Suzan El Tahhan Bidoons: A Statelessness Plight in Kuwait ‫مجلة الدراسات القانونية واالقتصادية‬ plus reedify battering as a crime in Hawaiian. The idea of gender equality and women's safety at the expense of marriage runs counter to nationalist ideas (Strength of the nation lies in the unity of its families). However, through different factors that worked side by side with state intervention by laws criminalizing such acts, a form of cultural appropriation took place in redefining violence against women and battering in Hilo. Different sorts of rehabilitation programs played their role in making a change in the cultural beliefs of the people; thus, resulted in a consensus change coming from people's wills based on a shift in their ideologies." "Cultural appropriation, in this case, was fundamentally creative and represented a pluralistic form of resistance to global homogenization."91 However, "cultural appropriation is still an uncertain process as it's governed by the nature of change of both culture and human rights."92 In 1998 the American Anthropologists Association's Committee for human rights proposed a new declaration on human rights which asserted that: "People and groups have a generic right to realize their capacity for culture, and to produce, reproduce and change the conditions and forms of their physical, personal and social existence, so long as such activities do not diminish the same capacities of others. Anthropology as an academic discipline studies the bases and the forms of human diversity and unity, anthropology as a practice seeks to apply this knowledge to the solution of human problems."93 It is important to note that both human rights systems besides culture are always in a dynamic state. "HR system is constantly changing in response to new global Wilson, Richard A. “Tyrannosaurus lex: the anthropology of human rights and transnational law.” Pp. 342-369 in Goodale and Merry, eds. The Practice of Human Rights, 2007, P.348 92 Cowan, Jane K, Marie-Benedicte Dembour, and Richard A. Wilson (eds.). Culture and Rights: Anthropological Perspectives: Changing Rights, Changing Cultures, Chapter 2, Cambridge University Press, 2001, P.47. 93 Cowan, Jane K, Marie-Benedicte Dembour, and Richard A. Wilson (eds.). Culture and Rights: Anthropological Perspectives: Changing Rights, Changing Cultures, Chapter 2, Cambridge University Press, 2001, P.32. 91 38