Reflection question #2

1. Poverty: The concept of poverty varies, generally speaking, the basic desire is not met. It’s similar to “poor”, which means that you do not have enough. Before Social class I wasn’t interested in ‘Poverty’ Even I didn’t think about that. And When I met the homeless I always afraid, so I tried to avoid them. I think the homeless was not a good image. But the video that we saw in the social class changed my mind. In that Video, there was a story about the homeless. And the Video was telling to us that people in poverty they are not lazy and they are trying to find the work but they are still in poverty. After seeing the video, the width of my thinking has changed. I could feel it. I went to the downtown after I saw that video. And I saw a lot of homeless. Actually I still afraid of homeless but this time it was little different. It was homeless people who were always scary, dark and disinclined. But I can see they are trying hard. I was able to see many musicians and artists among homeless people, which relieved the fear of the homeless. I learned poverty is still one of the problems that humanity has not solved today. One of the problems that even advanced countries have not addressed is poverty. Actually, I still do not know how we can solve poverty. The resources that humans can use are very limited, so also I thought that maybe poverty might not be solved forever. However, I hope that our gaze on “poverty” will escape from prejudice.

2.  Discrimination :

• Discrimination is the act that exclusion, discrimination or disadvantage and infringe political, social, and economic equality without reason for reasons such as religion, disability, status, educational background, past, race, physical condition, nationality, age, Favor present, sex, appearance, sexual orientation, and etc. All kinds of discrimination started with “difference”. Some people didn’t accept the “difference” and they always thought they are right so that’s why the discrimination happens. A small number of people who are targeted at ‘discrimination’ are hurt by a multitude of actions, words and even gaze that discriminate against them. I have also been hurt by discrimination. I was doing homework with my friend. And one of the other friend came to us and gave a chocolate only to my friend. So I looked at him and he said to me “You should not eat those because you have to lose your weight” I was so sad when I heard that sound but it wasn’t just once it. That situation happens over and over. I saw my friends did, and one of my teacher in Korea did, my friends mom also said kind of that to me and I also saw in social media comments. And the most sad thing was if someone said to them “ It’s not your business” It will be better but nobody said that. I learned one of human developed in UN is ‘self-esteem’. But discrimination makes my self-esteem fell. We know around 7.7 billion people are now living on earth and all of that people can’t be the same. We have to respect human rights. We also have to accept that all the people in the world can’t be the same. This is the way that we can exist all kind of “Discrimination”