Racism and Tolerance
As everyone
knows, racism is one of the biggest problems that we have faced in our history
and it is also a current issue in our society. In the past, segregation took an
important role in some countries history, such as the case in South Africa with
the apartheid. Racism also leads to ethnic conflicts
among our worlds history. But, the most important questions about it are about
where racism comes from, and what takes to someone to changes his position of
racism to a position of tolerance?
A grate way to find
those answers is by analyzing the movie American History X, directed by Tony Kaye. In his movie, what really get the spectators attention is the process
of changing that the main character Derek, played by Edward
Norton, passes through during the movie. It is easily
seen in the movie that the racism that Derek had, came from the hate that
he developed along his live driven by his father’s death. Another point that
made Derek develop his racist ideas was the lack of contact that he had during
his life. Bellow there is the trailler of the movie.
After some events in
the movie, Derek starts to develop his tolerance with people from different
races and get rid of his neo-Nazi skinheads’ concept of life. The
major event that happened was the contact that he was forced to have with a
colored man in prison. With this contact made, he saw that the only difference
between then was the color of their skin, therefore there was no reason for
hate to exist since that they were equal.
As seen in the movie,
racism came from hate and hate comes from the lack of contact and knowledge. In
other words, the way to stop racism and start a culture of tolerance, is by
giving properly education and knowledge to people and also put then in contact
with different cultures, races, social strata, and costumes. By facing the
similarities that everyone has is that people really understand that we are not
that different from each other.
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