Etgar Keret's What, Of This Goldfish, Would You Wish?

The Race in Human Race
Discrimination, the act of segregating someone because of how they look, where they are from, and what they happen to believe in. Sadly, this is one of the many perspectives people view and know discrimination as. As disappointing as this may sound, a populace of people in the U.S. still has the audacity to rudely segregate people into racial, religious, and sexual preference into groups that eventually lead to conflicts within communities. Thus, three reasons why people should accept others who are different from themselves is because it would allow us to be more open-minded about racial prejudice, evolve and grow as a community, and prevent social conflicts.
Notably, being able to accept others for who they are will

One text that emphasizes this is the short story, “What, of This Goldfish, Would You Wish?,” by Etgar Keret. In this text, the story line basis around a teenage boy, Yonatan, going around door to door in different neighborhoods- the suburbs vs. the city, asking a question that would give a very insightful look into how different a the wish from someone in the city might be from someone in the suburbs. As a matter of fact Keret states, “these were wishes from just one [...], sleepy suburb of Tel Aviv. Yonatan could hardly imagine what people were dreaming of in the [...] Immigrant absorption centers full of broken trailers and tired people” (lines 39-44). This clearly highlights how social commentary is very important when discussing the massive rift between societies. For instance, say someone living in the city may ask for money, something someone from the suburbs would most likely describe as selfishness. Yet what that person from the suburbs wouldn’t know is that that person needs the money to feed and clothe their children. Therefore, not knowing or accepting others for who they are, what they need or believe is what prevents communities from