Thursday, March 19, 2009
Blog #5
The US is a big “family” as it has different races of people in it--different cultures and structures seem across together in this society, but they also seem like repelling each other. In culture which be created within this complicated relationship of the races, a word is amazing me—color people. Although in today’s society, lots people speak for the different races, but I believe, there are still some people deeply and surely think that there are only two kind of people in this word—the whites and the colors. I did not have the experiment that someone treated me badly as I am a Chinese, but I did hear the news that some people have been treated badly as they are the color people. I also have heard two color people talking about the race. One of them is native Indian, and the other one is a black people. From the talking between them I can feel that they don’t think the white people treated them equally, and the native Indian even still thought that the white people are evil. I know the confliction between two races should have some reasons are from the history. But things have gone is gone, why we can’t build the family that we now have get together?
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I think it’s hard to forget past wrongs and that resentment can pass from one generation to another. I think we have made progress but that it will be many years before old resentment full dissolves if at all.
ReplyDeleteThat is interesting and I would agree...why can't people just let things go and move on with it. I know from history that the indians are still sore at the americans simply for what Columbus did.I have expierenced many situations myself when it comes to being white, but I try not let it get to me. Your right it is wrong to place people in to just two categories;I place us in one we are all humans and that is what we should be seen as.
ReplyDeleteI believe that people that live in this world are exposed to what they see when they grow up. Such as if they grow up experiencing or taught about racism it will exist to them in a conscious type of manner. This exist for so many people out there that it can't be erased off the map of the earth just like that. Racism it happens everyday, you see it in the news, you're exposed to it through the media. It changes the way people think about and perceive things, because of all of this people still often have conflicts between whites and colors.
ReplyDeleteMy experience is that people forget about racism and sexism when it is easy for them to do so. Under duress, however, people look for ways to distinguish themselves and cut other people out. It's a dog-eat-dog world. Idealism exists when everybody gets enough to eat.
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