Racism has been a problem for many years. Although many people have tried to change the way we see each other, there is still strong racism in our world today. Middle easterners handle a form of racism that has adapted onto them because of actions made by terrorists groups from their homelands. For someone being brood on an idea is just unfair and has no meaning at all. Race is entirely made up, for there are no genes in the human genome that state race. In the article “To Any Would-Be Terrorists” Naomi Shihab Nye discusses the racial issues dealt by muslims, Arabs and middle easterners in general. People should not be beleaguered because of a group from their religion has imbued fear into you. Not all middle easterners are muslim, and more …show more content…
Nye states “I am humble in my country’s pain and I am furious.” (169) Nye feels as if her country has let her down showing the world terror, yet she knows her country is full of good neighbors. People see middle easterners as the enemy causing more pain in our own country then their needs to be. Racism affects many and it seems that everyone is a bit racist. The smallest little things can affect the way we think and see the world. Your parents are a great influence on how you think critically. Nye talks about her father and states “there is no one like him and there are thousands like him - gentle arab daddies who make everyone laugh around the dinner table,...” (169). This shows how one views their family as the people they make judgements based from and how they perceive the world around them. Your parents have the most influence on you because they raise you teaching you how to live. If your parents teach you hatred toward a certain race, that is not normal, that is creating racism. If you are grown up hating a certain ethnicity, religion, or country then there just is no changing that person 's
In today’s society the word “terrorism” has gone global. We see this term on television, in magazines and even from other people speaking of it. In their essay “Controlling Irrational Fears After 9/11”, published in 2002, Clark R. Chapman and Alan W. Harris argue that the reaction of the American officials, people and the media after the attacks of 9/11 was completely irrational due to the simple fact of fear. Chapman and Harris jump right into dismembering the irrational argument, often experienced with relationships and our personal analysis. They express how this argument came about from the terrorist being able to succeed in “achieving one major goal, which was spreading fear” among the American people (Chapman & Harris, para.1). The supporters of the irrational reaction argument state that because “Americans unwittingly cooperated with the terrorist in achieving the major goal”, the result was a widespread of disrupted lives of the Americans and if this reaction had been more rational then there would have been “less disruption in the lives of our citizens” (Chapman & Harris, para. 1).
As stated before, racism is not something that people thought of in the last ten years, it is an ongoing theme that has been flowing through the story of the United States. Starting from the enslavement of black Africans, and moving along to the days of when African Americans were separated from white Americans even though they lived in the same country and walked the same streets. Racism is seen all over the world. Hitler killed close to six million Jews during World War II due to the fact that he claimed that Germans were superior. He said that Jews polluted Europe and began “cleaning” it up. “Racism serves both to discriminate against ethnic minorities and to maintain advantages and benefits for White Americans.” This is what Mark Feinberg, PhD, stated about this issue and most people would agree.
In My Forbidden Face, Latifa explains how the Taliban are waging a cultural war against Western values. The Taliban’s goal in Kabul is to secure the environment where purity of people, especially of women, may be sacred again. However, in the book, Latifa discusses many issues that the people from Kabul experience at the hands of the Taliban such as the plight of women and men’s struggles, their views on news, media, and art, people’s education, and their religion. Throughout the book, the methods that the Taliban reinforce are very unreasonable, which leads to violence.
The Possibility of Evil by Shirley Jackson Works Cited Missing The insight on life can be influenced greatly on past experiences and those experiences that one only dreams about. These perceptions are windows into our thoughts about life. In the story "The Possibility of Evil" by Shirley Jackson, Jackson develops the idea how one perceives the world can have a great impact on her beliefs and values.
All through time, the world has been racist and intolerant of people different from themselves. Countless millions have suffered due to the bigotry of people that couldn't understand change or differences among one another. There was a time when any soul that wasn't blue eyed and blonde haired in Germany, anyone with darker skin where immediately classed as inferior and not human. Even now, when you are not aware, racism is still a considerable problem. But sometimes it isn't one person being racist against another, but rather one person being racist against them self. The movie crash shows good examples of how racism against oneself, caused by fear and misunderstanding, is just as malevolent and evil as racism against another person. Fear is what makes people act racist. Farhad is one of many examples in the movie of a person who recognizes his own race and paralyzes himself through his own fear. Farhad believes that since he is Persian he is immediately being persecuted against and cheated. He flips out at the gun shop when the owner was insulting him which just furthers his fear of Americans. After the events on 9/11, which are referenced a lot in the movie, Farhad thinks that anyone who is Middle Eastern isn't welcome in America. Even after the gun shop owner was rude; his shop was destroyed by racist people who hated him. It is this same fear of being cheated because of his race that makes him very untrusting to people he doesn't know. He calls a lock smith to come fix his door because it won't lock. He immediately thinks that Daniel is trying to cheat him and steal money from him just because of his past endeavors.
According to the article, “Terror’s purse strings” by Dana Thomas, fashion counterfeiting is not a victimless crime. Fashion counterfeiting is not a victimless crime and the profits from this horrendous crime may benefit international terrorism while also stealing money from the luxurious companies that produce the fashion. Furthermore, Dana Thomas quotes Magnus Ranstorp when she says, “Profits from counterfeiting are one of the three main sources of income supporting international terrorism”. In other words, Thomas used Ranstorp’s quote to in depth the purpose of the article, which is to detail the reprehensible use of counterfeiting fashion items in order to gain money to support terrorism. Fashion counterfeiting will never be a victimless
In his piece, “Human Dignity”, Francis Fukuyama explores the perception of human dignity in today's society. This perception is defined by what Fukuyama calls “Factor X”. This piece draws attention to how human dignity has been affected recently and its decline as we go into the future. Using the input given by the Dalai Lama in his piece, “Ethics and New Genetics”, the implementing of factor X and human dignity on future generations will be explored. Through the use of the pieces, “Human Dignity and Human Reproductive Cloning by Steven Malby, Genetic Testing and Its Implications: Human Genetics Researchers Grapple with Ethical Issues by Isaac Rabino, and Gender Differences in the Perception of Genetic Engineering Applied to Human Reproduction by Carol L. Napolitano and Oladele A. Ogunseitan, the decline on the amount of human dignity found in today's society as well as the regression in Factor X that can be found today compared to times past. Society's twist on ethics as a result of pop culture and an increase in genetic engineering has caused for the decline in the amount of dignity shown by the members of society and the regression of Factor X to take hold in today's society.
A very prevalent phenomenon in today’s day and age is racism. Racism is made up of the beliefs, actions and behavior of people in society towards one another, which is, in turn, based on a racial hierarchy. Its effect is moreover taken as targeting an entire community in an offensive way. On a personal note I’d like to add; whenever I travel abroad I can remember instances when I am being called out or referred to as “Arab” or “Paki”. It definitely does not feel very good, and I fail to imagine what it was like for a young African-American boy named Emmett Till, who was born and brought up in America during the mid-twentieth century, when black people were still struggling with their rights.
Kite Runner depicts the story of Amir, a boy living in Afghanistan, and his journey throughout life. He experiences periods of happiness, sorrow, and confusion as he matures. Amir is shocked by atrocities and blessed by beneficial relationships both in his homeland and the United States. Reviewers have chosen sides and waged a war of words against one another over the notoriety of the book. Many critics of Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, argue that the novel would not have reached a lofty level of success if the U.S. had not had recent dealings with the Middle East, yet other critics accurately relate the novel’s success to its internal aspects.
Within all of the texts mentioned, the theme of racism is present, just like in most of today’s societies. All of the researched sources deal with the effects of racism, the foolishness of it and the fact that it still exists in today’s modern and so-called advanced world. No matter how much social attitudes evolve, prejudice, hatred and racism will still exist within aspects of society, whether it be in the heart, in the mind or in the souls of those too ignorant to realize the damaging consequences. While technologically today’s world has advanced, if society cannot overcome issues such as racism and prejudice, it has not evolved at all.
When discussing the controversial authors of Indian literature, one name should come to mind before any other. Salman Rushdie, who is best known for writing the book “Midnights Children.” The first two chapters of “Midnights Children” are known as “The Perforated Sheet”. In “The Perforated Sheet” Rushdie utilizes magic realism as a literary device to link significant events and their effects on the lives of Saleem’s family to a changing India. In fact, it is in the beginning of the story that the reader is first exposed to Rushdie’s use of magic realism when being introduced to Saleem. “On the stroke of midnight/clocks joined palms” and “the instant of India’s arrival at independence. I tumbled forth into the world”(1711). Rushdie’s description of the clocks “joining palms” and explanation of India’s newfound independence is meant to make the reader understand the significance of Saleem’s birth. The supernatural action of the clocks joining palms is meant to instill wonder, while independence accentuates the significance of the beginning of a new era. Rushdie also utilizes magic realism as an unnatural narrative several times within the story to show the cultural significance of events that take place in the story in an abnormal way.
Cultural Competence with the Middle Eastern culture is some that I’m sure many of us have had to deal with at some point in time in our lives. Ever since 9/11 most of the Middle Eastern culture has been persecuted for events that they did not support or honestly have any knowledge were going to take place in the first place. However because they share the same race, religion and skin color they have been attacked because of something someone else chooses to do. Even before these events took place the cultural competence with this culture has been very challenging for many people who are a part of this culture because many of us who come from different backgrounds and cultures have never taken the time to set down and actually try to better
Turn on the news and you are bound to see something about Islamic terrorist, you watch a movie about war and you bound to see Arab blowing up anything in their path to bits then they curse the western world. This image is spread throughout our country and has made a group of people singled out to be victimized. Before the attacks of september 11, 2001 Arabs in most roles of tv shows and movies were portrayed as terrorist, to stupid to understand how much money they had, they were overly attracted to American women and only seen women as objects. These stereotypes have been ingrained into American society and have been very detrimental to our country.
Islamophobia has become a new topic of interest among social sciences, political leaders and media commentators. People amongst society have developed this phobia towards Islamic religion and people. It has become a novel “form of racism in Europe and American based on discrimination ...
Racism is a huge social problem in the world today. Many races today are being discriminated for being a certain race. Racism has been a social problem for a quite long time now, and it is still a social problem. The vast majority are being discriminated because of a certain group of a race, or person, done something that was awful, but this does not mean the whole race is to blame for the actions of others. Other races are looked down upon because of the color of their skin or maybe because they look very different. Racism has led up to genocide because one group fears another, or because of the way a race looks. A person who is racist is not born racist, they are taught to be racist or they see other people being racist, and they want to