“Learn to embrace difference”
“No man is an island” is a well-known quote from the English poet John Donne. The significance of this old saying still holds true in today’s society. But what happens when the society where a person lives in denies the person proper recognition it deserve just because of the circumstance he is born in? As social creatures we are not designed to be isolated from each other’s company just based out of the skin color, the social class standing, and other circumstances we did not choose to be in. Like Father Boyle’s Tattoos on The Heart where Lula a special ed kid was deprived of the basic proper acknowledgement he deserves just because he is born mentally challenged. Similarly, Rodriguez’s The Republic of East L.A. …show more content…
We start to question ourselves for not standing up in what we believe in and there are effects of that we tend to be remorseful of. In the testimony of Ysela, on how Pompi her brother during the 1989 war in Panama saw a “’ a tiny Panamian kid, about five years old... (a soldier) put his weapon to the side of the kid’s head and blew his brains out’”(142). Ysela’s brother was told not to tell anyone, he was being suppressed by not being able to address the incident freely and Ysela using pathos, expressed that “Pompi wasn’t ever the same…he never said nothing. But he never forgot that Panamian kid” (142). Pompi identified himself with the kid, due to the fact that they are both Latinos and due to the fact that there is still strong sense of white supremacy in our culture; He questioned and struggled with his identity as person of color, as a Marine who ideally is supposed to fight fair and fights for a good cause. Expressing remorse and genuine sorrow for the pain caused by wrong decisions usually involves some form of voicing out and being heard. That would eventually cause internal change which could turn out for the better or for the worse for an individual but in the case of Pompi, he was not even allowed to accept and express this feeling of remorse properly, and he ended up committing suicide. …show more content…
Indifference is not caring what the other people do, say or think, it is not that you hate the individual nor do you love them but rather feeling nothing and not caring about the individual. We do not raise our voices, no arguments or debates, so everything may seem okay on the surface but because we do not care on who is right; we do not give any effort, or if we felt hurt by another individual’s words or actions we would just ignore it. Trust is not an issue, because we could not careless about earning or having the other person’s trust and vice versa. Having indifference as an attitude could not only cause illusion of being alright but it could also lead to death not only of an individual but a whole society if we do not speak up and voice out what we have to say. Like how Matsamuda groans and asked "Why did the Japanese Americans let/ the government put them in/ those camps without protest?”(2-4) and the even bigger question is why did Americans let this happened right in their own country? Her poem used logos and pathos to reach out to her readers and the tone she used was full of regret that she expressed that she "should've tried self-immolation/should've screamed bloody murder"(12, 20) nobody even voiced out their opinion on such horrible acts against the incarceration of the Japanese-American community just because of what happened during world war two. Which led to the
“No man is an island” is a well-known quote from the English poet John Donne. The significance of this old saying still holds true in today’s society. But what happens when the society where a person lives in denies the person proper recognition it deserve just because of the circumstance he is born in? As social creatures we are not designed to be isolated from each other’s company just based out of the skin color, the social class standing, and other circumstances we did not choose to be in. Like Father Boyle’s Tattoos on The Heart where Lula a special ed kid was deprived of the basic proper acknowledgement he deserves just because he is born mentally challenged. Similarly, Rodriguez’s The Republic of East L.A. …show more content…
We start to question ourselves for not standing up in what we believe in and there are effects of that we tend to be remorseful of. In the testimony of Ysela, on how Pompi her brother during the 1989 war in Panama saw a “’ a tiny Panamian kid, about five years old... (a soldier) put his weapon to the side of the kid’s head and blew his brains out’”(142). Ysela’s brother was told not to tell anyone, he was being suppressed by not being able to address the incident freely and Ysela using pathos, expressed that “Pompi wasn’t ever the same…he never said nothing. But he never forgot that Panamian kid” (142). Pompi identified himself with the kid, due to the fact that they are both Latinos and due to the fact that there is still strong sense of white supremacy in our culture; He questioned and struggled with his identity as person of color, as a Marine who ideally is supposed to fight fair and fights for a good cause. Expressing remorse and genuine sorrow for the pain caused by wrong decisions usually involves some form of voicing out and being heard. That would eventually cause internal change which could turn out for the better or for the worse for an individual but in the case of Pompi, he was not even allowed to accept and express this feeling of remorse properly, and he ended up committing suicide. …show more content…
Indifference is not caring what the other people do, say or think, it is not that you hate the individual nor do you love them but rather feeling nothing and not caring about the individual. We do not raise our voices, no arguments or debates, so everything may seem okay on the surface but because we do not care on who is right; we do not give any effort, or if we felt hurt by another individual’s words or actions we would just ignore it. Trust is not an issue, because we could not careless about earning or having the other person’s trust and vice versa. Having indifference as an attitude could not only cause illusion of being alright but it could also lead to death not only of an individual but a whole society if we do not speak up and voice out what we have to say. Like how Matsamuda groans and asked "Why did the Japanese Americans let/ the government put them in/ those camps without protest?”(2-4) and the even bigger question is why did Americans let this happened right in their own country? Her poem used logos and pathos to reach out to her readers and the tone she used was full of regret that she expressed that she "should've tried self-immolation/should've screamed bloody murder"(12, 20) nobody even voiced out their opinion on such horrible acts against the incarceration of the Japanese-American community just because of what happened during world war two. Which led to the