What I read
According to "Bungaree: Indigenous man who helped Flinders explore Australia" (2019). Bungaree was born in Broken Bay in 1775. He helped Captain Matthew Flinders to circumnavigate Australia in June 1803. He played a vital diplomatic role, and had been noted for his kindness of heart, gentleness and other excellent qualities and has been of great service to the colony. In 1815, he became known as King Bungaree, but people forgot him because of the racist undertones.
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My response
After I read this news, I think that people forgot Bungaree because the racist undertones.The problem of racism is a problem that has arisen everwhere in the world for a long time. And difficult to fix, even though this problem will reduce the severity from the past, but racism still exists in society all over the world. Observed from there are statues to Captain Flinder, but as yet, there are no statue to Bungaree recognising his role in the exploration of Australia. I think racism is a human being created to define superiority or inferiority based on the skin color and the different cultures of humans. In addition, each country always adheres to the history of teaching in order to create righteousness to support their past behavior. Every human being has human dignity and therefore should be respected and treared equally. Especially, racial discrimination is therefore a violation of human right that everyone should have.
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My question
Is the problem of racism will eventually disappear from this world in the end?
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Reference
- Bungaree: Indigenous man who helped Flinders explore Australia. (2019, January 25). Retrieved from https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-47000518
When you write that racism "has arisen everwhere in the world for a long time,"I was wondering whether an example or two, perhaps from the culture you know best, might be useful here. And perhaps one or two others.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, I think that racism, like other prejudices and many other types of corrupt morals is also natural to our human species. For example, it seems that murder, rape and stealing are all behaviours that humans engage in naturally, which suggests that being natural might be a bad thing rather than a good thing. And in nature, many things are also pretty awful, from earthquakes that kill thousands and meteors that destroy entire species, such as the dinosaurs, to deadly poisons that some living things create to protect themselves. I see this in some of my nearest relatives, who think that Australia should not welcome new immigrants, rudely ignoring the fact that our own family has not been there for many generations, although we did not set about killing off the native people the way the brutal English settlers did when they arrived from 1788 on.
DeleteIt seems to me that something similar is going on when the arrogant middle-classes of Bangkok say that the people of Isaan should not have an equal voice in deciding the form of Thailand's society and its government. Such ugly attitudes show the moral corruption of people who oppose the good morals of democracy, however natural corrupt morals might be.