What Of This Goldfish Would You Wish By Etgar Keret
A Negative Society Take a look around, are you comfortable with the people who you are associated with? How many people of your same race are there with you? Many people do not feel comfortable with being around people who do not look the same or have the same beliefs, religion, or gender as them. People like to surround themselves with people they feel they can socialize with more. Although others do not like to surround themselves with different people because they have xenophobia, which means they have a fear of being around people of a different race, which illustrates the type of society we live in. Humans say they want to have peace and want everyone to care and get along with each other, but how can this happen if we have people who
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Segregation is the separation of different racial groups in a country, community, or establishment. It might not be as terrible as it used to be in The Civil Rights Act back in 1964 but it is still here. In the article “What of This Goldfish Would You Wish” by Etgar Keret, the author implies people think segregation is tolerable. Keret states “By himself. In silence. The way it should be. The way it was”(line 67). This suggest that the character that Etgar uses in the short story likes to distance himself from people. No matter who they are, he does not like being around them. We see people in our society that do not like to associate with anyone. Humans not only segregate themselves alone, but they do it in groups. For instance, at school you see all these different cliques that only socialize within each other. You see this type of segregation not only with race but with gender and social class. As little kids people might have been taught that the boys only play with boys and girls only play with girls. As people get older such as Sergi who is a character in the short story, they begin to put this into practice even more and they see that it should not only be with gender but with …show more content…
You see it with gender, religion, and age but you mostly see it with race. In the article “ For dark-skinned Mexicans, taint of discrimination lingers” by Tim Johnson demonstrates how discrimination is not always with different races but with its own race. Tim states “Mexico’s largest airline stated flatly that it wanted no one dark.”(line 8) This implies that just by looking a certain way you are unappealing. No one will want you for being you because people believe you have to look a certain way to fit in with the group. What is more shocking is that people who are of the same ethnicity but are slightly different are not accepted. In the short story ¨The Stolen Party” by Liliana Heker states ¨you with the Spanish eyes¨ (page 4). This implies that they refer to Rosaura as ¨Spanish eyes¨ because of the way she looked. Rosaura must have stood out and that was why she was referred as that. If you go to a neighborhood where everyone looks the same and you are the only one who looks different, you are going to be known as the person who is different from the
Segregation is the separation of different racial groups in a country, community, or establishment. It might not be as terrible as it used to be in The Civil Rights Act back in 1964 but it is still here. In the article “What of This Goldfish Would You Wish” by Etgar Keret, the author implies people think segregation is tolerable. Keret states “By himself. In silence. The way it should be. The way it was”(line 67). This suggest that the character that Etgar uses in the short story likes to distance himself from people. No matter who they are, he does not like being around them. We see people in our society that do not like to associate with anyone. Humans not only segregate themselves alone, but they do it in groups. For instance, at school you see all these different cliques that only socialize within each other. You see this type of segregation not only with race but with gender and social class. As little kids people might have been taught that the boys only play with boys and girls only play with girls. As people get older such as Sergi who is a character in the short story, they begin to put this into practice even more and they see that it should not only be with gender but with …show more content…
You see it with gender, religion, and age but you mostly see it with race. In the article “ For dark-skinned Mexicans, taint of discrimination lingers” by Tim Johnson demonstrates how discrimination is not always with different races but with its own race. Tim states “Mexico’s largest airline stated flatly that it wanted no one dark.”(line 8) This implies that just by looking a certain way you are unappealing. No one will want you for being you because people believe you have to look a certain way to fit in with the group. What is more shocking is that people who are of the same ethnicity but are slightly different are not accepted. In the short story ¨The Stolen Party” by Liliana Heker states ¨you with the Spanish eyes¨ (page 4). This implies that they refer to Rosaura as ¨Spanish eyes¨ because of the way she looked. Rosaura must have stood out and that was why she was referred as that. If you go to a neighborhood where everyone looks the same and you are the only one who looks different, you are going to be known as the person who is different from the