Haveria, Mikaela Marie A. May 03, 2017
152074 Ms. Patricia Ysabel E. Wong
Glory to Every Being: A Reflection on Glory Human beings have continually engaged themselves to the never-ending search for reason - for meanings and patterns of what has been and what has come to be. It is the innate gift of the human being to be able to think and reason. Because of this capacity, people have also constructed ideologies of who they really are. This has led to a competition of who is superior and who is more “gifted” among all. These are all ideas and are not part of the natural order, but time and society has led people to believe it is so. One idea ever so infamous but very hard to get rid of would be race. Race is actually an idea, …show more content…
One might think that modernity should have opened the doors to acceptance, equality, and open-mindedness among all, but such is not the case. Sadly, even leaders who are supposed to unite their nations adhere to such idea of divisiveness. The movie, Glory (1989), shows the evident impact of racism in a country that is in civil war. It tells the story of the Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, one of the first African-American units in the Union Army. The movie shows how black people are denied not only of their privileges but also of their rights just because they are …show more content…
The idea of being better than others is just something formed by a society of unjust competitors. Greatness of a person is found more within his being than in his physical appearance. No one is born better the other for greatness is earned. With so, one’s color does not determine his greatness or his future. Racial prejudice is not a source of true power. It could be seen as more of an inferiority than superiority because labeling and discriminating others to make one look better is a way to cope with one’s lack of own uniqueness. Society has formed this idea of race but it is the people who forms society. We will never be the slaves of society’s ideas for as long as we use our free will to adhere to our own
152074 Ms. Patricia Ysabel E. Wong
Glory to Every Being: A Reflection on Glory Human beings have continually engaged themselves to the never-ending search for reason - for meanings and patterns of what has been and what has come to be. It is the innate gift of the human being to be able to think and reason. Because of this capacity, people have also constructed ideologies of who they really are. This has led to a competition of who is superior and who is more “gifted” among all. These are all ideas and are not part of the natural order, but time and society has led people to believe it is so. One idea ever so infamous but very hard to get rid of would be race. Race is actually an idea, …show more content…
One might think that modernity should have opened the doors to acceptance, equality, and open-mindedness among all, but such is not the case. Sadly, even leaders who are supposed to unite their nations adhere to such idea of divisiveness. The movie, Glory (1989), shows the evident impact of racism in a country that is in civil war. It tells the story of the Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, one of the first African-American units in the Union Army. The movie shows how black people are denied not only of their privileges but also of their rights just because they are …show more content…
The idea of being better than others is just something formed by a society of unjust competitors. Greatness of a person is found more within his being than in his physical appearance. No one is born better the other for greatness is earned. With so, one’s color does not determine his greatness or his future. Racial prejudice is not a source of true power. It could be seen as more of an inferiority than superiority because labeling and discriminating others to make one look better is a way to cope with one’s lack of own uniqueness. Society has formed this idea of race but it is the people who forms society. We will never be the slaves of society’s ideas for as long as we use our free will to adhere to our own