Week 6
ASA 002
Things happen. After horrible things like 9/11 or Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor happen, people have hard time getting over (mostly because they do not want the same disaster to happen again). For example, after the World Trade Center was attacked on September 11th, the USA PATRIOT Act was passed. This Act gave officials the power to intercept mails, search homes, and enforce "random searches" in airports. Well, many Americans started viewing people with turbans as "terrorists" regardless of their religions. My Sikh friend once complained to me that his religion has nothing to do with 9/11 but people still overgeneralize things. Same thing happened to the Japanese Americans during the WW2. It's ridiculous how some people can be stupid enough not to know that Korea is divided into North and South, and that not all Koreans worship Kim Jong Un (yes, some people have confronted me about this before). However, I also understand the American point of view. Americans are afraid of getting attacked by the terrorists at any time. In their (or our) point of view, it is worth being a little racist/ ignorant/ stereotypical to avoid any possible calamities. "Yes, we might hurt his feelings by selecting him for the random searches. Yes, he has a turban on, but he is most likely not to be a terrorist. But what if he is? Why risk?"
Question: How do we develop the way to prevent terrorism without offending the people too much?
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