(Please watch the video since the minute 4:43, but if you wish you can see completely.)
As you can see, thanks
to the introduction video, the topic I want to talk about is racial
segregation. It is a very controversial issue in South Africa which has existed
for many years, since Europeans arrived to colonize this country and showed
that they were superior to the natives who lived in those area. After the World
War II, they dictated the first racist laws that were part of Apartheid, which
marked the lives of many black people for years, but after the arrival of
Nelson Mandela to the political world and then eliminating the Apartheid, began
a new system of "restoring the nation without segregation", but it
was not entirely true, since now racism was reversed, where systematic
discrimination makes black people demonstrate revenge and now white people are
suffering murder and racial violence.
Racism manipulates fear towards what is
different, manipulates frustration and low self-esteem of global masses, creating
an invisible enemy for them, when in fact such evils are somewhere else, even
in oneself.
But, are we taught to
be racist since a child? What is black is bad and what is white is good, or
vice versa? Through the experiment conducted to children, as you can see in the
video, they found that racism is transmitted and reproduced culturally, but Is
this a reliable conclusion? In my opinion, control questions were taken out of
context, I think so because I believe that aesthetics and culture features were
mixed. Ever since young we were taught that darkness is related to fear and bad,
and whiteness to light and good. However, there were kids who answered without
considering the different skin colors and they saw everyone equally, but others
didn’t, then who or what makes a child think this way? Society, technology,
parents? What do you think?
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