Hi Everyone!
For today's blog post I will be writing about what I have been learning in social studies for the past week.
Recently we have been focusing on discrimination and how there has been a drastic increase in discrimination during the past year. Mainly due to coronavirus, however, major violence has started to weave itself into the discrimination. Now it is not only verbal insults but there are people out there who beat up up others. Do you want to know what the reason is? it's because they are of different races, they think they are superior. But in reality, we are all the same race we are all human. We still have yet to become equal and accept each other, but with this behaviour of the world. We are just slowly starting to repeat history, and we won't be able to change anything. Unless we change ourselves, which is disappointing.
As an example, here is something I wrote about Arabic.
Can you make any connections to other stories / the wider world? Sentence starters “This reminds me of…” “This is similar to…” (E.g. have you ever seen someone be ashamed of their culture?)
This reminds me of how Arabic or people from Pakistan or Iraq are usually stereotyped as terrorists. For example, they are shown terrorising a high-security building or a city in general. Now, this is just what people assumptions are on people, as everyone watches the news to see what’s going on in the world. Usually, in the news, they show the bad things happening in the world. In the news, they have shown what Arabic have done and how it just shows how much bombing and war there is. Personally when I first saw something like this on the news. I thought that I would never want to visit there. The images in the news just showed bombing, fires, guns and things like that. Everything was just so graphic so I had just thought that in that area it was a complete warzone. But after learning about it I learned that there are also people suffering there. Also how it is not how the news makes it seem, otherwise that this makes people. Misunderstand and assume things about other races but that’s what they think because we are actually all one race.
Nice post, Rieya!
ReplyDeleteYou've introduced the post and I can see the questions you're answering.
I found it interesting to read your thoughts on the news. You're right, it's often the graphic stuff they show us but we don't often hear about the innocent people and we misunderstand. You're right - we start by changing ourselves. Thanks for putting in so much effort into informing yourself - this is what helps create change!