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.
Theory of Knowledge
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.
