Section A01
Week 5
The article “Empire of Death and The Plague of Civil Violence by Darrell Y. Hamamoto talks about how brutal murders and the rise in civil violence is becoming more and more frequent, and therefore not surprising anymore. Due to the frequency, people now think of it as something common and mundane. Darrell Hamamoto also describes and explains a variety of violent acts and murder types, and giving situational events like wars. All the examples given are historical facts that have had an impact on different racial groups. After reading this article, I realized that a person’s race really does have an impact on the violent acts that occur. The reason of many of these violent acts have roots in a person’s race, meaning that if they did not look a specific way, the crime might not have occurred. When I read about the story of serial killer Ramirez in the “Highway to Hell” section, I realized that because the killer was targeting Asians, the people of other races who lived in the same neighborhood as Asians would be “safe”. I find it very sad and unfair that the safety of the same neighborhood changes depending on the resident’s race. Most people’s views towards a specific ethnicity is due to their own experience with them, but the bad actions of one or two or even twenty people of the same ethnicity does not represent the whole country. This is why not having stereotypes and generalizing communities is so important. It affects their well-being.
What is a good way of trying to minimize
stereotyping to help other people’s well-being?
References
Hamamoto, D. Y. (2003). Empire of Death and the
Plague of Civic Violence. In Masters of War: Militarism and Blowback in the Era
of American Empire (1st ed., pp. 276-292). New York, New York: Routledge.
Contemporary Police Brutality and Misconduct: A
Continuation of the Legacy of Racial Violence. (2001, March 21). Retrieved
April 30, 2017, from http://civilrightsteaching.org/resource/contemporary-police-brutality/
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