According to Oldenburg, in India, pressurized kerosene heaters are used along with a match to kill women, as “it is easy to pass off… as an accident because These stoves are prone to exploding. For Westerners, this is shocking because through our cultural lens, we glorify these accounts, ignoring how “Burning a woman to death in the Indian context is no more “exotic” than shooting her to death in the US context” (Narayan 102). . It is stories like these that perpetuate “border crossings,” or issues that emerge from multinational border crossings, and are subsequently misunderstood or unable to be deciphered in the new contexts and cultural realms in which they find themselves. The discernible meaning here, is the failure of Western societies to grasp the importance of dowry killings. The byproducts of “border crossing” contribute to this, because they work to cloud the lens used by American citizens to view the customs of Third World nations. As a result, women living in India do not have the same agency as women in the United States, as the glorification of violence – particularly dowry killing – generates a situation in which they are seen as “victims.” This Western “victimization” places all women in the Third World, as it pays no attention to their specific stories, but rather only the horrific tales