improved in the future but needs people to pay attention to it.

From school violence, it also involved a large population in China. From the News in CNN(2018), bullying, school under attack and physical punishment has always been a global problem, including China. I cannot provide more documentation to prove my opinion, but my personal experience and opinion in junior high and high school to describe school violence. School violence can occur very frequently in rural areas. However, the frequency decreased depends on the economic prosperity of the geographical location. When I went to my high school in Beijing, some of the students even surprised by the incidence of school violence. Because during their first 20 years of school life, they have not seen a real one. The Rehabilitation of trauma of school violence is even harder than the IRV. In rural areas, even basic medical facilities are hard to build comprehensively. Facilities for psychological trauma recovery should be determined by the level of responsibility of women’s protection associations in different rural areas.  

In this week’s lecture, intergenerational trauma challenge has been introduced(Lecture 4.1) and it reinforces a new way for people to think about both violence and trauma. It takes the discussion put to a physiological version. In my biochemistry course, I do learn about when a pregnant woman has been abused and the gene of expression that some of the child’s emotion expression may be inferiority, loneliness, or irritability. For my pointviews, intergenerational trauma included the study of DNA and human gene. This part connected biochemical and mechanical models of research and psychological discussion of trauma. Therefore, you can think intergenerational trauma as a bad gene came from your grandmother’s mother and our study of DNA cannot fix this gene through our mechanical models. We only can used psychological way to help with this problem.

Reference:

Parish, W. L., Wang, T., Laumann, E. O., Pan, S., & Luo, Y. (2004). Intimate partner violence in china: National prevalence, risk factors and associated health problems. International Family Planning Perspectives, 30(4), 174-181.

Howard, J.(2018). School violence: UNICEF releases new global statistics. CNN.com. https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/05/health/school-violence-statistics-unicef-study-parent-curve-intl/index.html

2 thoughts on “Week 4: Blog Post

  1. Hi Qinnan, I am in full agreement with the idea that violence can truly be interpreted in several different ways. However, in my point of view the inflicting of damage in various kinds can be deemed consistently as violence. Before Discussion progresses any further, I do feel very interested to ask whether or not patriotism or cultural beliefs can play a role in how individuals choose to represent their gender equality. Furthermore, do acts of violence work to be forms of symbolism and lessons? And when weighing the pros and cons of these several strategies that are applied, do the pros outweigh the cons or vice versa? When writing about intimate partner violence in the country of my choosing, I chose to reference several common aspects I found where common themes of the females being abused and the reasons that stem from to be of importance to mention. I commend you for linking this to the most practical examples such as the television show. From the articles, I can give insight regarding the ideas that the symptoms are long lasting and television shows can only further the cycle’s progression.

  2. You bring up some interesting information in this post. I wasn’t aware that they had done research about violence and the effects that it has on the fetus. I had heard that psychological trauma experienced by women when they are pregnant can physically effect infants, but I wasn’t aware that this was taking place at the DNA level. Did this course also talk about how long term IPV physically effects women?

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