... Green Willow. She has been raised alone in these mountains and is only a poor, ignorant girl," said her father. The sentence is an excellent example of not only how women were treated throughout Japanese society at the time, but how women are being treated in present day Pakistan. Green Willow is considered inferior to others around her, and the father reacts in a manner that can best be described as embarrassment. This attitude is paralleled in Pakistani society, where women are often treated as second class citizens. It is truly believed by most in society that women do not deserve the same rights as men, which is the tragedy of the situation. An excellent example of this was a conversation between my mother and an old lady, whose daughter worked at our home. During the entire conversation everything she said regarding her daughter was degrading and demeaning, while ...

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