Theres nothing you can do about them. You could arrest the traffickers. Isnt trafficking girls as important as pirated DVDs? The intelligence officer laughed genially and threw up his hands. Prostitution is inevitable. He chuckled. There has always been prostitution in every country. And whats a young man going to do from the time when he turns eighteen until when he gets married at thirty? Well, is the best solution really to kidnap Nepali girls and imprison them in Indian brothels? . . . those girls are sacrificed so that we can have harmony in society. So that good girls can be safe. But many of the Nepali girls being trafficked are good girls too. Oh yes, but those are peasant girls. They cant even read. Theyre from the countryside. The good Indian middle-class girls are safe. Nick, who had been gritting his teeth, offered an explosive suggestion: Ive got it! You know in the United States, we have a lot of problems with harmony in society. So we should start kidnapping Indian middle-class girls and forcing them to work in brothels in the United States! Then the young American men could have fun too, dont you think? That would improve our harmony in society! There was an ominous silence, but finally the police officer roared with laughter. You are joking! the officer said beaming. Thats very funny! Nick gave up. People get away with enslaving village girls for the same reason that people got away with enslaving blacks two hundred years ago: The victims are perceived as discounted humans. India had delegated an intelligence officer to look for pirated goods because it knew that the United States cares about intellectual property. When India feels that the West cares as much about slavery as it does about pirated DVDs, it will dispatch people to the borders to stop traffickers. - pg. 23-24, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
Posted on: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 23:17:38 +0000
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