Segregation is defined by the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance as "the act by which a (natural or legal) person separates other persons on the basis of one of the enumerated grounds without an objective and reasonable justification, in conformity with the proposed definition of discrimination."
Since the discovery of
the USA, black people have always been discriminated against. For example, they
had to be slaves for American people until the thirteenth amendment was passed
on December the 6th 1865.
In spite of this, segregation continued at water fountains, at restaurants, waiting rooms, at theatres, on buses and even at schools. But, a man wanted to stop segregation, Martin Luther King (1929-1968). His role in the history of the human rights movements as leader was very important. He inspired many people to fight against discrimination. And his actions have been heard.
In spite of this, segregation continued at water fountains, at restaurants, waiting rooms, at theatres, on buses and even at schools. But, a man wanted to stop segregation, Martin Luther King (1929-1968). His role in the history of the human rights movements as leader was very important. He inspired many people to fight against discrimination. And his actions have been heard.
"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant" M. Luther K. Jr. However, nowadays, racial segregation still exists.
We could see racial
segregation during the period if the "Stolen Generation". It was
a State Goverment law that Aboriginal half-cast children and European descent
should be taken away from their parents.
Practice tolerance and respect for gender, ideologies and cultures. Racism is transmitted and reproduced culturally. As you can see in the following video, this experiment was created for an antiracism Mexican campaign.
This makes think that parents have a huge challenge. This challenge is to bring up children full of values and principles. Giving the kids a good education.
Can you see the problem? You may consider these questions: Do we discriminate people because of their race, sex, religion, etc..? Do we act based on our prejudices?
Our challenge for the future is to cross that bridge of prejudice and discrimination and respect each other.
That's just the video that I commented in classes, talking about segregation and stereotypes, and how are those concepts so deep-rooted in the society. It is a very big deal to have tolerance and respect for other people, but if we want a better world we have to do that.
ReplyDeleteeverything has limits and so does the tolerance, we can't toletare violence and other things for example... but we hace to tolerate other cultures, skincolor, religions becouse it's part of the integer world. If we don't tolerate other thoughts, how are we tolerating other worst problems? like enviroment, political, domestic violence and so on and so forth.
More than a challenge, is a responsability. We'll have to be promoters of mutual respect, diversity and tolerance.
ReplyDeleteWe're here because we believe that education is the engine to avoid the human stagnation, fostering peaceful relationships as an integral and constructive formation for the protection of our integrity.
Yes, Dr. King inspires me.
Really it's a very heavy challenge, or as Nico said a big responsability. It seems that the human segregates since is a little kid.
ReplyDeleteAs you said Angie, we always are trying to show a very "open minded" ideology with the music that we listen or the books we read, but the proccess of transform our mind is much more complicated, even when we think that we are a liberal and democratic society, there still some aspects in our head that will segregate by whatever reason (however it doesn't mean that I'm trying to excuse the stupid acts of agression of the human). So we have to work as a united society to destroy these chains that only make us more primitive. The parents with the sons, the teacher with the students.
We must walk through this long path to overstep the barriers of the ignorance and the intolerance.
You ask some questions at the end of your post.
ReplyDelete“Do we discriminate people because of their race, sex, religion, etc..? Do we act based on our prejudices?”
The answer is yes. We are sort of born to do those things.
Or we are told to. For example, since we are born, they told
us that the black color is a bad signal or a just represent something bad.
In the other hand, the white color is always sign of something pure or good in other words.
They show us the white color as “the good color”, and the black as “the evil color”.
We grow up believing those things, and making associations in our heads
about the colors and the skins of people.
If we want to get over this, we have to stop that kind of thinking first.
And if we want to change, is up to us.
We can change it, understanding that we are nobody to judge our brother or discriminate him just because of the way he dresses, or the religion that he follows.
We are all the same, humans, and nobody is better or worse than the other.