Prof. Badenhorst's Presentation Of Racism Issues In Our Society

The main theme of Prof. Badenhorst’s presentation is about the racism issues in our society and the way we think of those issues and relationship between racism problems and ourselves. Prof. Badenhorst shown two clips to the class and asked us to identify the elements that constructed the nationhood. I believe Prof. Badenhorst tried to demonstrate how different elements construct different nations. Every nation has its unique culture that cannot be replicated. For example, in the Invictus, the green flag, world cup and the slogan “one team one country” are part of the culture of Africa. The class was easily to point out all the elements because Africa’s culture is very different from our own culture. People can very sensitive to the differences. The nation is an …show more content…
It is a social factor that influence our behavior and thought. Study nation is a way for us to know more about the world. Prof. Badenhorst’s show a quote to the class “The members of event the smallest nation will never know most of their fellow members, meet them or even hear of them, yet in the minds of each lives the image of their communion”. I totally agree with this quote. For example, when people think of the U.S., I am sure they would think of an independent society. In contrast, when people think of China, they would think of a collectivist society. This is because people from the same culture share more similarities. It is a thing bad about nation is that people confined themselves in their own culture. Nation needs to deconstructed because all citizens are equal. There are some of the things that can danger to the harmonious of a nation including invisibility, stereotyping, unreality, imbalance and sensitivity, fragmentation and isolation and linguistic bias. Those are all very good points. I am going to address stereotyping, unreality and imbalance and sensitivity because I believe those three elements are strongest related to