Standards of living are defined by the family background as to the political and ideological heritage. The children of revolutionaries (those who died in the Korean War) are given special educational opportunities at an elite school called the Mangyndae Revolutionary Institute. However, the children and descendants of those who were in collaboration with the Japanese or the "exploiting class" are considered to be 'bad elements' in the society.
North Korea supports equality in aspect of the genders. The employment of women is expected and demanded by the South Korean government and those working with children under the age of four are expected to put the children in permanent nurseries if there is no family to take care of them while the mother works. However, the women are paid less than are men and still does most of the house work. The t'agaso, or the school system takes on most of the childrearing responsibility in the North Korean society.
VIII. Contemporary Culture in Turkey:
The most important social unit in the society of villages in Turkey is the nuclear family. Kinships are expressed through permanent relationships established in groups in the Anatolian villages. There is much fighting among the villages in Turkey and the government. The women in the urban and upper middle class are more likely to be educated than the working class of women in the country. The women in the upper class generally are employed in the fields of medicine law or teaching. Media in the country is state owned radio and television as well a privately own press and broadcasting companies. Media is not 'officially' censored but confiscation of 'offensive' material is known to happen quite regularly. There are two clearly defined cultures in Turkey. The first is that of an 'elitist' culture defined by the progressive and modernernistic and the second is a 'mass ' culture that is patterned by Islamic influence.
IX. The Culture of Islam:
The Islamic nations, Arab Emirates, Iraq, Iran, as well as many others in the same region of the world lives in a culture that is defined by the 'Qur'an. The Qur'an is a religious document that set out the type of lifestyle expected to be lived by the Muslim adherent. In a work written by Asma Barlas entitled "Believing Women in Islam": Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur'an" in a book review by Paul Williams, Univerisity of Nebraska in his interpretation states concerning the Muslim female that:
Although she is well versed in and directly engages in feminist literature and thought and the questions she raises are central to feminist discourse, especially feminist literature and Biblical criticism, she clearly distances herself from Western feminists in a variety of ways."
Islam culture holds the man responsible for protection of the woman which includes every woman within his family and surprising to some individuals the Qur'an does not "sexualize moral agency." Barlas [2002] Further stated by Barlas is that: "both women and men have the same capacity for moral agency, choice and individuality" and reveals that the Qur'an "appoints women and men each other's guide and protection." Barlas further reveals that Muslim men pervert the religion by acquiring harems as that is not part of the religious belief in Islam. However, strange to some and hard to accept after all the media hype since the 9-11 event, the Qur'an holds the Islamic people to the code of treating others, even of other religious beliefs, as they would like themselves to be treated which sounds suspiciously close to what Jesus called the 'Golden Rule' in Biblical scripture.
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