Rwandan Genocide: Impression Analysis

My personal assumption when it comes to the factors that might influence large sections of a society to be willing to commit mass executions against another part of society would be possibly due to hatred instilled in them at a young age resulting from their differences, they feel threatened by this other part of society, they feel superior to this other part of society in some way or they have been taught to believe executions are a just way of handling their differences. For example, mankind when young, is at a very impressionable and critical stage of their learning development and can be easily taught that abhorrence to others is acceptable if they are different from the rest of the society in anyway. It is also quite possible for the belief that committing mass executions is okay, even at an adult age, when a reward is given for this type of behavior. People also have the innate …show more content…
After doing a read through of the Rwandan Genocide, I noticed that the validity of my original perspective could be improved. For example, one concept from the Psychology 101 General Psychology textbook by David G. Myers and C. Nathan DeWall which can be found on page 442, is known as the attribution theory; and explains one important part as to why civilian Hutu’s took part in the massacre of 800,000 Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994. Attribution theory is explained here to be a way in which an individual can explain the way another might act due to the circumstances and their temperament. In the case of the Rwandan Genocide, they justified their killing through the attribution theory. Another vital concept which applies to the Rwandan Genocide that has been discussed in Dr. McCrea’s in