"Social score cards give U.S. poor grades.(Database Review).“ By: Mick O’Leary

“The Human Development Index (http://hdr.undp.org/en/reports) is a project of the United Nations Development Programme. It started in 1990 and now covers 179 countries. It defines "human development" as a composite of people's longevity, educational attainment, and standard of living. The site has rankings on these components, as well as the overall index. In the main index, the U.S. ranks 15th after a leader group that includes several Northern and Western European countries, plus Japan and Canada. The overall U.S. score is pulled down by poor performance in a few criteria, especially those relating to gender equality, life expectancy, and school enrollment.”
-  My Observation: People think  that the U.S. should not allow women to have the same rights as men do, and the U.S. should not allow the women have more freedom as men.

 

“Cross about cross-dressing; A debate about fashion in Qatar.(A debate about cross-dressing in Qatar).”
By: The Economist (US)

“CROSS-DRESSING is on the rise among young Qataris. The local press says that more tradition-minded locals are upset by the growing number of young women affecting a masculine style of dress, baggy trousers, short hair and deep voices. These women, who call themselves boyat, which translates as both tomboy and transsexual (and is derived from the English word boy), are being seen in schools and on university campuses where some are said to harass their straiter-laced sisters.”
-  My observation: Women don’t have enough freedom in European countries, because people identify a women as a person who works in the house 24 hours and obeying the people living in the house 24 hours. A women has no social life.

 

On the threshold: youth as arbiters of urban space in early modern France.(SECTION III AUTHORITY IN VILLAGE AND URBAN LIFE)(Essay). Christopher R. Corley.

“The essay demonstrates that while young people articulated a field of honor similar to that of established adults in their neighbourhoods, their liminal status encouraged them to refine their concepts of honor and identity in urban areas not controlled by adults.”
-  My observation: Young people are not aware about honor in their life and they can’t change anything in their life- they have to choose something that they don’t want to do, in order, to show honor.

 

ASEAN discourse: the rhetoric of human rights and Asian values. Claire Sutherland.
Borderlands 5.2 (Oct 2006): pNA.

“Whether derived from universal or Asian values, a home-grown vision of human rights could turn a negative reaction against Eurocentric interference into a shared, constructive credo. At present, ASEAN is just as likely to talk up a storm of protest at outside interference as to concentrate its energies on moving forward in concert. Nevertheless, incremental steps have both practical and symbolic significance. The rhetoric analysed illustrates a lively debate between Asian and universal values as the potential basis for an ASEAN human rights mechanism. It remains to be seen whether one ideological interpretation will win the struggle over meaning and successfully establish itself as the region's hegemonic discourse on human rights. “
-My  observation: I think that the Asian Culture has more to do with beyond the human rights and that Asian parents want their child to develop more than the human rights.