Nobody can do a radical change in the
world, but we can make social integration on the first step. You can do it anytime, with your friends or people you know, everyday are
news about attacked people by xenophobia, racism, or just for being
poor (or vagabond). When we born, we don't have the opportunity to
choose the skin tone, contexture, or height. What would you do if you
can choose?
Many times our family
doesn't care about it, but it is a projected feeling. The
advertising, vogue, and also the toys are some factors to that kind
of behavior in the people. Everyday we are in exposure by that kind of
situation, the diversity is normal, and is our obligation to give a
cultural diversity vision and information about it to people in
formation. The children in that video without awareness give a
position that the adult people talks about, just because they are
their examples to follow. They don't really know what they are talking about but they are sure to say it: Black people is poor, they steal things,
and they are the workers, and the white people are rich, they don’t
do anything and they are the beautiful people. That’s that we watch
in the movies, or in the TV spots but there are many contrasts in
the real life. In places like guettos exists people of many types of
skin color, they were belonging to different types of social class.
On the streets when we
see vagabonds, we give money to them, because they are asking for it
and all we get is that we have a good feeling, because we are “good
persons”, but we all know what is the purpose about it, buy things
like: alcohol, drugs, cigarettes. That’s not a benefit for them,
that destroy them, and they don’t have money for health, finally
that action don’t change their social situation. Where are the
organizations that help to these people? Sometime you talked with a
vagabond, you heard his history, you tried to understand the
situation? They all had a life like the us but by a certain factors
they arrive to these place, and they don’t have a way to return.
When we know a foreign
person with blond hair we give all of us to make relations, but isn’t
the same with black people or the people on the streets (vagabonds).
We are all humans, What
do you have that they don’t have? The differences are in our minds,
It depends on us change that thought.
A music video by a ska band against racism
THE SPECIALS
What do you think that we
can do to change that thoughts in children?
This is a big problem on our society, and sadly has been goin on for as long as we can remember. Racism and Discrimination are main topics on "what we should change" discussions.
ReplyDeleteBut one thing that called my attention is what you said about homeless people.
Yes, its a general thought that homleess people will go buy drugs or alcohol with the money they get daily, but you never know whats behind them, their background.
It reminded me of a video i saw not so long ago, i think it surprised everyone, noone expected the reaction of this homeless guy. I hope you like it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Lki_IeM6bQ