Children: The Way of Treating Them

During my stay at the US, I observed that people treat their children with all the love, mercy, and happiness. Everywhere around the world, people treat their children well because if children were not treated good, they will treat their parents back when they get older. However, children should not be just treated well all the time even if they did something wrong. People should punish their children when they do something wrong so they can learn from their mistake and not to do it again. I noticed that in the US children of both genders are treated equally; however, back home, girls are treated better than boys because they are the princesses of the houses when they get older. To conclude, I think that people treat their children the same everywhere around the world in general, but some people may not treat their children the way they should be treated.

Families' Comparison

As we all believe that family is the most important thing in life; however, it differ from one culture to another in other ways. In my home country, family is the core of person's life. Arab families are, an average of five children, bigger than other regions of the world. The family gathers together for diner almost everyday and a person should be engaged with other family's ocasions.

Divorce is a common problem around the world; however, in Arab cultures most of divorce cases are for newly or young married couples. I noticed that in America, divorce is much common and it could happen to anyone, with no age limit.

In most of Arab cultures it is common to stay living in parents' house until marriage; however, in American and Western cultures, if a person reached eighteen years old, he or she leaves their parents' house.

Observing Elections

Last Tuesday, it was the election day for Americans to vote for the state senate and the congress; so I went to observe that to get to know how people vote and how is the procedure.
I saw people standing and waiting for their turn to go to the next spot to do the vote. It was so simple and easy; people just brought their ID card and go to vote. Eventually when I was observing, I remembered that back home earlier this year, I worked with one of the candidates to the senate of the Chamber of Commerce in Jeddah. It was so different; it was so crowded in the hall of welcoming people to go to vote. The boxes where people put their vote in were not seen as I saw it here, it was in another room inside that only voter and staff of the election can enter to it. A lot of candidates were giving voters fraud just to give them their voice.; for many people and for me it was so disappointing. So it is way different that what I saw here, maybe because we are not familiar to elections especially political elections because Saudi Arabia is a kingdom.
I really like and got exited to see the voting process and I hope I can earn more about it to be hoping that we could gain the experience from the U.S. to apply it in my country.

Human Trafficking = Modern Slavery

According to humantrafficking.org, human trafficking is the third largest and fastest growing illegal business in the world with $32 billion; victims are currently more than 27 million. Most of those victims are women (80%) and about (50%) are minors.
There are three different types of human trafficking which are bonded labor, child trafficking, and sex trafficking. First, bonded labor which is a kind of debt slavery created in a case of a person starts working for another person that have a debt from that working person. It begins when a person goes to another one to borrow some money and have to work for that other person who lent him/her money. Second, child trafficking is holding about 6 million children around the globe. Some children are working as a child soldiers and others forced for child sex trafficking. In Africa only, there are about 120,000 children who are forced to be child soldiers, and there are about 300,000 children around the world. Third, sex trafficking is the most common type of human trafficking, and the U.S. is the second largest for sex industry after Germany. Sex trafficking can make high profits, large demand, and growing AIDS epidemic.
There are many causes to this problem, human trafficking in general; for example, from an economic view, those people are the poorest individuals in the world because they don’t even own themselves. Today, $100 is the cost of a person which makes it easy for bad people to trafficking humans while in 1850 it was $40,000. From cultural view, high demand for cheap goods is something that bad people use to own salves. There are about 121 million primary school aged children who are not going to schools.
In my opinion, governments from all around the world should do something real, not just talks, to prevent that dark and evil business from becoming a big issue for those people to survive their lives. If it continues to grow more, it will be the first illegal business in the future, which might cause civil wars all around the world.