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Consider how the following quotes from the film make you feel:
-The Jews kicked us off our land and put us in this camp. – Sanabel
-God promised us the land of Israel and the Arabs came and took it! – Moishe
-I think it is our country and they think it is theirs. – Yarko
-I don’t like talking to Jews. I know then. They are mean and deceitful. –Mahmoud
-When I see a Jew I want to grab a stone and throw it at him. –Faraj
--If I could make my own future, all the Arabs would fly away. – Moishe
-We have our army to protect us. We have our firing range. And if the soldiers aim poorly, it’s okay ‘cause they might shoot an Arab.-Moishe
-I support Hamas and Hazboullah. They kill women and children but they do it for their country. THe more Jews we will, the fewer there will be. Until they’re almost gone. _ Mahmoud
-So we both think of the same thing. We each think of our relatives who have been killed by the other side. So we each want to kill each other! – Faraj
-In war both sides suffer. Maybe there’s a ‘winner’ but what’s a winner? People on both sides die. Both sides lose.-Daniel
-The life we live doesn’t allow us to accomplish our dreams. – Faraj
Some quotes reflect hatred of the enemy.
Where does this kind of hatred come from?
Why do some of the children seem to be willing to put aside their differences while others are not even interested in participating in conversation?
What kinds of things happen in your own community to teach or reinforce hate?
What can be done to fight this hate?
18 comments:
This kind of hatred comes from what they have grown up with and they only see one view. Some children can put aside their differences better then others because some are so set in their ways that they have a hard time changing their minds. Hate is reinforced in my community by gang fights and some group against groups in our own school. Things that could solve these fights could include just having someone be a leader in the group and stand up and tell them to stop what they are doning.
This hatred comes from their upbringing and possible experiences where they have either faced being physically or verbally attacked; or they have witnessed the "bad" side commit these acts and they create an automatic stereotype that everyone of the opposing group is extreme in the way they try to control Palestine.
Some kids will put aside their differences because they were taught or learned to empathize and to think about the opposing point of view, that maybe they could both be right, and they should get over it, not squabble or a city that they could live together in peace in. Some may not participate because they have such an opinionated view that it cannot possibly be changed for even a moment where they will let themselves possibly believe that they may be "wrong".
Some things that I've seen that reinforce hate are people in school talking about racial slurs and laughing about them (I won't name names) and these people think that they are amusing and "cool" although they are very much so not. People then want to copy them because they see the attention that they people may get because of the they things that they are talking about, people may believe that because the "popular" people talk about these things, that them degrading people will in turn make them popular.
The easiest way to fight this is to actually approach the people who are speaking these things and tell them NO! Normally I would ask someone if they know what what they're saying means, and most of the time, they actually don't know the meaning of the hateful words they are saying. If they DO know what they're saying, the best thing in my opinion is just to tell them to shut up, and that if they really believe and reinforce those things, that maybe they should just hold their tongue, or I will make sure that some type of action is taken besides myself speaking to the offender.
This hatred comes from them being seperated from each other their entire lives and they have grown up learning that the other side is bad and not the same as them. Some children can put aside their differences better than others because some children have seen things that others haven't and what they have seen they have transferred what the people did to all of the rest of the people of that race. Some people are not able to forget what some people did to their close friends and relatives. Others are able to look past it and try to make peace. Hate is reinforced in my community by people making rascist jokes and being discriminatory to people of different races. To stop these things from happening I could stand up to people and tell them that their jokes are not funny and that they should stop. I could also include people of different races into my friend group and not encourage discrimination.
This hatred come from what these children see and assume. They've grown up watching these conflicts and naturally, would take their family's side. I think that some kids want to speak with the enemy because they just want peace and really believe that they are very similar. I think some kids don't want to talk to the enemy because they have lost something to the enemy that was close to them(family, friends, land, freedom, etc.)
At my school I see people laughing at other cultures and their customs. For examples, such as the way a foriegner talks or how Jews celebrate their religion. Maybe we could have a day at school when we celebrate all cultures and even interact with their tradtions.
Maggie,
That is a great idea! Perhaps you could do this as a part of a civics project for next year, or get a group organized to get this going to be implemented next year... it really would be beneficial and I would be more than happy to help!
This harted copmes from the war, and naturaly you would be against the people you are at war with. But I think that the most common reason is that their parents hate some group, so it seems almost natural that the kids would side with their parents. It is the influence from home that seems to have the most inpact.
Some of the childern seem willing to put aside their differences and meet with others because their families are not that strongly put against eachother, and because the kids realize that they aren't that different from eachother. Some kids refuse to meet with others because their parents are strongly against the others, or the kids just haven't took the time to realize that they aren't that different from eachother.
Some things that happens in my community that teaches hate is when your neighbor is found with a garage full of stolen items, or when our neighbors play rap music at twelve o'clock at night, and the rap is so loud that you can hear it seven houses over. It gets really hard to sleep. To prevent this, I couldask the person to turn down the music so I can sleep!!!!
So Ryan, do you have a hatred of Rap of the person who is playing it, and do you HATE them or just dislike them and be irritated with them. Hate is a very strong and emotional word. Most people say, "I HATE tapioca pudding" But would you die to make sure that no tapioca would ever exist again?
Most of us will never experience true hate in our lives.
I believe that this type of hatred comes from what they have been taught as children from their guardians. I think that some children will participate because they want a better country and to be in peace and are willing to do anything to achieve peace. The children who are not willing to meet say that they want a better place, but are not willing to do anything to change the country. There are a lot of things doing with hatred that happen in our own communitites. Such things as having "slang" nicknames for certain religions or race. What can be done is that at schools the teachers can look out for this and the students as well can tell the adults when anything happens.
The hatred that they have come from what happens around them. The adults talk about how much they hate them. Some of the chidren are willing to put away their differences because there parents are kind of for it of because they want to understand both sides of it. In my our community there are people who fight because of the group of people they hang out with and because they act the way their friends do and not the way they should. The fights would stop if everyone would be nice and respect everyone else.
Eric
sam, on your later comment to ryan i agree that hate is a stong word, and not many people actually feel hate, they get caught up in the moment and think they feel like that. Though some people really do hate. I mean wihout true hate, is there true love?(i'm serious though.. is there?)
I agree with most people when they say that the hatred comes from the way they were raised and the things that their parents taught them. Usually, it's hard for people to adjust to other people's traditions/beleifs when you've believe your way for so long.
I think that all of the kids are very different, and that some decide not to participate and interact with the other side because of their strong beliefs, or what their parents beleive. Sometimes, maybe the kids have gone through such hard things that they just can't seem to forgive the other side. Even though some kids experienced these things, a few of them decided to forgive the other side and give them another chance.
I think that hate spreads. If you are friends with some people that are rasict against a certain group, you either strongly disagree with that person, or you follow what they believe. There are a great deal of different cultures and races in our school, and it's more than likely that at least 1 person is going to dislike someone because of what they look like or what they believe in.
We already have a "culture" day sort of thing at the Highschool, that I've been to before. There were stands set up with food, clothing, brochures and other things that were from different countries. There would be a stand for France, and a seperate stand for Jamaca. They also had little performances in the auditorium for the different cultures to share their culture's dances and stuff. I thought that it was a great way to show that there are different people in the world, and we need to respect them and their decisions.
The hate in some of these comments comes from what the familys think. Like many other people have said, if your family believes one thing you are very likely to believe a similar thing. Some kids are willing to meet each other because they believe that all kids are innocent and I agree with maggie in that some kids DONT want to talk to the other side because maybe they have lost something to those people. I see many people who dont respect other cultures in and around my community by either mocking it or assuming false things about it without getting to know anything. To fight this hate I think that we should study the cultures and religions of other races and see what those traditions mean to them.
This kind of hatred could only come from an endless fight and it is being fed to them from the elders in their society who only are willing to see their own point of view. I think some kids are willing to participate in the conversation because they are the ones who truely want to end the battle. They realize that the only way to stop the fighting is to make peace with their generation. The ones who think that the only way to stop the war is to fight will be the ones fighting fifty years form now.
In our community gang violence and hate crimes are what teach hate. Naturally, when a fight breaks out between different groups we will take the side of who ever is most like us, causing us to hate the other. I think that if there was a way to get different groups whether they be racial or religious groups to see what the other goes through, they might understand the other group and see that they are more similar than they thought.
This hatred mainly comes from the parents of the child. The children would not blame or dislike the others if not for the scapegoat the elders have embedded into their young and vulnerable minds. Some of them are willing to look past their parents childish arguing and think for themselves while others are still trapped in the controversy. Racism and exclusion because of ethnicity can sometimes trigger hatred. I wouldnt think that everyone treating everyone equal would get very far because there would still be people unhappy. I would think that just doing what some are doing now is working fine as long as we are not so blatent about it.
This hatred comes from their parents, school teachers, friends, family and strangers that they don't even know. They hear people talk about the other side and they think that these people are proving a good point so they believe it.
Some children can put aside their differences because they are just kids. They want to have fun and learn new things. The other children seem to understand what they are hearing and they take it seriously.
Hate is reinforced by bullies fighting people because they are different from them. it can be stopped by telling them to knock it off.
I belive that the hatered comes from what they were taught,& the opinoins they hear around them, as well as what their parents think.
I think some of the kids are willing to talk to kid from the other side of the conflict because they want peace in their country and they understand that to do that, they must have peaceful communication with the other side.
I think that to fight hate, we must first beable to look from the other person's perspective & try to understand what they think. From there, people must not teach hate, so it is not passed on.
-Katie
This is Brittany B.
Well i think some of these kids feel this way because they grew up knowing that they are bad and just taking their land and they have killed family and friends. So they don't want to meet the others. I also think the parents have a big affect on how the kids feel. I think the kids that do want to meet the others do because they know that the kids are still innocent and maybe when they get to know eachother they will come to peace.
In our community i notice how people will come to conclusion on certain religions for example from what they have heard from other people then they will make up their mind about that religion on rumors. So then these people will mock that religion or think that the way they do things is ridiculous even though they nothing about it! So I think people should be more open minded and before making up their mind actually go to were you could get the actual information so to the source and then see what they have to say then make up your mind!
This hatred comes from what they see in their life and what they are taught in school and by their parents and they are only taught one view throughout their whole life. Some of the children seem to be willing to put aside their differences while others aren't even interested in participating in conversation because some kids might have been taught to look at both sides while others were taught that only their side is right. In our community hate is reinforced by fights and people talking bad about other groups of people in our school. To fight this people could stand up for each other or people could tell them to stop and if they don't realize what they are doing we could tell them.
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