Why we hate what’s different
This passage was about understanding the reason why and how people learn to be prejudice, which is better than focusing the victims or rather the after effects of prejudice. This study helps us to understand where we learn to be prejudice; mostly we learn to judge others by holding them to the same standards as our own. Some of these are blacks are lazy, Hispanics or Mexicans are gardeners, these prejudices only get worse as time goes on that is because people never got the opportunity to leave their own culture to learn anything about a new culture, their minds are closed to learning new cultures and beliefs therefore they deal with it with anger and disgust from anyone that is different from themselves. There are those who actually would step away from their own comfort zones and explore other cultures, because of their curiosities they become more open minded and learn that we are not so different at all, and bonds and friendships are established. Homophobia is a big problem now days, before homosexuals were the type of people that were thought of as perverts and people would not let their kids be around them, there are some countries especially countries in the Caribbean that would kill a homosexual if they were discovered, therefore to avoid death they kept to themselves and pretend to be heterosexual, some of them would even get married and have children, lead normal lives these men also lead a double life as gay men. Homosexuality was blamed for the occurrence of the a.i.d.s epidemic around the world, because it was a lifestyle that was not accepted in society everyone seems to agree. I don’t agree with the homosexual lifestyle, I don’t feel comfortable with homosexuals in my presence as sad as it may seem I grew up in a world where men were men and only lay with women.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Holocaust
Holocaust
We’ve all read or seen the history of the holocaust in Germany during World War 2, rather you are Jewish or catholic, black or white, no matter what your religion or race may be these images would have a profound effect on you. I remember reading about the holocaust when I was in elementary school, I remember it being the saddest images I’ve ever seen and the stories of the scientific experiments that were conducted on children as well as grownups we stuff I’ve only seen in scary movies, this was not something I could imagine would ever happen in real life.
The holocaust was a ongoing development started by Adolf Hitler, who after taking over the presidency from the aged president Hindenburg, started slowly taking away the democratic human rights of the people, starting with freedom of the press, speech and the right to assemble. He also implemented his own private army around Germany that was loyal to only him and was willing to do anything he asked, called the Gestapo or storm troopers, these SS police would murder any of Hitler’s political oppositions, those oppositions submit all power to Hitler’s regime, which gave Hitler complete power of Germany.
During the 1930’s Hitler started practicing his racist ideologies, which was told that Germans were superior to all other races, he saw the Jews, gypsies and other races as inferior. With the German people sharing in his propaganda he then set his plan into action, he started blaming all of Germany’s economical problems on the Jews and gypsies, he then passed a law to force Jews to leave their civil service jobs and limit their citizenships which really limit their worth in German society, much like the way the Africans were treated in the united states, when you can view a person as less than human it becomes easier to mistreat them and not feel any remorse at all. Once the courts stripped Jews of their citizenships they were then started to be rounded to concentration camps and then executed and burned and buried in huge holes, nearly six millions Jews were reported killed in those concentration camps.
There are those people who would like to believe the holocaust was an actual event, even with the survivors of the concentration camps’ testimonies and the evidence of the tattoos they had to wear to mark them as Jewish and which concentration camps they belonged to. The diary of Ann Frank was a firsthand encounter of brutality of the times.
We’ve all read or seen the history of the holocaust in Germany during World War 2, rather you are Jewish or catholic, black or white, no matter what your religion or race may be these images would have a profound effect on you. I remember reading about the holocaust when I was in elementary school, I remember it being the saddest images I’ve ever seen and the stories of the scientific experiments that were conducted on children as well as grownups we stuff I’ve only seen in scary movies, this was not something I could imagine would ever happen in real life.
The holocaust was a ongoing development started by Adolf Hitler, who after taking over the presidency from the aged president Hindenburg, started slowly taking away the democratic human rights of the people, starting with freedom of the press, speech and the right to assemble. He also implemented his own private army around Germany that was loyal to only him and was willing to do anything he asked, called the Gestapo or storm troopers, these SS police would murder any of Hitler’s political oppositions, those oppositions submit all power to Hitler’s regime, which gave Hitler complete power of Germany.
During the 1930’s Hitler started practicing his racist ideologies, which was told that Germans were superior to all other races, he saw the Jews, gypsies and other races as inferior. With the German people sharing in his propaganda he then set his plan into action, he started blaming all of Germany’s economical problems on the Jews and gypsies, he then passed a law to force Jews to leave their civil service jobs and limit their citizenships which really limit their worth in German society, much like the way the Africans were treated in the united states, when you can view a person as less than human it becomes easier to mistreat them and not feel any remorse at all. Once the courts stripped Jews of their citizenships they were then started to be rounded to concentration camps and then executed and burned and buried in huge holes, nearly six millions Jews were reported killed in those concentration camps.
There are those people who would like to believe the holocaust was an actual event, even with the survivors of the concentration camps’ testimonies and the evidence of the tattoos they had to wear to mark them as Jewish and which concentration camps they belonged to. The diary of Ann Frank was a firsthand encounter of brutality of the times.
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Key to a great nation
Key to a great nation
Every country around the world has this belief that education is the key. If a society does not have educated members residing there, they would like be a chaotic living environment. We come to notice non educated or endogenous people lack the knowledge and discipline to produce a healthy culture. Imagine living in a country where education was not the main source of knowledge, not saying that these individuals would not survive but their survival would be extremely difficult, because they would not be able to make good decisions or choices, passing on the same old traditions that were handed down from generation to generations as the homo erectus of the early ages.
Knowing how the world around us works determine how long the culture may flourish, certain subjects such as medicine, geography, history and mathematics are all necessary to the survival of a country, the only way we can achieve the knowledge is through education. Studying different types of diseases and knowing how to prevent them and how to treat these different diseases will definitely increase how long your culture will survive.
I agree with the notion to have a successful civilization it can only be achieve through education, having a good education will unlock your mind and allow you the to be able to make good choices. Especially when it comes to choosing a leader, the reason a politician campaign is to try to sway the citizens to chose them over their opposition, that is because they have to appeal to what we know now as common sense there are a lot of people in this world that are not book smart but have common knowledge on how the world works. Many different countries share the same ideas on education because, education has for centuries been the centerpiece of how a society is defined and remembered. Without education and schools we would still be in the cave, which means our minds would be locked and refuse any new information.
Every country around the world has this belief that education is the key. If a society does not have educated members residing there, they would like be a chaotic living environment. We come to notice non educated or endogenous people lack the knowledge and discipline to produce a healthy culture. Imagine living in a country where education was not the main source of knowledge, not saying that these individuals would not survive but their survival would be extremely difficult, because they would not be able to make good decisions or choices, passing on the same old traditions that were handed down from generation to generations as the homo erectus of the early ages.
Knowing how the world around us works determine how long the culture may flourish, certain subjects such as medicine, geography, history and mathematics are all necessary to the survival of a country, the only way we can achieve the knowledge is through education. Studying different types of diseases and knowing how to prevent them and how to treat these different diseases will definitely increase how long your culture will survive.
I agree with the notion to have a successful civilization it can only be achieve through education, having a good education will unlock your mind and allow you the to be able to make good choices. Especially when it comes to choosing a leader, the reason a politician campaign is to try to sway the citizens to chose them over their opposition, that is because they have to appeal to what we know now as common sense there are a lot of people in this world that are not book smart but have common knowledge on how the world works. Many different countries share the same ideas on education because, education has for centuries been the centerpiece of how a society is defined and remembered. Without education and schools we would still be in the cave, which means our minds would be locked and refuse any new information.
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