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Woman ‘Foot Binding’ in Chinese Culture

Woman ‘Foot Binding’ in Chinese Culture

Is Facebook trying to humiliate women with ‘lotus feet’?! Every day I check my social media on my phone or on my laptop. A video came up on my Facebook feed shared by a friend. The video showed Chinese women with ‘lotus feet’. At first, I had no idea why these women had feet like this, which made me curious. From my research, I saw that ‘foot binding was ‘the cruel practice of mutilating the feet of young girls. It was seen as a sign of wealth and marriage eligibility from the 10th to 20th centuries in Chinese society’ (Strochlic…

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