A Dance To Remember Essay

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In my culture, when we want to press how unfortunate an event is, we used to start with: “It’s so funny that…” But it’s not funny because it makes you cry. “A Dance to Remember,” is one chapter of a book, The Buenavida Dilemma. It is something that could make you cry when you are the person in that situation.
John will never forget what happened next as he and Linda walked into the basement hall. At first, he thought the band has suddenly stopped playing – but it hadn’t. The teenager nearest John and Linda had just stopped dancing to state at them. Like a stone thrown into the pond, a ripple of whispers and finger pointing radiated through the dance crowd. Realizing he was the only Hispanic there, John fought the queasiness in this stomach
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Unconsciously or consciously, people discriminate secretly and hope that nobody would know. In the macro level, many of society pretends that discrimination is not existing. However, it does. Racism is discrimination against people of color. Anti-female at the workplace, or the presidential campaign, is a shame that damage the society more than do any good because a half of the world is female. Workers, who are blaming immigrants steal the employment opportunities, will never have the job. People will not successfully make them a better person by saying other people is not as good as them. The modern society has many of norms which could lead and guide people to move toward in their life. However, people need to be aware of falsifying statements and guidance. Some guidance may fit for someone else, not for them. People live in the modern society as a part of it, they will interact, react, or crash to each other. In order to promote a civilization society, people need to consciously doubt and question to find the reason for their actions. Without a doubt, or a rational reason, even a look, it could cause a prejudice, the extension of the racial conflict in the United States, and the corrupting of the morality. In order to know what is right and wrong, people need to think as everybody is equally human being, then stop

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