dimarts, 24 de novembre del 2015

YOUR-SAY

RACISM

The other day I was in Youtube, listening to Sia’s new song “Alive”. In the music video, it appears a little 9-year-old Japanese girl doing karate moves according to the song. Then, I looked at the comments and I saw a comment of a girl asking why an Asian girl was the protagonist of the video clip. There were people that answered telling her that she is a professional karate girl and, also, that karate was born in Japan, so it’s logical that this video is performed by a Japanese girl. But then, the girl started saying that Maddie Ziegler (the girl that is famous for being in most of Sia’s most popular video clips) is way more beautiful than the other girl. Then, people started getting mad and start telling her that both of them were beautiful and the fact that the Japanese girl is Asian doesn't makes her less pretty. Then, this girl started arguing with the people, telling them not only occidental people are prettier that the Asians, but the occidental people ARE SUPERIOR. Yes, kind of crazy. But she said that. I was surprised when I saw she said that. There are people that still think that?


Of course, (and unfortunately) there are still racist people in the world. There have always been; there are always people that think that they are superior or better than another one. For example, many years ago there has been racism against Jewish people in Germany or against black people in USA because of the slavery, etc. Nowadays, there are laws against racism and all types of discrimination saying that “we are all created equally”. But this doesn’t mean that now racism doesn’t exist.

Most of the time, racism is against black people and Arabic people, because many years ago, the “white” people considered them inferior, and that thought of superiority is still here unfortunately. I think one of the reasons why people are racist is because we tend to create stereotypes. For example, there are people that think that black people are bad, a bad influence, and when they saw a black boy they automatically thought bad things. Without knowing them, being totally ignorant. Or, now, with what happened in Paris, there are people that think that all Muslims or Arabic people are terrorists. Such an absurdity. I think that we don’t have to generalize; and, of course, the color of the skin is not a great point to base on to classify the people. There are good people and bad people independently from the color of their skin.

Normally, the racist are the white people, but not always. There are black people that are racist to white people. Normally, this happens because these black people creates a hate against white people because what they did to them in the past (for example, in USA, that black people were normally slaves) or because they are tired of the racism nowadays so they start feeling very angry and they end up being racist to white people.

But, changing the subject and getting back to Sia’s video, the girl that commented the video said that she was 12. All the people were arguing with her because of what she thought, but if that girl thinks that way is because her parents have influenced her. Well, it’s not always the case, but normally, it is. Parents influence their kids, and if the kids don’t change their mind, they will teach this to their children and racism will never disappear. Well, I don’t know if maybe one day racism will totally disappear. I think it’s very difficult, but it could be possible. I hope so.


SIA'S VIDEO:



ANOTHER VIDEO ABOUT RACISM:






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