Acceptance or Discrimination?
The texts- “What of this Goldfish do you wish?”, “The Lottery”, and “The American Flag Stands for Tolerance”- can be viewed as acceptance or discrimination. According to Google, acceptance is the action or process of being received as adequate and discrimination is the unjust prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex. The theme of accepting others or discriminating is shown in each of the following stories.
In the short story, “What of this Goldfish would you wish?”, the main character Yonatan was filming a documentary. He purposely traveled the city to find a variety of different ethnicities which showed how he did not discriminate against different cultures, races, and ethnicities. He eventually stumbled across a man named Sergei. He was an old, lonely man who did not usually answer the door but answered it when …show more content…
This article showed a lot of discrimination against how Americans have a right to express disagreement with governmental policies by burning the American flag. “The American flag is a cherished symbol of our national aspirations. It is the closest object to national icon, rivaled only by the Constitution and Declaration of Independence. Given the widespread and deeply felt reverence for this symbol of what we perceive to be the best of our civilization, what is the harm in insisting upon a modicum of respect for it?”(lines 10-15). This quote explains that Americans should have respect for the flag because of what it represents. Freedom of speech and expression had a big impact in the article. “ At the core of what the flag symbolizes, then, is tolerance. More than anything else, the flag stands for free expression of ideas, no matter how distasteful” (lines 64-66). Although the article does not accept disrespect to the flag, it does accept freedom of
The texts- “What of this Goldfish do you wish?”, “The Lottery”, and “The American Flag Stands for Tolerance”- can be viewed as acceptance or discrimination. According to Google, acceptance is the action or process of being received as adequate and discrimination is the unjust prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex. The theme of accepting others or discriminating is shown in each of the following stories.
In the short story, “What of this Goldfish would you wish?”, the main character Yonatan was filming a documentary. He purposely traveled the city to find a variety of different ethnicities which showed how he did not discriminate against different cultures, races, and ethnicities. He eventually stumbled across a man named Sergei. He was an old, lonely man who did not usually answer the door but answered it when …show more content…
This article showed a lot of discrimination against how Americans have a right to express disagreement with governmental policies by burning the American flag. “The American flag is a cherished symbol of our national aspirations. It is the closest object to national icon, rivaled only by the Constitution and Declaration of Independence. Given the widespread and deeply felt reverence for this symbol of what we perceive to be the best of our civilization, what is the harm in insisting upon a modicum of respect for it?”(lines 10-15). This quote explains that Americans should have respect for the flag because of what it represents. Freedom of speech and expression had a big impact in the article. “ At the core of what the flag symbolizes, then, is tolerance. More than anything else, the flag stands for free expression of ideas, no matter how distasteful” (lines 64-66). Although the article does not accept disrespect to the flag, it does accept freedom of