Ethics Mini-Case: Crowd Funding
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Ethics Mini-Case: Crowd Funding
Core Ethical Beliefs
My core ethical beliefs revolves around fairness and responsibility. I can safely say most of who I am is due to the way I was raised. I am a girl and was born into a large, traditional Hmong family; by traditional I mean religious and strict. My parents expect us to have a smooth school day. To get into a fight or anything negative that required my parents being called would mean you were shaming the family. Even if we felt it wasn’t our fault, my parents would force us to take reconcilability by admitting fault and apologizing. My parents also expected us to be home a soon as school was out and for us to have good grades. In addition to that, as with most Hmong families, my parents taught us that it was females’ responsibility to garden, cook, clean, do laundry, care for the younger kids, and do other household chores. The men were simply responsible for building relationships at clan events and learning religious ways in order to uphold the family name. We attended shaman ceremonies nearly every weekend, and every time there was an event, my parents would herd me, along with my 8 brothers and 2 sisters to the relatives’ homes. Once in a while we would host our own shaman ceremonies. This meant the females had to wake up at 4 in the morning to start cooking. Once it’s time to eat the females would set the table and the men would sit at the table with elders and honored guests while the rest of the females ate in the kitchen. Normally the events end around 5 pm and that’s when the females start cleaning. The men helped by taking down tents and putting away chairs and other heavier items.
Growing up I remember, on many occasions, thinking about how unfair this all was. The men only had to do things when we had events but the girls had to do the chores every day. It didn’t help that I was the 3rd to the youngest. I had 7 older brothers who I felt were...