"When women are honored, there the gods are pleased; but where they are not honored, no sacred
rite yields rewards...In childhood a female must be
subject to her father, in youth to her husband,
when her lord is dead to her sons; a woman must
never be independent. She must not seek to
separate herselffrom her father, husband or sons;
by leaving them she would make both her own and
her husband's family contemptible..."
34. The beliefs expressed in this excerpt would
agree with the Asian concept of
(SSWH2c)
A. The Mandate of Heaven
B. Filial Piety
C. Polytheism
D. Bushido