South AsiaJulie Boyland, Christine Chen, Emily Kim, Jehan Silva, Ankita Singh,

Pooja Srinivas, Diana Tappert, Moira Dewey

Where is South Asia?

Countries in South Asia Region

● India● Pakistan● Bangladesh● Sri Lanka● Bhutan & Nepal (Not listed in book)

Child Marriage in South Asia

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Video: The Cultural Tradition of Child Marriages

http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/places/culture-places/beliefs-and-traditions/india_childmarriage/

Benefits of Later Marriage

● Further opportunity for education

● Improved health for mother, less likely to die in childbirth

● Infant Mortality Rates decrease as marriage age increases

● Planned families are healthier and more well-equipped to

care for children

● Increased economic opportunities for mothers who received

education prior to marriage/childbirth

● Lowers CBR, which is beneficial for dealing with

overpopulation (especially good for India)

Child Marriage: A Rising Epidemic

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Movement to End Child Marriage

Relation to Human Geo Concepts: Child Marriages

● Cultural traditions that make up the mindsets of people are extremely difficult to change with simply outside forces

● Young girls getting married results in less education and a lower status for women, which leads to a higher CBR and more diseases like HIV/AIDS

Affirmative Action

● Castes deemed “backwards” qualify for special status

and guaranteed entry into schools or workforce.

● Lower classes take positions of more-prepared higher

caste members at universities and businesses.

● This is bad. Students are fighting to be considered a

lower class than they actually are.

Affirmative Action: News Report

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9mfqcjGPaI

Definition of Terms: Affirmative Action

Caste System

Examples of Affirmative Action

● 18%

● 35% 45% of

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15% to 7.5% to 27%

Other Problems

● political:

● economic:

● social:

● cultural:

Affirmative Action Wage Gap*

The top 10% or the 12.3 ratio refers to the "creamy layer".

The bottom 10% or the 1 ratio refers to the SC/ST/OBC's.

Proposed Solutions: Affirmative Action

● entry points

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creamy backwards● competition hard work

India: Population Overview

India: Population Under 15 years old

31% of the Indian pop. is under 15!

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○ overcrowding

○ overpopulation

○ competition

○ g a p impoverished

Helping India's Youth

● Youth = future

● child marriage = detrimental to the 31%

● affirmative action = detrimental to the rising 31%

Save India's youth from harmful practices and

discrimination save the future of India.