of a little finger
it's a complicated world we're living in. so we make our lives easier by giving generalizations on other people. is that fair?
just finished watching a cd borrowed from 'wonder man'. he gave a very strong warning about borrowing it. "if you scratch it, i will cut off your little finger."* haha. though it might have scared me, i still managed to watch it. ;p
Alhamdulillah, it was truly an eye opener. a compilation of short documentaries on Gaza - not forgotten, Imperial Geography, Promised Land, and Reel Bad Arabs.
anyway, i was really inspired by the Reel Bad Arabs. how without even realizing it, we are giving generalizations towards a certain ethnicity, group and in this case it was towards the Arabs. how the US political state is currently influencing the mainstream media in hopes of seeping into the minds of its society. how Hollywood reflects Arabs, Palestinians as violent, shallow and incompetent villains when in reality they are vulnerable civilians who are being crushed by heavy tanks and fighting over the rights to their lands with only their bare hands. how we are becoming insensitive towards the fate of others and dehumanizing other people. isn't our lives worth the same as theirs?
isn't it time that we move past this judgmental paradigm and try looking at different perspectives before coming up with conclusions? are the actions of a few people enough to justify the actions of the whole population? the same goes with terrorists. let's give an example, if there were 3 nerds in a class, does that make the whole class nerds? (huhuh. how ironic is this example? sorry!)
and there's this other aspect of seeing things in different aspects. just like the famous saying goes, "one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter" funny? but true.
and which reminds me that there's a lot more issues going on in this world that i'm still oblivious of. gotta start reading more materials laaaa....(besides the mountains of medical books that i so haven't touched yet) ok? huhuh.
"oh Allah please protect us from passing judgement on others. insyaAllah. Amin."
*that was meant to be a joke.
it's a complicated world we're living in. so we make our lives easier by giving generalizations on other people. is that fair?
just finished watching a cd borrowed from 'wonder man'. he gave a very strong warning about borrowing it. "if you scratch it, i will cut off your little finger."* haha. though it might have scared me, i still managed to watch it. ;p
Alhamdulillah, it was truly an eye opener. a compilation of short documentaries on Gaza - not forgotten, Imperial Geography, Promised Land, and Reel Bad Arabs.
anyway, i was really inspired by the Reel Bad Arabs. how without even realizing it, we are giving generalizations towards a certain ethnicity, group and in this case it was towards the Arabs. how the US political state is currently influencing the mainstream media in hopes of seeping into the minds of its society. how Hollywood reflects Arabs, Palestinians as violent, shallow and incompetent villains when in reality they are vulnerable civilians who are being crushed by heavy tanks and fighting over the rights to their lands with only their bare hands. how we are becoming insensitive towards the fate of others and dehumanizing other people. isn't our lives worth the same as theirs?
isn't it time that we move past this judgmental paradigm and try looking at different perspectives before coming up with conclusions? are the actions of a few people enough to justify the actions of the whole population? the same goes with terrorists. let's give an example, if there were 3 nerds in a class, does that make the whole class nerds? (huhuh. how ironic is this example? sorry!)
and there's this other aspect of seeing things in different aspects. just like the famous saying goes, "one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter" funny? but true.
and which reminds me that there's a lot more issues going on in this world that i'm still oblivious of. gotta start reading more materials laaaa....(besides the mountains of medical books that i so haven't touched yet) ok? huhuh.
"oh Allah please protect us from passing judgement on others. insyaAllah. Amin."
*that was meant to be a joke.
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