Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Drawing upon humor for a change

      In this speech, Liza Donnelly expresses her point of view concerning the role and the place of the women in the world.
According to Liza Donnelly, between 1950 and 1960, from the childhood, the women was supposed to be gentle, wise and had to respect the rules instaured by the traditions and the culture (concerning the clothes, the behaviour...).
     But, thanks to this position and situation, where the women are the principal victims, we can say they have an important influence because they know very well the conditions and the heritage of these traditions. For Liza Donnelly, the women are the only who can have the potencial to bring change using for example the humour. Indeed, the humor is a mean to enter upon the reality with lightness in order to propose a thought about this subject.
     I think it's important to shade theirs words. The change depends to the countries and the societies. In the countries more developed, the women can express their point of view ans speak freely but there are still countries which are more oppressive and the womens don't have the freedom of expression.
Consequently, we can say the situation is the same in each society: all the women are educated with rules and traditons which are perpetuated from generation to generation. However, the situation can change in terms of the mentality.
     At last, in this video, Liza Donnelly affirms the fact that the sense of the humor changes according to the culture: I'm agree with this argument. Each country has his language with his references, his conventions and his code. Thereby, all the countries haven't got the same representation of the world because we know each language holds a particular woldview. Therefore,  the subjects and others things which could be funny are very different. For example, in France we have a lot of jokes about the politicians but in the dictatorships we can't find this type of jokes.

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