Description of the Aymara Society
The Aymara are an Indian people of the Andes and the Altiplano. This society is unique and numerous, with its cultural characteristics and customs that sometimes seem too cruel and not liberal enough by today’s standards. It is essential to find out how strongly victimization is manifested, how it affects the quality of life of individuals in a given society, and what its factors and participants are.
The organization of Aymara society is based on a vital family component. In addition, due to the outflow of the young population and the remoteness of the population from developed cities, its representatives have poor access to modern medicine and health problems (Gallardo-Peralta et al., 2022). However, despite the traditional way of society and the apparent resilience to violence, a severe problem of violence against women remains.
Female members of society often face discrimination and abuse, which include beatings, rape, and domestic violence (Reuters, 2021). Because of this, women in this society are in a constant state of fear for their lives. Since violence against them is not condemned by society in any way but is considered normal, it shows the victimization of the victims of aggression.
Victimization in the Aymara Society
Victimization in the presented society occurs exceptionally often, which may be another evidence that such behavior has become an ordinary course of things and requires the intervention of human rights organizations. In Aymara, males are most often involved in victimization and violence, which indicates the patriarchal structure of society and the disadvantaged position of women. Children also experience many types of victimization in a given society, who are often subjected to the same kind of violence as women (Gallardo-Peralta et al., 2022). At the same time, this phenomenon is predominantly moralistic since it is deeply rooted in the culture of the community.
The most common types of victimization are sexual, peer, and sibling, and caregiver (Pinto-Cortez et al., 2022). All this testifies to the high level of cruelty in Aymara society. This state of affairs is detrimental in its impact on women and the younger generation. Because of the violence and victimization of those who are ingrained in society, the younger generation is often forced to move and look for a better life. This phenomenon must be eradicated in any modern society because human rights are paramount.
Work Cited
Gallardo-Peralta, Lorena Patricia, Esteban Sanchez-Moreno, and Soledad Herrera. “Aging and Family Relationships among Aymara, Mapuche and Non-Indigenous People: Exploring How Social Support, Family Functioning, and Self-Perceived Health Are Related to Quality of Life.” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19.15 (2022): 9247. Web.
Pinto-Cortez, Cristián, et al. “Victimization and poly-victimization in a national representative sample of children and youth: The Case of Chile.” Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma 31.1 (2022): 3-21. Web.
Reuters. “Bolivia’s Aymara women train to fight back against domestic violence.” (2021). Thompson Reuters Foundation News. Web.