RACISM IN RELIGIONS BY MIRIAM CASTILLA

RACISM BY IRENE GONZÁLEZ

RACISM IN RELIGIONS by Miriam Castilla

https://www.emaze.com/@ACCOZCZT/racism-in-religions

Islamic State by Sofía Salas Ruiz

HOMOSEXUALITY AND HOMOPHOBIA.

Homosexuality is a sexual orientation that is defined as the interaction or sexual, affective, emotional and sentimental attraction to the same sex.

The term homophobia refers to the obsessive aversion to homosexual men or women, but generally also to the other people who make sexual diversity is included, as is the case for bisexual or transgender people, and those commonly held attitudes or habits associated with the other sex, as metrosexuals.

People who feel attracted to the same sex are not sick, they are not rare, they are not different, they find love in another person, like everyone else, and while this couple this good, nothing else is matters. We do not have to believe us more than them, we have the same rights and are equal people.

 'We are lucky' because more and more people are more aware of that and have been many achievements in the last years, since a same-sex couple can marry until they can adopt.

And now,what can happens if the world was upside down? 

Peace over racism

We have studied what racism is and different types of racism, so, now, i'm going to talk about different people that have fought against racism, looking for a peaceful world.
But not all of them have made the same things, each one fought in his way and with their personal possibilities.
ROSA PARKS
Rosa parks was a woman that became famous in 1955, when she didn't allow a white person to occupe the bus site where she was sitting. Because of that, the bus driver called the police and they arrested her, obligating her to pay 14 dollars as a fine. After that, the Montgomery Improvement Association was created to fight against the laws of                                                                      the trasporting system.


MARTIN LUTHER KING
He was a man that made a lot of speeches talking about racism and how to eliminate it.
He defended the rights of the black people  because they weren't considered equal to the white ones. Some white people also join this group of protesters because they were tired of the big amount of inequalities, and they all fought by not using violence.


There are more and more, such as Mandela, Ghandi, Oskar Schindler, Rigoberta Menchú, etc., but I've chosen Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks because they represent the most important fight against racism in USA, and there is where is celebrated the Black Month to conmemorate the fight made to get the same rights for both, white and black people, in USA.

I want to end my post with a sentence that is really beautiful, and a short video from the portuguese government:
"I hope people finally realize that there is only one race - the human race and we are all members of it"

Discriminations

Do you know how many kinds of discrimination are there ?
Maybe this power point can help you.

http://es.slideshare.net/alminarcomenius11/discrimination-9299431?from_search=7

Holocausto, what's is it?

This power point shows us several holocausts in history

 http://es.slideshare.net/atkinsonms/holocaust-power-point?from_search=4

RACISM AND XENOPHOBIA

RACISM ~>

Racism is a discriminatory attitude, which is to consider that people who have a certain physical characteristics, such as a different skin tone, are therefore inferior intellectually, socially and morally to other people without these characteristics.

XENOPHOBIA ~>

"Xenophobia" means "fear of foreigners". This attitude is when a person feels scared to another person who has come from outside its territory. Usually emerges when a person feels threatened by another newcomer and think that person is going to make their actittude bad.

In the world, many people of another race have triumphed.

An example is Nelson Mandela who died recently, and always fought for equality for blacks.

RACISM

Before starting my entry, I'm going to say you it's very important to me that you read it, because I think you'll know new things about how racism have existed from years.

First of all, do you really know what racism is? Racism is not only killing black people, or forbid them doing some things, etc. Racism is anything you do, say or think which include discriminating someone for his or her race, it means, the colour, the ethnic group, …

Have you ever discriminated someone? It is really common to look a toy and see it says: made in China, or to go to a Chinese supermarket because it is cheaper, or to buy the scarves that black people are always selling in the beach, or simply to tell a joke about black or Asian people, and those things are from our daily life and we don’t realize. 

But racism is not something modern. It had existed for years and years. Ancient Egyptians had slaves, and, talking about slaves, do you remember the American War of Independence? It started in 1775 and a very important part of the American soldiers were black slaves who fought trying to obtain the freedom. They were voluntaries to participate in the militias, but, as they were refused, they started to fight in their account.

More recently, the Apartheid from Sudafrica, which consisted in separate black people from white ones. But when I say separate, I refer to, literally, separate things. For example, there were parks, benches, shops, districts, etc, only for white people. And the same for the others. Their objective was to conservate the authority of the white minority over the black majority.

Actually, we are also racists. When most of us think in a black person, we always imagine them very dirty, trying to reach Europe in a dinghy, begging on the street, or stealing shops. But we don’t think in people like Louis Amstrong, Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, Sidney Poitier, Spike Lee, Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman, Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, and, of course, Michael Jackson. They were black people, and they became famous because their work.

From my point of view, one of the most famous black people in the world is Nelson Mandela. He died with 95 years, and he is an example of fight for the black rights. He spent 27 years in prison only for try to obtain rights to his country and, even there, he was discriminated for been black. When he went out, he continued this work. He became president of Sudafrica, and he obtained a Nobel Peace Prize.

Original video from the song "we are the world"

CULTURAL DIFFERENCES

Increasingly, managers must deal with multiple ethnic groups with very different cultures. Thanks to globalization, you are likely to work with Japanese, French, Chinese, German and all sorts of other nationalities. It is important to recognize that people from different cultures are different in a variety of ways, including

• different ways of looking at things
• different ways of dressing
• different ways of expressing personality/goodness

These differences can cause problems interpreting what the other person is doing. Some simple examples:

• In the US, a firm, short handshake indicates self-confidence and (heterosexual) masculinity. A limp handshake by a man can be interpreted (usually wrongly) as a sign of homosexuality. But in most parts of Africa, a limp handshake is the correct way to do it. Furthermore, it is common in Africa for the handshake to last several minutes, while in the US a handshake that is even a few seconds too long is interpreted as familiarity, warmth and possibly sexual attraction.

• In Britain, men do not look at women in the streets but in France it's common to do it. Recently, a French public figure mentioned in a speech that British people are all gay. The evidence was their lack of overt interest in women.

Here is a video about how African people move to America and learn how people live there.

Three basic problems: interpreting others comments and actions, predicting behavior, and conflicting behavior:

Some Perceptions of Americans:

-Europe & especially England. "Americans are stupid and unsubtle. And they are fat and bad
dressers."

-Finland. "Americans always want to say your name: 'That's a nice tie, Mikko. Hi Mikko, how are
you Mikko'



-Indian. "Americans are always in a hurry. Just watch the way they walk down the street."

 
In my opinion we must read more information about how is life in other countries.                 It will help us to respect other cultures

 

FUNDAMENTALISM

 Hello everybody! Today, I´m going to talk about a topic very subjective, as Rafa said in his entry. I´m going to try to explain what fundamentalism is and some things relate to it


Fundamentalism: any religious current that promote a literal version of their holy books

But fundamentalism can means two different things:

- Meaning 1: Islamic movement that does things that are in Koran, holy book of this culture

-Meaning 2: Christian movement based on Bible. holy book of Catholicism


 Now, I´m going to talk about each meaning


Meaning 1

Well, this one is the most aggresive and extreme. It takes place in some East´s countries ( Sudán, Irán...) 

In these countries, fundamentalism is very important. As a consequence, they have instaured some rules:






- Women have to wear special clothes where her body is hidden ( Hiyab, Burka...)

                                                                   

    - Alcohol and pork are forbidden











Meaning 2

This one was born in EEUU in 19th century. Catholic fundamentalism is against evolution ( Darwin´s theory) because this religious current thinks that we come from the God´s creation. 


     

This man is a creationist

It means that he is against evolution´s theory










As Islamic fundamentalism, Catholic fundamentalism has some thoughts which not everyone likes. Let´s see them:


- Prohibition of use of condom and abort: Catholic fundamentalism says that if a woman aborts, is killing a human being. Also, using of condom doesn´t like in this current





- Homosexual marriages: Church is against homosexual marriages but not against homosexual people. In conclusion, people can be homosexual but not making it public




Well, I hope that you enjoy my entry about Fundamentalism. See you in class! :D


PD: Some photos are in Spanish, but the objective is clear

Fundamentalism

Before starting: I've made this entry trying to be as objective as possible. You have no activities to do in the blog, but we'll do a debate next day in class, that's the importance of being neutral.

Fundamentalism has two definitions:
1. The belief that every word of the Bible is divinely inspired and therefore true.
2. A movement favouring strict observance of the teachings of the Koran and Islamic law.

To continue, I want to say that fundamentalism is subjective, due to that some people think that fundamentalism is a part of the Religious freedom.

We all know very well what's wrong with other countries' religions, such as Islam. We all know that Islamic fundamentalism is based on chauvinism, homophobia and people doing war (Yihad), and although it's a pity, a lot of countries have as law the Koran (the Muslim Holy Book), and apply them without allowing any critic inside their own country.

But, have we looked for Catholic fundamentalism? Sometimes, we forget that Catholic fundamentalist exist, although it's true that, luckily, it isn't as extremist as Islam. Spain has a majority of Catholics, but we haven't a state religion, so the law isn't applied as the Bible says.

I want you to remember that (if you allow me to insert my opinion, luckily) what I'm going to talk about is about Fundamentalism, not Catholicism, although it's true that Fundamentalism is based on what the Bible says.

To explain you the most important facts about Catholic fundamentalism, I want you to see these pictures. 
First of all, I want you to explain a bit more about a group inside Catholic fundamentalism, the creationists. These people say that the The Origin of the Species, the well-known Darwin's book is false, so they support that God created human beings. But, what's the position of the Church about that? The Church was against this book, but after a lot of controversy, it was accepted in 1950 in the encyclical Humani Generis. 
* Source of the information.



I'll try to take more care to talk about the following topics, gay people and contraception. First of all: the Church is against homosexual marriage, but it says that it's not against homosexual people. They can be gay, but in secret. In theory, a Catholic gay mustn't have boyfriend and of course mustn't have sex, and the same with Catholic lesbians. But I wonder: how a institution can accept homosexuals if the same institution doesn't give them the rights that a heterosexual have?

The right party in Spain, PP (usually bound to the Catholic Church), voted against the law which allowed this type of marriage, although it was finally aprooved. In response, they presented an appeal of unconstitutionality, what means that they were trying to abolish the law. Finally, the appeal was rejected.
* Source of the first paragraph.
* Source of the second paragraph.

Another point Church is against is contraception, it doesn't matter if it's with condoms or by abortion. 
*Source about contraception related with condoms.
*Source about contraception related with abortion.

In the past, Catholic fundamentalists did Crusades to expell the Muslims and to try to recover what they call "Holy land". Nowadays, Crusades as form of violence don't exist.

To finish, I want to organise a class debate in Spanish all together. I'll bring the questions next day.

Bye class!