Bullying is a english term used to describe acts of physical violence or psychological, intentional and repeated, performed by an individual or a group of individuals with the purpose to intimidate or harm another individual (or group of individuals) unable (s) to defend . There are also the victims / aggressors, or author / targets, which commit attacks at certain times, but are also victims of bullying by class.

Places of bullying:

- Schools

- Workplace

- Neighbors

- Politics

- Military

Types of bullying:

- Repeated physical attacks against a person;

- Spread negative rumors about the victim;

- Make the victim do what she does not want to threatening the victim to follow the orders;

- Making derogatory comments about the family of a person on the place where he lives, personal appearance, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, income level, nationality or any inferiority;

- And many more forms to intimidate a person who is victim of bullying...

Refugees

According to the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, a refugee is a person who flees to a foreign country or power to escape danger or persecution.

Homosexuality

Homosexuality is the attribute, the character or quality of a being human or not that is homosexual (gay = Greek + Latin sexus equal = sex), and broad sense, is defined by physical attraction, emotional and aesthetic beings between the same sex.

In my opinion, a homosexual man is equal to any other person who is heterosexual, only by saying that does not like a person of the opposite sex. In this case, also applies to racism, not racism by ethnic group, or by color of skin but by the choices that people have sex. We have to judge the people for their sexual choices but by what they are with us.

In other times there was this freedom that today, but now there are many people to admit they are homosexuals. Maybe you did earlier by bad reaction of society?

Feminism....

Feminism is the belief that women should have equal political, social, sexual, intellectual and economic rights to men. It involves various movements, theories, and philosophies, all concerned with issues of gender difference, that advocate equality for women and that campaign for women's rights and interests. According to some, the history of feminism can be divided into three waves. The first wave was in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the second was in the 1960s and 1970s, and the third extends from the 1990s to the present. Feminist theory emerged from these feminist movements. It is manifest in a variety of disciplines such as feminist geography, feminist history and feminist literary criticism.

Feminism has altered predominant perspectives in a wide range of areas within Western society, ranging from culture to law. Feminist activists have campaigned for women's legal rights (rights of contract, property rights, voting rights); for women's right to bodily integrity and autonomy, for abortion rights, and for reproductive rights (including access to contraception and quality prenatal care); for protection from domestic violence, sexual harassment and rape; for workplace rights, including maternity leave and equal pay; and against other forms of discrimination.

Advantages of Diversity

"Diversity seems to create so many heated discussions. This is truly astonishing, especially in the United States of America. People seem to forget that a ripe mixture of cultures, religions, and social status founded the United States." Some people create some discussions but they forgot that diversity is positive.

Why? I think that the diversity is trully important because we learn new things with other people from other cultures.



STOP this "DIVERSITY DISCRIMINATION" ... "Be Happy"

How to help people with negative feelings?

There are many people who suffers from negative feelings.
These people aren't doomed! They can be helped!

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The first step that people with this problem need to do is:

- Ask their parents for help;
- Ask their friends for help;
- Search for help on their own.

It depends of what and with the problem is.

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The second step is:

- Search for a specialist, like:
- Psychiatrists;
- Psychologists.

If you can't have none of them, a good friend is not bad either!

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The third and last step:

- Heal yourself;
- Enjoy your life as best as you can;
- Be happy, you deserve it!

Religion types

Religion types :

There are four universal religions, which are:

- Buddhism;
- Hinduism;
- Islam;
- Christianity.



So, I'm going talk about de Christianity because it's my religion...

Christianity is the religion more widespread, extending to all continents. The Christian faith, which originated in Palestine 2000 years ago, recognizes only one God. Considers its founder, Jesus Christ as the incarnation of God. Christianity claims to Trinitarian doctrine, ie the doctrine of the Trinity: Father, Son and Holy Spirit, which are three persons in one nature. The sacred book of Christians is the Bible. Christianity is divided into three major faiths: the Roman Catholic, the Eastern Orthodox and Protestant.

There is evidence that 2100 million people are Christian, that is, Christianity is the religion that contains most of the people following Islam.

Religious intolerance

What's Religious intolerance?

Religious intolerance is a term that describes the mental attitude characterized by lack of ability or willingness to recognize and respect differences and religious beliefs of others. May have originated in their own religious beliefs of someone or be motivated by intolerance against religious beliefs and practices of others. Religious intolerance may result in religious persecution and both have been common throughout history.

Examples of religious intolerance: In ancient times, Christians have persecuted Jews and pagans.

Integration

As I said on my post of the language problems it's difficult to somebody integrate themselves in another country/culture/society. The language is a difficulty of the integration but there is another ones.

There is difficulties as the diference of our costums and sometimes time diference because of the fuse horary.

The integration is always hard, I have some experiences because I've moved myself sometimes and I know that is complicated because we don't have any friends and we have to start a "new" life.

Negative feelings

Negative feelings may be caused by many reasons:

- Victims of bullying;

- All kinds of discrimination;

- Slavery;

- All kinds of phobias;

- All kind of abuse...

These reasons may lead to negative feelings and then to negative reactions:

- Suicide;

- Murders;

- Be in shock or sick;

- Anti-sociality;

- Be afraid of a great variety of things...

Films...

* Amistad, film about slavery

Amistad is a 1997 Steven Spielberg film based on the true story of a slave mutiny that took place aboard a ship of the same name in 1839, and the legal battle that followed. It shows how, even though the case was won at the federal district court level, it was appealed by President Martin Van Buren to the Supreme Court, and how former President John Quincy Adams took part in the proceedings.

The Amistad trailler:

* Monster's Ball

Hank Grotowski (Billy Bob Thornton) and his son Sonny (Heath Ledger) work together in a prison located in the southern United States. Hank is extremely racist and needs to deal with this feeling every day, due to the presence of blacks in prison. One of them, Lawrence Musgrove (Sean Combs), periodically receives a visit from his wife Leticia (Halle Berry). After Lawrence run, Leticia follows his life with his obese son Tyrell. However, just two tragedies by making the lives of Hank and Leticia are crossing.

The Monster's Ball trailler:

* Miracle at St. Anna

Miracle at St. Anna follows four black soldiers of the all-black 92nd Infantry Division who get trapped near a small Tuscan village on the Gothic Line during the Italian Campaign of World War II after one of them risks his life to save an Italian boy.

The group is made up of:

The idealistic Staff Sergeant Stamps, who believes fighting in World War II will help American Negroes to win the same rights as whites; the world-wise Sergeant Bishop, whose ambitions are much more prosaic and personal: survival, economic gain, female company, etc.; Corporal Negron, a Puerto Rican, whose perception of the racial issue is somewhat different due to his Hispanic upbringing; and the hulking, but naive, Private First Class Train, whose childlike attitude bridges the gap with the rescued Italian child, himself suffering from the after effects of a terrible trauma.[2]
The story is inspired by the August 1944 Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacre perpetrated by the Waffen-SS. There is also a reference to a sculpted head from Ponte Santa Trinita in Florence that acts as a Macguffin.

* The Miracle at St. Anna trailler:

Stereotypes...

- A stereotype is a preconceived idea that attributes certain characteristics (in general) to all the members of class or set. The term is often used with a negative connotation when referring to an oversimplified, exaggerated, or demeaning assumption that a particular individual possesses the characteristics associated with the class due to his or her membership in it. Stereotypes can be used to deny individuals respect or legitimacy based on their membership in that group.

- Stereotypes often form the basis of prejudice and are usually employed to explain real or imaginary differences due to race, gender, religion, ethnicity, socio-economic class, disability, occupation, etc. A stereotype can be a conventional and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image based on the belief that there are attitudes, appearances, or behaviors shared by all members of a group. Stereotypes are forms of social consensus rather than individual judgments. Stereotypes are sometimes formed by a previous illusory correlation, a false association between two variables that are loosely correlated if correlated at all. Stereotypes may be occasionally positive.

Language Problems

I think that the language is the biggest problem to the immigrants, specially if they go to countries that the language is totally diferent from their origin country.

It would be much better if the languages were all the same. The kids have much more facility to learn faster the another languages but adults can't because they are accustomed to their language.

Some years ago a project were in devolopment to "build" a international language but it failed.

Child Slavery

Child slavery consists in the selling of children (to work or to go to war) by their parents, just to achieve money. UNICEF, considers all forms of child labor working under 12 years of age, in any economic activities, all work between 12 and 14 years than light work and all work below the age of 18 supported by the ILO in the worst forms of child labor.

Portugal was a country that has contributed for the end of this crime. It launched a children's book and a CD called "Infância Roubada" where actors and journalists sang the hymn "Filhos do Coração". The purchase of the cd gave half of its value to help to save children from child slavery and most of the people in Portugal was sensitized and bought it.

This is the proof that even a small country can make a big difference!

This video gives us an idea of how serious child slavery is...

Multiculturalism

The term multiculturalism generally refer to an applied ideology of racial, cultural and ethnic diversity within the demographics of a specified place, usually at the scale of an organization such as a school, business, neighborhood, city or nation.

The biggest fun in our lives is that everyone is diferent and we MUST respect everyone even if they are from other countries ou cultures.

Types of discrimination...

Racial discrimination...

Racial discrimination is any distinction, restriction or preference on the basis of race, national or ethnic origin, that aims to the restriction or cancellation of recognition under conditions of equality, rights, freedoms and guarantees of rights or economic, social and cultural.

Sexual discrimination...

The sexual discrimination is a broad concept aimed at gay and lesbian people, heterosexual and bisexual.
It is addressed to the distinction of roles that men and women to exercise.

Religion discrimination...

The religious discrimination is a conflict between religions of different cultures, traditions and languages.
These differences may cause some fights or even wars.

STOP DISCRIMINATION!!!

Please stop this... We are all equal...

Xenophobia

Xenophobia is an intense dislike and/or fear of people from other countries. It comes from the Greek and it's typically used to describe a fear or dislike of foreigners or of people significantly different from oneself.As with all phobias, a xenophobic person is aware of the fear, and therefore has to genuinely think or believe at some level that the target is in fact a foreigner. This arguably separates xenophobia from racism and ordinary prejudice in that someone of a different race does not necessarily have to be of a different nationality.

People don't need to be afraid...

Xenophobia main problems

For xenophobia there are two main problems:

- The first is a population group present within a society that is not considered part of that society. Often they are recent immigrants, but xenophobia may be directed against a group which has been present for centuries. This form of xenophobia can elicit or facilitate hostile and violent reactions.

- The second form of xenophobia is primarily cultural, and the objects of the phobia are cultural elements which are considered alien. All cultures are subject to external influences, but cultural xenophobia is often narrowly directed, for instance at foreign loan words in a national language. It rarely leads to aggression against individual persons, but can result in political campaigns for cultural or linguistic purification.