Through this class I have learned that a lot of things revolve in cycles. In the movie La Haine Hubert tells Vinz that "hate breeds hate." There is a cycle of violence in the ghetto. When one man reacts on the violent acts of another man all that will result in is more violence. This continuous cycle brings down society because violence doesn't always have to be the answer. At the end of the movie Vinz seemed to realize that killing a cop wont bring his friend back, all it will do is get him thrown in jail or killed. Ironically he does get killed by not acting violently but by a cop acting wrongly. And after he gets shot the cycle continues because Hubert reacts to his friends death by pulling the gun on the cop.
What I find interesting is that we can find other cyclical reactions in other parts of life. For example the census and peoples reaction to it. If the census doesn't cater to everyone's race it will be verbally attacked and disregarded by certain racial groups. It seems that past census's caused confusion between which racial boxes to check. And by the peoples reaction the census was forced to change. But if there are now other groups not included in the census or feel they have been left out will they react the same way? In this case the cyclical nature of reacting to the situation has helped people improve the census. While the cyclical nature of hate helps degrade society.
Zachary Lewkowicz
-Post 5 June 7-
Good observations on the cyclical nature of societal issues. As the readings on discrimination for this week also pointed out, discrimination itself functions as a cumulative or cyclical process--that it is not an isolated incident or experience, but that discrimination creates more discrimination and past discrimination shapes what discrimination will look like in the future.
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