(By Temidayo Ahanmisi) -
America (read: The US) is a patriarchy.
Nigeria is a patriarchy.
America strongly discourages polygamy, domestic
violence, spousal rape and other acts which denigrate the self-worth of the
female person.
Beyond a sociological aversion for all these, America
creates and maintains institutional agencies to push her cultural preferences,
so that even though she remains a patriarchy, the birth of a female child is
not as tantamount to a mild tragedy which must be endured and borne stoically
at best, as most in Nigeria have been forced over time to see it as in our
enclave.
America is a patriarchy.
Nigeria is a patriarchy.
The American legal system won't let anyone on their soil
withdraw their underaged daughter and go marry her off to a man because she is
a girl.
In patriarchal America.
No cultural paradigm can be foolproof as they are
results and by-processes of conscious evolution of a developing species.
