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Cultural Differences At The Olympics

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In this photo Lucy Nicholson captured not only Doaa Elghobashy (Egypt) and Kira Walkenhorst (Germany) competing in beach volleyball at the Olympic Games 2016 in Rio de Janeiro but also the cultural differences of two civilizations.

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Rokas Laurinavičius

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Rokas is a writer at Bored Panda with a BA in Communication. After working for a sculptor, he fell in love with visual storytelling and enjoys covering everything from TV shows (any Sopranos fans out there?) to photography. Throughout his years in Bored Panda, over 300 million people have read the posts he's written, which is probably more than he could count to.

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Rosalie Elizabeth 8 years ago

It's also oppressive to be expected to play a sport in a tiny bikini while men, same sport, wear baggy shorts and tank tops

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Monica Mac 8 years ago

Agree. I watched Australia play the Netherlands, and it struck me that the Aussie girls spent most of the match tugging down their tiny tops and getting the material from the bottom half out of their bottoms whereas the Dutch girls looked really comfortable in leggings and a short sleeved top. Those tiny outfits of the Aussies and many others, seemed to be impractical as well as pretty sexist.

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Corina Tusinean 8 years ago

i'm european and i also think that they could have had more fabric on without losing mobility, but the actual logic if it ...in theory the athletes are desexualized, the outfit is irrelevant, the sport movement is everything.

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Simon Pribac 8 years ago

Rosalie: if the world would be more Europeanized than it is now, the men would only wear Speedo

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Amanda Harker 7 years ago

You see the same thing in tennis outfits. Women wear tiny skirts and men get comfy shorts. Western culture thinks it's not sexist to have women role models (as sports players are to so many) wearing tiny cloths but it is. You should see the amount of people who look at you funny for NOT wearing a mini skirt in the height of the Aussie summer, like baggy knee length shorts are inappoprate.

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Maciek Ravs 8 years ago

"My little girl went for a fitting of her pre-school uniform today. Honestly, what should I tell her? How should I tell her why she has to cover herself in clothes that she doesn’t like? For the first time she wore something called “Maqna'a” (a hooded headscarf) and I think of how cruelly she has to tolerate the heat and how I freely get to wear more comfortable clothing than her. ???? From today on, just like the other women in this country, she has to confine herself to the prison of compulsory hijab to prevent the faith of some people from shaking! I wish I could do something for her. ???? My daughter, forgive me for not being able to stop them from taking your freedom from you, so that you, too, can choose your clothing as you wish. Forgive me, for I don’t have the honor or the power to defend the least of your human rights against a bunch of pseudo-humans." https://www.facebook.com/StealthyFreedom/photos/a.859102224103873.1073741828.858832800797482/1461195733894516/?type=3&theater

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Ahmed Abdullatief 8 years ago

congrats for being the drokiest person on earth!

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Maciek Ravs 8 years ago

https://www.facebook.com/StealthyFreedom/photos/a.859102224103873.1073741828.858832800797482/1237257702954988/?type=3&theater

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Amanda Harker 7 years ago

I think this was a really powerful statment because it comes from a Muslim man who clearly wants his daughter to be free to behave as a 7 year old child should. He also demonstrates that he is trapped into following a social requirement that is upsetting his daughter. This man's statment and the Facebook page that it comes from is insperational. I live in Australia and I went to school with quite a few Muslim teenage girls. They all covered their hair and wore long skirts but they did it willingly, they found it empowering not to 'have' to have their hair perfect or legs waxed and tanned like other girls at school. They respected my choice to wear pants and a t-shirt and I respected their choice to cover themselves, all 4 of us got along well. Ironically they all tollerated the heat better than I did lol.

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Marwah Ashrour 8 years ago

You do know that's culture and NOT religion? In Islam, woman is required to cover when she reaches puberty. However, it is a matter of choice. Islam does NOT force a woman to cover. It is the culture and the people. PLEASE read up on what Islam is really is and don't believe everything the media say. I am really sorry that you have such a bad image of what is Islam is. I assure you that those who blow up people in the name of Islam are NOT true Muslims. A verse in the Quran: "Because of that, We decreed upon the Children of Israel that whoever kills a soul unless for a soul or for corruption [done] in the land – it is as if he had slain mankind entirely. And whoever saves one – it is as if he had saved mankind entirely." Chapter 5. Verse 32 I hope one day your hatred towards Muslims will diminish :) Peace to you!

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Jake taylor 7 years ago

sorry but you really are a filthy racist. let me just stated what you said...How should I tell her why she has to cover herself in clothes that she doesn’t like? first you don't want to tell her that she is a muslim 2. you misjudged saying that she doesn't like but she has to please tell me those are not words of an uneducated person with a very high judgmental egoism. WHAT YOU DO IS OK, WHAT OTHERS DO IT DOESN'T SEEM OK...i personally don't like your daughters vagina being split into two pieces in tight jeans should i make a blog about that?!?!?! forgive me for not being able to teach your daughter what moral is but let the father enjoy in the bubbly a*s you racist c**t

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Jake taylor 8 years ago

A man can put his d**k into others man b******e and you take that as a normal and don't even care because that is none of your business and you are ok with it, but muslim women covering the parts that are attractive to men it's not normal, and you can't understand... you are one pathetic human being..

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Jake taylor 8 years ago

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Doug Stringham 8 years ago

I see this as a clear picture of how female oppression still exists in 2016.

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Nuwaira Ali 8 years ago

Nope. Oppression is declaring a white man's opinion as the ultimatum. Screw that, you guys have had your power for centuries. Let the woman who is "oppressed" speak for her damn self buddy!!

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SugarCat Memeميمي 8 years ago

How about men wear thongs playing football

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Daria B 8 years ago

Indeed. But, you know, sometimes I find it as tragic as interesting how, no matter which part of the world, no matter the religion, seems like all the countries in the world have had (or still have) a certain period in history related to female opression.

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SugarCat Memeميمي 8 years ago

If she was a oppressed she wouldn't be even playing the game so what do you know. Or is it that you men want to see her body

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Hisham Ali 8 years ago

Female oppression?? So you mean that covering the body is oppression?? But how ?? How you found female oppression in that picture ??

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Rosalie Elizabeth 8 years ago

It's also oppressive to be expected to play a sport in a tiny bikini while men, same sport, wear baggy shorts and tank tops

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Monica Mac 8 years ago

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Corina Tusinean 8 years ago

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Simon Pribac 8 years ago

Rosalie: if the world would be more Europeanized than it is now, the men would only wear Speedo

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Amanda Harker 7 years ago

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Maciek Ravs 8 years ago

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Ahmed Abdullatief 8 years ago

congrats for being the drokiest person on earth!

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Maciek Ravs 8 years ago

https://www.facebook.com/StealthyFreedom/photos/a.859102224103873.1073741828.858832800797482/1237257702954988/?type=3&theater

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Amanda Harker 7 years ago

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Marwah Ashrour 8 years ago

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Jake taylor 7 years ago

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Jake taylor 8 years ago

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Jake taylor 8 years ago

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Doug Stringham 8 years ago

I see this as a clear picture of how female oppression still exists in 2016.

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Nuwaira Ali 8 years ago

Nope. Oppression is declaring a white man's opinion as the ultimatum. Screw that, you guys have had your power for centuries. Let the woman who is "oppressed" speak for her damn self buddy!!

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