Essay On Xenophobia
Xenophobia
Xenophobia is an intense or irrational dislike or fear of people from other countries. Xenophobia can also be described as a cruel and unfair treatment of a person or group because of their religious or political beliefs or their race. The difference between xenophobia and racism is simple. Xenophobia is the threat to one’s national Identity and racism is an overall hatred of a group for cultural or other reasons. Discussing Xenophobia, I will focus on the relationship between the Dominican Republic and Haiti, since it is now becoming a global and human rights issue as well as in South Africa.
Haiti and Dominican Republic are close, but only geographically seeing that they are physically close. One of the reasons why Xenophobia …show more content…
Trujillo was a dictator tat was obsessed with fare skin and even went the extreme of treating the Haitians extremely poor. He even went as far as orchestrating a massacre of over 20,000 Haitians by the Dominican soldiers. This act was known as the Parsley massacre, because in order to identify who was Haitian or Dominican, the Dominican border guards would ask people to pronounce Parsley, because Haitians had difficulty saying the word. The massacre included women, children, and Dominicans who tried to help the …show more content…
In Johannesburg, South Africa “Thousands were displaced from their homes and up to five people were reported to have been killed when violence spread through the province.” (Aljazeera 2015). It is sad to know that after Africa’s incident with apartheid, that many migrants from all over was trying to escape poverty and political oppression and was still in a horrible situation. They are in a situation with very high unemployment rate and residential tension because of it. For migrants the situation is extremely terrifying because the national government supports the negative ideology of the native South
Xenophobia is an intense or irrational dislike or fear of people from other countries. Xenophobia can also be described as a cruel and unfair treatment of a person or group because of their religious or political beliefs or their race. The difference between xenophobia and racism is simple. Xenophobia is the threat to one’s national Identity and racism is an overall hatred of a group for cultural or other reasons. Discussing Xenophobia, I will focus on the relationship between the Dominican Republic and Haiti, since it is now becoming a global and human rights issue as well as in South Africa.
Haiti and Dominican Republic are close, but only geographically seeing that they are physically close. One of the reasons why Xenophobia …show more content…
Trujillo was a dictator tat was obsessed with fare skin and even went the extreme of treating the Haitians extremely poor. He even went as far as orchestrating a massacre of over 20,000 Haitians by the Dominican soldiers. This act was known as the Parsley massacre, because in order to identify who was Haitian or Dominican, the Dominican border guards would ask people to pronounce Parsley, because Haitians had difficulty saying the word. The massacre included women, children, and Dominicans who tried to help the …show more content…
In Johannesburg, South Africa “Thousands were displaced from their homes and up to five people were reported to have been killed when violence spread through the province.” (Aljazeera 2015). It is sad to know that after Africa’s incident with apartheid, that many migrants from all over was trying to escape poverty and political oppression and was still in a horrible situation. They are in a situation with very high unemployment rate and residential tension because of it. For migrants the situation is extremely terrifying because the national government supports the negative ideology of the native South