Having different beliefs and cultures has always been around and has always been problematic, two perfect examples being the Greensborough 4 documentary and the Boy in the Striped Pajamas movie. The Greensborough 4 documentary dealt with African American segregation and they boy in the striped pajama dealt concentration camps and the killing of jews. Culture and beliefs change within time periods, where you are, and what you believe in. Individuals in their society are affected by beliefs and culture, you can see this in the boy in the striped pajamas because Bruno thought that jews were bad because that is what everyone around him believed and his culture hated jews. This also goes with The Greensborough 4 documentary. People did not like African Americans …show more content…
This boy was sheltered from the concentration camps and the bad things the soldiers were doing to Jews because of his innocence. Being an eight year old boy he played with friends and did what eight year old boys do, he thought nothing of what was happening. Then after he moved away and slowly his innocence faded and he began to see what was really happening. The culture where he lived had changed a lot and you could tell that it was changing the way he thought. His teacher was heavily teaching both Bruno and his sister about what was going on and that the Jews are bad people. His sister, being older had taken an interest to it more and started to change based on how much she was learning. She had changed her room from dolls and happy posters to posters of Hitler. That was a big indicator of how culture and beliefs can affect an individual. Another example is after Bruno met Shmuel and he slowly started to realize but not fully realize that where Shmuel is isn’t a good place, but then after seeing the video of how nice the camp was Bruno automatically went back to believing what the culture and beliefs around him told him to