Monday, September 22, 2014

Structural Violence

          Elitism, form by the understanding of realism, a theory to understand the government and society structure. The idea is to have groups or one strong countries to rule the poor ones. A strong country assumes special privileges and responsibilities to benefit the poor countries.
          Ageism, a discrimination towards old people, basically to disdain them because of their weakness on society and old people are the target. It's almost the same as sexism and racism. 
          Heterosexism, discrimination among people who are gay, or lesbian (LGBT). Part of the reason because gay sexual activities brings diseases. "Special" names were made to describe these people. 
          Nationalism, a belief involves national identity, within one country, many groups are form to benefit the country which all groups has the right to benefit the country does not involve discrimination among race.
         Adultism, the power adults have over children, a discrimination among young people, children follows and bias towards adults and ideas, activities and attitudes
         Racism, a belief that human has differences among human, race. Different kind of people were group by race, and some race believe that they are the higher than the other. 
          In my opinion, I think that Racism is the worst and the most harmful in the history, the worse is Elitism and the bad one is Heterosexism. Racist believe that each race has ability and superior ability among others. It is the worst and the most harmful one because in history, many have died because of racism and many have died just trying to solve the problem. After Germany lost World War I, the Jewish were consider a cause of the losing war and Nazi were putting Jewish in camps and kill them in groups later on. During WWII, USA put American Japanese and immigrant that were one of the Axis group in camps because they believe that they are spy and will send information to their original countries. The civil war was fought because the South and the North has different view on Blacks. Two argument collide and the Civil War started. Elitism are worse because in the past the higher social class groups were abusing their powers over the poor ones. Making the poor people even harder to live. It is kind of like why Marxism form, people fought back and most of time, the revolution overthrown the great powers successfully, although lots of lives taken from it. Heterosexism is the bad one, people have make hate speech, law, death threats to discriminate against gay men, lesbians, bisexuals. The education taught children the heterosexism idea and causing suicide committed.
          I think that to remove these three structural violence can be a hard task, because when you kill one, the new one forms. Although a great deal amount of changes have change these three from extreme negative into slightly negative. Racist action and threat has becoming less but that does not mean people still likes them. There are still people who think their race is higher but laws were made so that people can not publicly harm someone by race no matter with language or action. My guess is that Interstate will make treaties according to this situation at hand. Individual might base on the citizens' opinion, domestic is likely to do public opinion. For Elitism, interstate level will make sure a person does not abuse power, making more alliance.  

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