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Just Different

By Malika Moustadraf

A trans youth relates her experience growing up in a Muslim environment.

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In N. Africa & Middle East Tags: cruelty, dignity, gender, relationships, feminism, discrimination, religion

The Start of the Affair

By Nuruddin Farah

James, a retired South African Professor, is trying to start a relationship with Ahmed, a young Somalian refugees who is an employee in his restaurant.

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In N. Africa & Middle East Tags: prostitution, exploitation, relationships

"I Only Came to Use the Phone"

By Gabriel García Márquez

Maria’s car stalls and she is picked up by a van of a mental institution. When she arrives at the institution, she is thought to be one of the inpatients and she finds it impossible to find her way out again.

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In Latin America Tags: insanity, respect for autonomy, public health, gender, relationships

The Model

By Guy de Maupassant

A French painter falls in and out of love with a model.

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In Europe Tags: Love, social class, sacrifice, compassion, manipulation, happiness, feminism, relationships

The Arrangers of Marriage

By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

A Nigerian woman enters into an arranged marriage with a Nigerian man and leaves Nigeria to live with her new husband who is interning to be a medical doctor in New York.

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In Africa Tags: arranged marriage, forced marriage, child marriage, migration, culture, truth, relationships, feminism

The Postmaster

By Rabindranath Tagore

A Calcutta native takes up the position of postmaster in a small village and strikes up a friendship with his servant girl. When he decides to return to Calcutta the girl asks him to take her with him and is heart-broken when he refuses.

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In Australasia Tags: love, social class, neurochemistry, relations, relationships

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  • Irony 1
  • Love 1
  • Manic-Depression 1
  • abortion 1
  • arranged marriage 1
  • authority 1
  • bullying 1
  • child marriage 1
  • child-rearing 8
  • compassion 1
  • conscience 1
  • corruption 1
  • courage 1
  • cruelty 11
  • culture 4
  • dignity 4
  • discrimination 6
  • domestic abuse 1
  • empathy 4
  • exploitation 2
  • false consciousness 1
  • family 1
  • feminism 7
  • forced marriage 1
  • gender 2
  • genocide 1
  • happiness 1
  • health 1
  • holocaust 1
  • incarceration 1
  • insanity 1
  • irony 2
  • love 1
  • luck 3
  • manipulation 1
  • meaning of life 2
  • medical ethics 1
  • migration 1
  • mixed marriage 1
  • morality 1
  • murder of tyrants 1
  • neurochemistry 1
  • paternalism 1
  • perspective 1
  • photojournalism 1
  • poverty 4
  • prostitution 3
  • public health 3
  • race 3

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