Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Prejudice

I did not know this before but when asked my dad what prejudic meant, he had said that it meant prejudging. This means that you judge something before you are aware of facts of a case. However, we do not actually use this definition when we talk about prejudice. Today, prejudice inclines to in a racial mater. We see the definition as "unreasonable attitude showing resistant racially". I have seen prejudice in my trip to Thaialnd. I was in a rural area and when I approached a store selling water, the salesman suddenly grasped me and dragged me in the store bargaining with me with wide spread eyes. He did not do this to other Thais in the store, but I think he had great expectations dragging me into the store because I was Korean. I think Korean tourists have a strong reputation of being wealthy ceratintly because this salesman was raising the price as we bargained. The effects of Prejudice are never good. This makes the other person degrading and isolated racially. For example my experience with the water salesman made me isolated and a little agravating because I was treated unfairly. I had to pay more!!

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

WhatI Know About the Holacaust

I know that the Holocaust is a term used to depict the genocide of millions of Jews during World War 2. This was part of a plan of immediate execution by the Nazi forces made by Adolf Hitler. However Jews were not the only ones executed. Polish, Romans, Soviet Union, and gay men were executed as well. The primary reason for this mass execution was due to the Nazis believing that the Jews were a threat to the German racial community. Germans believed they had to kill any other groups because of their racial inferiority, and thus they had an ideology that they would need to kill their alien opponent. The autobiography Anne Frank projects the hardship Anne went through as a Jew. She had to live hiding and the only thing she could do was to write in her diary. This diary is now one of the most well known books.