Change your thoughts and you change your world (Norman Vincent Peale). We live in a society which is constantly changing with new ideas, new technology and new beliefs. Some of them are good and provides the opportunity for others to grow and expand their well being to further grow as people. Well on the flip side of that we find that many people are self-interested and just want to expand on their personal growth and not help others along the way to help the society grow as a whole. The world we live in is definitely far from perfect with difficult and unfortunate realities that exist all around us. Now there is no way we can fix every single problem that is in this world because with fixing a problem other mistakes occur and people as a society might not always agree with you. People are not perfect and it reflects in this world. But two issues i would like to fix in this world is racial discrimination and illiteracy. With a hispanic background both of these issues hit home for me because i have experienced them both first hand. All human beings are born equal. Throughout history we see that many races and cultures have been discriminated against and it is unfair! No human being has the right to tell another what they have to belief and just because they look different or have a different color of skin does not mean they are so different. Examples of times when outrageous crimes like this happened is during World War two when hitler tried to exterminate the Jewish
The U.S has a prolonged history of discrimination. In the late 17th century, when America declared as a free country, only the white gentility had the privileged of “freedom” and African American continue their life as slaves for many decades. As the country grows, it became a dream land, a refuge for immigrations fled from their country to seek freedom and pursuit happiness. However, the gene of discriminations stuck deeply in the mind of the early founding fathers; hence their descendents also obtained the hatred toward immigrations who look differently. In the late 1800s and the early 1900s, many immigrants such as the Jews, Chinese and Japanese immigrations came to America with the hope for
Honestly, before trying to point out mistakes in the world, point out your mistakes first. Don’t think you can change the world without changing the world first. Gandhi once said, “Be the change that you want to see in the world,” (Gandhi). Instead of trying to transform the world, alter the way you think. Differences between people are created when people feel superior than others, so stop thinking this and believe you’re all equal to everyone around you. Discriminating is the reason why history kept repeating itself and why people felt ashamed and humiliated. Most importantly, do not judge others. You have no idea what that persons been through and how he or she feels, don’t jump the gun before knowing all the facts. This way people feel safe in the world and feel pleasant about themselves since they have no
The works of Charles Darwin can’t be ignored here. He said, “The survival of the fittest” meaning the strongest of them all will survive and the weaker ones would perish. His works were highly credited in that time. At the time, this became an excuse to justify the discrimination already being
“If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him... We need not wait to see what others do.” — Mahatma Gandhi
The bible says, Galatians 3:28 “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” We are all seen alike in God’s eyes. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus shows us how even in the times when everyone was racist, he believed that we are all equal.
People shouldn’t limit their views, but they should limit how to express it and disagree each other with respect. No one chose his/her own race, ethnic origin, disability, or gender at birth. Human just born as
Imagine being treated differently or discriminated against for having brown eyes, while everyone else has blue eyes, and even segregated or separated for being different. Do you think it would be right not to be considered human beings for not being the same as the others? Something similar happened in the United States a few decades ago. In the book of A Lesson Before Dying, by Earnest Gaines; it describes very specifically how blacks lived, and how they survived in that period of time. This book is about a black man who is sentenced to death for supposedly killing a white man and a teacher is listed to help him die with dignity. After I read the book and watched the movie, I got to a strong conclusion
We don't discriminate other people we all think as each other as equal. We are willing to protest and start riots if people discriminate one one other because we as americans don't believe in racism and we don't think it's right. Like a quote from Martin Luther King Jr. say “I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. ”"Martin Luther King, Jr. Quote."
As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change toward him… We need not to see what others do.” (Mahtma Ghandi) A quote that I found online from the New York Times, which states that it is up to the individual to make a difference in our own world view. So it is up to us to help save what our ancestors and elders have protected since the time of
I believe that we all are equal no matter the color of our skin or the color of our hair. God created each one of us and we all need to respect each other and think about how others feel. We all have opinions and it is very important to share them but we don't have to become violent about it. In this world of hate and suffering, there is good and if we choose to focus on that than we can conquer any problem small or big. If we compare the good and the bad there is more good and even though the bad shows up in the media more. You always feel good after you hear about the
Every race can atleast say that they want to be granted with same opportunities as any other. Yet still, so many races passed judgement on blacks because they were colored and
Does it really matter where we are from, how we look, or our race? Well, I believe everyone’s equal no matter what, we were created by the same god and that is all that matters. Although many people think differently for example there were slaves in America from 1619-1863.These people would be treated very badly mainly because of their race and where they came from. Slavery stopped around 1863 right so we would have expected for racism to end after around 100 years later, though now in 2016 we still see racism going on, it might not be as much as 100 years ago but there it’s still going on. For example we see a lot of police attacking African Americans and Latinos. Recently it has been a lot of African Americans being shot by police, in which
ATTENTION: How is justice presented in our society? No one likes to be treated unjustly. No matter what your race may be or what gender you are; everyone should be treated fairly. For the world to have a moral society, people have to see each other without a sense of bias. When people base their opinions on one aspect of a person, they begin to judge them and look down on them. Justice can be apprehended when everyone is seen as equal and human, no matter what race or gender. The concept of stereotyping places a false impression on a group of people and makes others see them differently than who they are. If people would push back the assumptions that all people who have the same beliefs or ideas are exactly alike, everyone would be viewed
Discrimination is an unjustified, inexcusable crime against people of a different race. Most importantly, commonly discriminated races are discouraged and commonly stereotyped as negative people and are overall expected to be failures. This is why the percentage of white homeowners is 73%, while in second place is only 47% for Latino homeowners. “Those who failed were ceremonially accepted by other Indians and appropriately pitied by non-Indians.” Additionally, people who impose these ideals onto society split it up even further, dividing people who are accepting of others, and those who are not. This can apply to many subjects other than race, such as sexual identity, sexual preference, religion, and more. While it is understandable that some
Everything is not as it seems. In other words, “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” This message is applicable to racial discrimination and stereotypes. For example, from the 1200s to the 1600s, Europeans discriminated against Jews extensively. This was most prominent in Venice and England. Jews were forced to live on an island called the Ghetto in Venice and were cruelly oppressed throughout history in the Italian city.. In the 1200s, Jews were banned from England. Finally, they started to come back in the 1600s but had limitations because they were known for their high intelligence compared to the English, as well as in Venice. In Venice they were only allowed to be usurers, or loaners that demand high rates of interest, which is something