Mero Dhangadhi

Naturally Nepal

Namaste! Join me as I take you on an adventure through Nepal in the heart of the Himalayas. Submissions are open!

socialfoto:

Dudh Kosi Valley by Tommy1158 #SocialFoto

Posted 515 weeks ago

Posted 516 weeks ago

koshigurajumy:

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Peacock Window, Kathmandu / 孔雀の窓

Posted 516 weeks ago

Immigration laws that enhance women’s political dependency also contribute indirectly to their economic disadvantage. As later entrants into the U.S. labor market, Nepali American women, like other South Asian women, are likely to suffer from cumulative disadvantages (Purkayastha 2005). They experience greater pressure to stay within the geographical area where their spouse is employed, and this geographical rooted-ness curtails their job choices. Even if Nepali American women are able to find paid employment, as immigrant women of color they typically hold lower-paid jobs than their male counterparts. Their job choices are further restricted because they are relatively less likely than Nepali men to possess skills that are valued in the labor market, such as fluency in English, professional training, or job experience in the United States. These factors, along with their near-total responsibility for all household tasks (to support the male family provider), means that they are mostly stuck in jobs that do not pay sufficiently.

When domestic violence occurs, women must weigh their economic and legal dependence against their need to break away from their spouses and be safe. Our discussions with Nepali American women indicate that because of their lack of knowledge about their rights as immigrants and their marginal position in the job market, they often consider staying in abusive marital relationships as a lesser evil. Thus, in the absence of real options, women stay in these marriages and tend to rationalize their decisions with references to the social beliefs that encourage them to fulfill their obligations in a marriage, irrespective of the spouse’s deeds and behaviors.

Bidya Ranjeet and Bandana Purkayastha, “Minority within a Minority” in Body Evidence: Initmate Violence against South Asian Women in America (via sapanaa)

Posted 516 weeks ago

bbcshorts:

29 JUL: Watch spectacular footage of a bridge collapsing in Nepal. Heavy flooding has killed dozens of people and caused damage to infrastructure in the country, following the monsoon rains. Find out more: bbc.in/nepalfloods #Nepal #Asia #NepalFloods #Floods #Landslides #BBCShorts # BBCNews @BBCNews

The monsoon season is causing widespread destruction of life, property and infrastructure all over Nepal. So many people have lost their lives already. Landslides and floods are fairly common during the monsoon however this year it’s more than usual from what my grandparents have told me.

Posted 516 weeks ago

arjuna-vallabha:

Nepali fountain, Patan

Posted 516 weeks ago

authorkurikuri:

shout out to forgotten asians.

shout out to south asians: asians from india, pakistan, sri lanka, bangladesh, afghanistan, bhutan, maldives.

shout out to ignored east asians from countries less romanticized than china, japan, and south korea: to mongolia, taiwan, vietnam, and further southeast to singapore, malaysia, the phillipines, east timor, brunei, cambodia, myanmar, laos, thailand.

shout out to ethnic groups within more known asian countries, like the tibetan people in china and the ainu and ryukyuan people in japan.

shout out to russian asians. shout out to central asians in former soviet countries, to people from kazakhstan, turkmenistan, tajikistan, uzbekistan, kyrgyzstan.

shout out to western asians in countries that don’t fit neatly into trivial western/european geographical boundaries of the middle east, of south asia, of europe, of africa.

shout out to mixed asians, to latinax asians, to black asians, to indigenous asians, to mixed south and east asians, and every combination.

asian people are more than just the same few ethnicities shown on tv.

I love how Nepal isn’t even on this list. Big shout out to all the “forgotten Asians”. Oh the irony.

Posted 516 weeks ago

thebloominuniverse:

Annapurna mountain range from Poon Hill, Nepal

Posted 517 weeks ago

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