GENOCIDE PROJECT #1

Globalization
Respond to the following:
"The effort it takes for us to know so little about one another across racial and ethnic groups is truly remarkable. That we can live so closely together, that our lives can be so intertwined socially, economically, and politically, and that we can spend so many years of study in grade school and even in higher education and yet still manage to be ignorant of one another is clear testimony to the deep-seated roots of this human and national tragedy. What we do learn along the way is to place heavy reliance on stereotypes, gossip, rumor, and fear to shape our lack of knowledge." - David Shoem

To what extent do you agree or disagree with Shoem's ideas? (How ignorant are we of one another? How much do we rely on stereotypes, gossip, rumor and fear to make our way through the world?)=



->I agree completely with what Shoems is saying. I believe that we are all ignorant in one way or form, even before we get to know a person we automatically assume anything we want to assume, and that is not the best thing to do. Believing in the rumors, sterotypes, and judegments of others are just obsurd. Why should we generalize, or put this sterotypical label on people just to follow the rumors and ignorance of others. In my opnion in makes no sense to say things about a certain person, even if you have known them your whole life, just on the lack of knowledge you personally have or the lack of knowledege we all attain as individuals in a media based society. The ignorance we all share as a people is amazing, we all believe what we hear just because a person of another race "knows" about someone else. As a media based society we base all of our knoweledge and judgement on what is seen in the "big screen" and I do not believe that it is fair to sterotype based of what other people do, just because a Puerto Rican is singing reggeton doesn't mean that I am a reggeton only music lover. People today on a general basis go about assuming off of fear, anger, and frustration. Automatically just because you are scared of someone from a different race you say what you want and its perfectly okay with you, and you take it and run with it. As the entire world begins to realize, slowly but shurley, that we all base our life and we rely on media and on other forms of propaganda in order to fins out "facts about another culture, race group what ever you want to call them. As minorities, and even not so much only the minorities but just the entire world as a whole, bases the most idiotic assumptions on real life, and I bleive it should not be that way ever,it just puts a sour view of that certain person or thier ethnicity etc on everyone else.