What We Think: Human Rights Question #1:
Should money or power and position in society be important in who you can marry?
Are your human rights denied if it is tradition, rather than law, that prevents people from marrying whoever they want?
Are your human rights denied if it is tradition, rather than law, that prevents people from marrying whoever they want?
Rights DeniedI think that you are denied your rights if culturally, you can't marry someone. Even though there's no law about it, you would be considered an "outlaw", "outcast" or "improper person", and that's not fair. Money, power, or position in society shouldn't be important.
Esperanza's right is being denied because even though it's not a law and just a tradition, Esperanza's mom is still not letting her marry Miguel. Wealth, class, property, and race do not matter. I don't think it's fair to not allow a Spanish person to marry a Zapotec. This is why I think Esperanza's rights are being denied. Yes, the rights in Article 16 are denied. If tradition and society tells them they can't, it will be nearly impossible to marry, like they want to. The people of the area believe that it is bad to marry someone of lower class society, so the parents will not agree to the marriage, the person marrying them will not marry them, and they will be shunned by their families and other people for the idea, and for actually doing it if they manage. It may involve running away or doing it in secrecy. It shouldn't be hard to be married. You shouldn't have to fight for your rights. I think money and power should not be a obstacle in getting married.The reason I think this is people are the same inside. It does not matter if you have money or not, if you have power or not. I also think your human rights are denied if its a tradition to not marry people like your servants. The promise when its kept in article 16 is you should be able to chose who you marry. Nobody should force you to marry or stop you from marrying. |
Rights Not DeniedMoney and power and position in society should not have much of an impact on the people you want to marry. This means that you should be able to marry anyone you want, if you both love each other, and you both want to marry each other. Position in society shouldn't matter, even if your spouse works for you! I also don't think that people are denying your right to marriage if it is just tradition and not the law. I'e broken family traditions, and now what I did is a tradition! Tradition has lots of meanings, which means that if what you are doing is not breaking the law, you should be able to marry the person you want.
I don't think that money or power or your position in society should have anything to do with who you marry or if you can get marry or not. However also I don't think that your human rights are denied when it is tradition and not the law holding you back because if it is tradition technically there is nothing saying you can't marry a certain person. Your parent's and elder's just might not be happy with you marring a specific person.
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