Acceptance
“Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who seal their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit” (Alveda King). Discrimination has been an important and perpetual topic of discussion due to its effects. People are often discriminated because of their color, culture, or appearance. There are no positive effects from spreading discrimination. We can achieve equality much faster if we learn to accept others instead of being intolerant. The possibility of racism, limiting cultures, and influencing future generations are reasons why people should accept others.
Racism is something that causes disunity and can also lower someone’s self esteem by making them feel like an outcast. In the short story “The Stolen Party” Liliana Hecker demonstrates racism and …show more content…
That also means lowering people’s tolerance because they become accustomed to only being around a certain culture and they do not get to experience differences. In the poem ”Without Title” Diane Glancy shows how a Native American family’s culture has been limited. The family is forced to migrate into the city and leave behind something important, their culture. For instance the text says “It’s hard you know without the buffalo, the shaman, the arrow, but my father went out each day to hunt as though he had them” (stanza 1). Buffalos, Shamans, and arrows are all symbols that represent Native American culture. The father is continuously searching for something that was taken away from him, his culture was limited. The father even says “its hard”, its hard to live in a society where his culture is unwanted. Due to the relocation act his family is forced to adapt to a different lifestyle where American culture is superior and Native American culture is of little