During several occasions of a person’s life, mentors and role models stress the necessity of accepting each others’ differences, encouraging the celebration of individuality, and most of all, remembering the glorious Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. However, people still pursue and massacre their neighbors of diverse backgrounds. As the public slowly desensitizes itself to racial jests and injustices, accepting them as parts of daily life, prejudice and violence gradually target vulnerable minority groups. Simply, overlooked racist actions in public will slowly lead to massive massacres. Brought to the world’s attention after the events of the Holocaust, the horrors of racism show themselves in injustice, verbal
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Before the Holocaust, the German government encouraged the boycotting of Jewish businesses out of hatred for the Jewish people, creating an unfair disadvantage for the Jewish shop owners (Boycott…Businesses). In addition to racial injustices during the Holocaust, discrimination also occurs at schools and housing buildings today. Discrimination negatively influences the lives of minority immigrants and refugees. According to the article Canadian Ethnic Studies, “concealed racism can affect the probability of finding jobs, equitable pay, and adequate housing” (Beiser). Although some types of racism remain hidden and unexpressed, an employer’s prejudice blocks opportunities of fresh starts by denying immigrants favorable jobs and homes. African Americans also experience inequality due to their skin color. Their unemployment rate of 14% doubles the rate of joblessness in the white majority (Minority Rights). In the article Minority Rights, experts predict that an African American child will likely face a future of joblessness and learn in second-rate schools (Minority Rights). While racism sometimes stays on a smaller level, it easily escalates into …show more content…
In Israel, an intense hatred for Arabs resulted in the attacking of an Arab employee at a local restaurant and the firebombing of a Palestinian home (Strickland). Following the fall of the Twin Towers on 9/11, several religiously motivated assaults also victimized Muslims. In Rakhine, Myanmar, hordes of Buddhists with machetes razed thousands of Muslim homes, leaving hundreds dead and forcing 125,000 more people to flee (Yangon). During the Holocaust, Nazis forced Jews to live in inhumane conditions and slowly killed them off. Elie Wiesel, a miraculous survivor of the Auschwitz and Buchenwald death camps, recorded his memories in his book, Night. He recalled, “Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turned into the wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky” (Wiesel 32). Wiesel witnessed the deaths of innocent Jewish children, who the Germans heinously dumped in the fire and burned alive. Prejudice against a different race or religion leads to unspeakable atrocities. People must rise up to defend their neighbors from racial and religious intolerance and prevent the sickening events of the Holocaust from repeating
Before the Holocaust, the German government encouraged the boycotting of Jewish businesses out of hatred for the Jewish people, creating an unfair disadvantage for the Jewish shop owners (Boycott…Businesses). In addition to racial injustices during the Holocaust, discrimination also occurs at schools and housing buildings today. Discrimination negatively influences the lives of minority immigrants and refugees. According to the article Canadian Ethnic Studies, “concealed racism can affect the probability of finding jobs, equitable pay, and adequate housing” (Beiser). Although some types of racism remain hidden and unexpressed, an employer’s prejudice blocks opportunities of fresh starts by denying immigrants favorable jobs and homes. African Americans also experience inequality due to their skin color. Their unemployment rate of 14% doubles the rate of joblessness in the white majority (Minority Rights). In the article Minority Rights, experts predict that an African American child will likely face a future of joblessness and learn in second-rate schools (Minority Rights). While racism sometimes stays on a smaller level, it easily escalates into …show more content…
In Israel, an intense hatred for Arabs resulted in the attacking of an Arab employee at a local restaurant and the firebombing of a Palestinian home (Strickland). Following the fall of the Twin Towers on 9/11, several religiously motivated assaults also victimized Muslims. In Rakhine, Myanmar, hordes of Buddhists with machetes razed thousands of Muslim homes, leaving hundreds dead and forcing 125,000 more people to flee (Yangon). During the Holocaust, Nazis forced Jews to live in inhumane conditions and slowly killed them off. Elie Wiesel, a miraculous survivor of the Auschwitz and Buchenwald death camps, recorded his memories in his book, Night. He recalled, “Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turned into the wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky” (Wiesel 32). Wiesel witnessed the deaths of innocent Jewish children, who the Germans heinously dumped in the fire and burned alive. Prejudice against a different race or religion leads to unspeakable atrocities. People must rise up to defend their neighbors from racial and religious intolerance and prevent the sickening events of the Holocaust from repeating