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President Duterte: Labeled as sexist

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       Mayor Sara Duterte topped as the next in line for the presidency in the Pulse Asia Research Inc. results. In a televised speech of President Rodrigo Duterte, he advised his daughter, Mayor Sara Duterte, not to run as president. A site's headline refers Duterte as sexist due to his statement that woman is not for presidency. It got so many reactions, opinions, and even speculations that this is just a strategy to put her daughter in the limelight. So, here are some of my views and thoughts regarding this issue.        Saying that woman is not for the presidency is like stereotyping that all women can't lead a country. It's also against the gender equality and woman empowerment that everybody is fighting for so long. This statement is against our dignity as a woman that we are too frail to do something great.        On the other hand, when President Duterte said this statement, it was also understandable that he was overpowered by his emotion and concern for

Legalizing Abortion in Argentina

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       On the 30th day of December 2020, Wednesday, Argentina became the fourth and largest nation in Latin America to legalize abortion. Wednesday's triumph is from the five years of mass dissent walks by Argentina's grassroots women's movement. It started as a Twitter crusade against sexual orientation viciousness that utilized the hashtag #NiUnaMenos ("Not one less" – which means no more ladies lost to gender brutality).      Hearing it at first, I was so against it, especially when I saw how happy the crowd, specifically teenagers, reacted when they knew the verdict. From the videos that I saw from TikTok, they are so delighted jumping out of joy that they can already legally kill an innocent human being. Still, I was very wrong that I judged the situation without knowing the facts beforehand. In the law, legalizing abortion is just limited to victims of rape and if a mother's life is at risk like ectopic pregnancy.      Abortion is an example of mora

Barriers to Intercultural Communication

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"Culture is something that unites people."- Anastasiya O. Russia   Culture is the arrangement of shared beliefs, values, customs, practices, and artifacts that society members use to adapt to their world and with each other, transmitted from generation to generation through learning. However, in a broadly globalized world, not all individuals share a similar culture to the others. Practices that are sacred to one culture may be offensive to the other culture, so communication in a culturally different society is an incredible challenge. Intercultural communication is an approach of accepting and respecting the social contrast of different people. But it is not that simple since each of us has a hold to a certain standard towards our way of doing culture, so intercultural communication barriers exist. It is when a person takes their standards or culture as superior to another culture. Instead of understanding the other culture from their perspective, that person tends to