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...