Differences in understanding of personal status and racial concepts between the city-state era and the imperial era

Racial discrimination refers to a person's attitude of contempt, disgust and exclusion towards a race or nation other than himself, which is manifested in his words and actions. Next, I will tell three stories about racial discrimination.

The transformation of the first black diver

Carl Kadable is a black American. 16 years old, became a naval soldier. His dream is to become a diver and get the medal of "First Class Master Sergeant". However, what is waiting for Carl is contempt and rejection.

Here, the black navy has only three ways to go: to be a cook and an orderly, or to pack up and go home. Carl became a cook. For one week, except Friday, he could go swimming in the sea, and the rest of the time, he could only work in the kitchen. White soldiers practice swimming in the sea like happy whales. Carl can only "appreciate" through the kitchen window, sweating profusely.

Once, Carl finally couldn't bear it, dropped his shovel and spoon, ran to the deck and jumped into the sea. He swims more than two minutes faster than the best white soldier. However, Carl not only failed to win applause and praise, but was also sentenced to three days in solitary confinement. When the instructor asked him to review, Carl said firmly, "No! I want to be a real diver! " The instructor shrugged and said, "Cook, stop dreaming! American divers, so far, no one is black! "

Carl wrote thousands of applications to go to the Diver School in New Jersey, and his persistence finally touched the kind instructors. He wrote a letter in his own name, pleading with the headmaster to accept this excellent black soldier. However, the principal with serious racial discrimination accepted Carl on the surface, but privately made up his mind that Jeancard would never become a diver.

In the first theoretical exam, Carl, who was only in the seventh grade, got 37 points. The headmaster warned him that he would fail next time and be expelled. On weekends, the soldiers drove to the town for a drinking party. Carl asked the librarian to allow him to stay here for 48 hours in exchange for cleaning. In this way, Carl got 94 points in the second exam.

In the diving class, the time for white soldiers to dive was 3 minutes, but the headmaster deliberately extended Carl's time and joked that if the black boy could come up alive, my hair would turn white. As a result, Carl dived in the sea for five minutes, safe and sound.

Finally, the graduation exam came. In the winter morning, the sea is bitterly cold. The headmaster said: after you dive to the bottom of the sea below 300 meters, we will sink a tool kit for you. You must assemble the parts in your bag and send them to the deck before you can get your diploma.

Other soldiers successfully completed the task in 3 minutes and were pulled onto the deck. However, Carl's toolbox was deliberately cut with a sharp knife. When it was thrown into the sea, small valves, small parts and small screws were scattered on the dark and deep seabed. Carl must find them one by one from the sand and mud before installing them.

It's getting dark, and Carl is still at the cold bottom of the sea. But nine and a half hours later, Carl sent a signal to send the assembled valve to the headmaster.

Carl, who was pulled onto the deck, was weak and shivering, but he stubbornly completed the task. The headmaster had to give him a diploma as a diver. Carl became the first black diver in America. He was very good, very good. Soon, he was awarded the rank of second-class master sergeant. Nine years later, he became the only black master sergeant in American history.

The black man in the elevator

This is an ordinary day in my ordinary life, but getting on the elevator makes it special.

It was only nine o'clock when I went to work that day, and the square was already crowded with people. I went through the small door next to the square to take the elevator and found four men standing at the elevator entrance. They are more than one meter tall and thin, with short hair or no hair, and their skin is more like sesame paste than sesame paste. I stood beside them like a white dwarf.

So you can imagine my embarrassment in the elevator. Surrounded by four tall black people, my height is probably up to their armpits, but I don't know if it is lucky or unlucky. What I smell is not body odor, but a strong breath, a unique fragrance, which I have never smelled before. Frankly speaking, I have a little urge to sneeze.

And those four black people didn't ignore me. During the thirty seconds when the elevator climbed up, they kept staring at me coldly and mercilessly, without relaxing for more than half a second. They also exchanged a few lines that I didn't understand at all, which made me feel the mystery of the accident in an instant, as if I had arrived at a distant planet by a time machine and was taken to an unknown distance by several aliens.

The last is thirty seconds, say three minutes. It's not good to be surrounded by strangers as hostages. When the elevator door opened, I saw two campus guards face to face. Their faces were different. Obviously, I never thought I was in the elevator. Then I suddenly realized that these four black people must be the bodyguards of the Zimbabwean president or something. The elevator was temporarily requisitioned as the "presidential elevator", but I rushed in rashly and spent an inexplicable short time with a group of strangers in a closed space.

After stepping out of the elevator, four boys in black hurried to the VIP room. One of them looked back at me as he walked, with a strange smile on his mouth. Perhaps he also wondered how a middle-aged China person like me could appear in the "presidential ladder".

When I got back to the office, my colleagues teased me and said that I must be black, otherwise I couldn't get into the elevator. And my answer is that I must look like the president, and no one has the courage to stop me. I am optimistic, so I am happy.

truth

Missionaries went deep into the wilderness of Africa and preached the behavior of Jesus giving his life to save people. Hearing this, the local people were very moved. They asked questions around the missionaries, hoping to learn more about Jesus. So the missionary took out the portrait of Jesus and hung it on the wall for them to see.

Black people in Africa have always hated whites. When they saw the portrait of Jesus, they became agitated. How can he be white? How can such a nice person be white? Everyone dispersed in a hubbub. Until now, some tribes in Africa have to paint Jesus as black, and everyone will accept it.

This story is enough to illustrate what prejudice is. Prejudice is not unique to blacks. Einstein, a great scientist, was a Jew, grew up in Germany and later settled in the United States. He once said humorously and bitterly, "Whether relativity is a scientific truth can only be proved after me. If I'm right, the Germans will say I'm German and the French will say I'm Jewish. If I am wrong, the Germans will say that I am a Jew and the French will say that I am a German. " At that time, Germany and France had historical grievances. Most French people hate Germans, while Nazi Germany tries its best to exclude Jews. Everyone is willing to put failure on the object he doesn't like, knowing that it may not be true, but he can't control it.

Racial discrimination refers to the act of dividing people into different social classes and treating them differently according to race, that is, racial discrimination. The ruling class divides people's social status and legal status according to the characteristics of race and nation, and treats other races with hostility, persecution and inequality. The product of class exploitation system. Racial discrimination began in the Roman Empire. Its modern form began in the primitive accumulation period of capitalism, mainly including deprivation of voting rights, education rights and other rights, suppression of wages, arbitrary arrest, torture and even killing, and forced restrictions on living in "reserved areas". So far, racial discrimination is widespread in many capitalist countries.

The manifestations of racial discrimination are openness, legality, concealment and practicality. In South Africa, racial discrimination is manifested in apartheid, which is the basic national policy of white racists and has a history of more than 300 years. Since the mid-20th century, white racist authorities have promulgated more than 65,438+000 racial discrimination decrees. Blacks and Indians in the United States, indigenous people in Oceania, former colonial immigrants, ethnic minorities and foreign workers in Europe, and "tribesmen" and caste groups in Asia are all victims of today's racial discrimination.