Kiyo Sato-Viacrucis Sayema HameedI found these two stories very interesting. Kiyo just wanted her diary back, the soldiers took her diary and read it. In most of the stories I listened to, they were all amazed by how much the FBI knew. It concerns me slightly that the FBI was reading little girls' diaries, in innocent homes. I should think America should be worried that when something bad happens in America, officials go to the families of the accused terrorists. They don't stop to think that, maybe, the family had no idea what was going on. It bugs me that people, even today, are hunted like wild animals based off their looks and accents. People come to America to be free, not caged in fear. We, as the people of the U.S., panic if a certain group of people attack us, then we automatically assume that everyone who is of that racial background is out to "get us". Below I've included a link to the site I found this at. If you click "begin", then let it play, it'll take you to stories, I found these two, but it looks like it changes each time.
http://www.itvs.org/facetoface/flash.html
Let me know if you find any other stories that meant something to you, or you found interesting.
3 comments:
I got to look at that website a few days ago and I was really suprised by some of the stories. There's one on there about a man that worked in a store that was Pakistani and they joked around that they needed to search him for bombs. First, I didn't see how that was funny and secondly I couldn't believe that people would say something that rude. It was really interesting to listen to.
To embarrass them by doing the other things they did to them, without jeering at them.
I also found the website very shocking! I couldn't believe that people could stereotype an entire group of people for one persons wrong actions. I love "cavalierschick" example! After I read her post I went back to the website and looked at that story. As I listened I wondered what would drive a person to acting this way! Surely, Americans are better educated than to make cruel stereotypes. Wouldn't you think so?
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