Hey Everybody!

I really enjoyed reading Harnoor’s blog about how the violence is a normal everyday occurrence in Iran as shown in the graphic narrative that we have read: Persepolis. As we all know, with the revolution and war happening Marji sees violence on a regular basis. She sees it so much that it becomes normal for her, however having violence as the norm is not normal by any means.

As I was reading Harnoor’s post, I thought about my little cousin who was born and living in China under the One Child Policy (not anymore now that it’s been removed). Under the One Child Policy, my cousin is the only child of my uncle and aunt and even though he goes to Hong Kong regularly to visit the rest of my relatives (all my other cousins have siblings and live in Hong Kong where the policy does not apply) he finds that having siblings is weird and not normal and that having no siblings is normal. When I asked him this, he said that all his friends and all the people that he knows are all single children and that some of them even think that just even the thought of siblings is alien to them.

That’s just my little thought,

Fiona Tse