Since I arrived in Poland, surprised me a lot about their culture. One is the fact that men and women dance any style of music together. It can be rock , pop, house , popular and traditional songs ... Men and women always dance in couples and, in addition , they dance very well! This issue and many others I spoke with a guy at the wedding. He was surprised that I told him that in Spain, normally, men and women dance separately, and often, the man does not dance, just watches and drinks from the bar. This guy asked me why , if dancing is fun, and I said , many men think that dancing is not " men's business ". Because of this, we started talking about sexism . In Spain there is a lot of sexism , latin man can be considered sexist, though of course not always the case, but in general , we still have much progress towards equality between men and women. The way the Polish men treat women is different from Spanish men. As I said in previous posts, here is more matriarchal society than in Spain, but men believe they are in a duty to protect women by nature weak, and they believe that they have to work hard for their families, and women should care for children and home. Could say that is a very conservative society on the model of the Catholic Church. Yesterday, I was reading about this topic because I want to know what is the situation of women here in Poland. I could know that the number of victims of violence against women is very high but nobody wants to talk about this topic...
Stadístics:
Spain 2009: 55 women were killed by their husbands.
Poland 2009: 150 women were killed by their husbands.
But there are not stadistics because there are not law, studies, research...Everyone is silent... I could read that this problem must be solved indoors, "when we talk about family there are no individual rights" (Pope John Paul II said this). Is for this reason, there is no specific legislation on gender violence. And then, women can not do nothing... Furthermore, most of the time justify violence with the fact of alcohol. This is the sad reality. But, fortunately, not always is in this way. You can find very precious persons here in Poland. Just, I think, Poland must to fight for their rigths.
Sources:
http://polskaviva.com/2012/03/08/8-de-marzo-un-tulipan-y-no-te-quejes/
http://es.scribd.com/doc/84609563/Violencia-Domestica-Polonia
http://www.justiciaenlosandes.org/contenido/polonia-oculta-la-violencia-contra-las-mujeres-europa
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