Biography of Mahatma Gandhi

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869 in Porbandar, India. He became one of the most respected spiritual and political leaders of the 1900's. Gandhi helped free the indian people from British rule through nonviolent resistance, and is honored by indians as the father of the Indian Nation.

The indian people called Gandhiji "Mahatma", meaning Great Soul. At the age of 13 Gandhi married Kasturba, a girl the same age. Their parents arranged their marriage. The Gandhis had four children. Gandhi studied law in London and returned to India in 1891 to practice. In 1893 he took on a one-year contract to do legal work in South Africa.

At the time the British controlled South Africa. When he attemped to claim his rights as a British subject he was abused, and soon saw that all indians sufured similar treatment. Gandhi stayed in South Africa for 21 years working to secure rights for Indian people.

He developed at method of action based upon the principles of courage, nonviolence and truth called Satyagraha. Using the principles of this, he led the campaign for Indian independence from Britain. India was granted independence in 1947.

On January 30, 1948, at the age of 78 a Hindu fanatic, Nathuram Godse who opposed Gandhi's program of tolerance for all creeds and religion assassinated him.

Source: Biography of Mahatma Gandhi, from website:

www.indianchild.com/mahatma_gandhi.htm

China's one child policy

It's true the fact that there a lot of people in China, but since 1979 when the "One child policy" was implemented another bigger problems started from its aplication.

This policy hasn´t been fair since its beginning, people from the rural areas were the most affected, a lot of pregnant women without permission were forced to practice abortion.

Other critics of the policy maintain it has led in some case to the killing of female infants because of the traditional preference for boys.

As a result a female infanticide has been increased because of these traditional preferences, even some practices has been implemented acording to this preference for boys, in rural areas families who first child was a girl are able to have a second child.

In conclusion, women and mainly girls get a very unfair treatment in China, an example of this would be that mothers let their sons to access to the health centers before that their daughters, in consequence a imbalance in China´s male and female population has been created.

Sources:

• China steps up "one child policy", from website:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/941511.stm


• Case study: Female Infanticide, from website: www.gendercide.org/case_infanticide.html

Comparative Chart

Sources: Lee, Jangho, Thomas W. Roehl, & Soonkyoo Choe. 2000. What makes management Style Similar and Distinct Across Borders? Growth, Experience and Culture in Korean and Japanese Firms. Journal of International Business Studies, 31(4): 631-52