martes, 21 de abril de 2015

WHICH IS BETTER: BLACK OR WHITE?



(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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