In this essay I will talk about xenophobia, racism and human persecution, which is cruel and unfair treatment of a person or group because of their religious or political beliefs or their race.

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23/11/10

Essay on human persecution

In this essay I will talk about xenophobia, racism and human persecution, which is cruel and unfair treatment of a person or group because of their religious or political beliefs or their race. A person is xenophobic if they show strong dislike or fear of people from other countries, while a racist person believes that some people are inferior because they belong to a particular race. These are really important factors that have changed the way we live today. And even nowadays there are a lot of problems that rise from these issues, even if they decreased compared to some decades ago.

Personally, when I come into close contact with people that do not look, speak or act like me, I don’t feel nervous. I don’t really know why, but I think it’s due to the way I grew up. I’m a Chinese person, but I’m born in Italy and I lived all the time here, up to now. From one point of view, I should have considered my classmate as foreigners, because they all looked different from me, but on the other hand, I shouldn’t consider my classmate as foreigners because in the end I’m actually also Italian because I have always lived in Italy. Even though I don’t have any prejudices about other people, this doesn’t mean that other people behaved in the same way on me. I actually never had very big problems about people that were prejudicing me, but sometimes happened. For example, one day when I was in fifth grade, some children, younger than me, offended me only because I was Chinese. But I knew that they didn’t really know what they were saying and I didn’t say anything about them. Another similar example of prejudice that it’s more known is about two Italian people, who are a bar’s proprietors, beaten to death a black person only because they suspected that he stole some money from the bar.

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I think that many racist problems that there are in the world, as the one that I mentioned before, are due to the prejudice. Many people judge a person from another country only on its aspect, without knowing him. This could be natural, but it’s also taught to us in some indirect ways. It could be natural because as a human instinct, people tend to act in a very careful way when they see a person that is really different from them. But this can be also taught to us even if in an indirect way. Usually, our feelings ...

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