- a different religion
- pets
- children
- no money
- criminal records
2.2. PREJUDICE:
- I strongly believe prejudice will disappear from our society one day
- I strongly believe prejudice in the world will only get worse
2.3 INTOLERANCE: What kind of intolerance is there in your country? Rate them from 1(less tolerant) to 10 (most tolerant):
- religious intolerance
- racial intolerance
- intolerance based on class
- intolerance based on accent
- sexism
- intolerance to change
- ageism
- intolerance towards the homeless
2.4. MOSQUE: Spend one minute thinking of all the different words you associate with the word 'mosque'. Write them down.
2.5. DISCUSSION: Here are some questions you can try asking yourself before you come to our discussion on Wednesday:
a) What did you think when you read the headline?
b) What springs to mind when you hear the word ‘Islam’?
c) What do you think of the news in this article?
d) Do you think the open day was a good idea?
e) What do you think of Switzerland for holding a vote to ban minarets?
f) Why do you think there is prejudice against Muslims in Switzerland?
g) How are relations among different religions in your country?
h) If all religions teach the importance of harmony and love, why is their so much fear, hatred and mistrust among religions?
i) Would you like to know more about other religions?
j) What is needed to increase religious tolerance in our world?
k) Do you think the vote on minarets is religious discrimination?
l) What do you think of the tolerance of a party requesting a ban on the building of minarets?
m) Are you surprised only 53% of Swiss are against the ban (so far)?
n) Why do you think the Swiss People’s Party fears the construction of a few minarets?
o) Are Swiss business leaders right to worry about the vote harming Switzerland’s relations with Muslim countries?
p) Why do people talk about “Islamic” terrorism
PREPARING A DISCUSSION IS FUNDAMENTAL:
FIRST, YOU NEED TO LEARN NEW VOCABULARY AND EXPRESSIONS THAT YOU WILL HAVE TO USE FOR THE DISCUSSION.
SECONDLY, YOU HAVE TO PREPARE THE TOPIC BY LOOKING UP INFORMATION IN THE INTERNET, BOOKS, ENCYCLOPAEDIAS.THIS WAY YOU WILL FEEL MUCH MORE CONFIDENT AND AT THE SAME TIME YOU WILL HAVE MUCH MORE TO TALK ABOUT.
FINAL TASK:
Write a composition and leave it in the blog as a comment to Session 9, I will edit it in the blog so that everybody can learn from other people´s opinions.
Choose one of the following topics:
- express your opinion: Intolerance and illiteracy go hand in hand
- Muslims in Spain: prejudice and intolerance
First of all, I think the most important way of discrimination nowadays and ever is discrimination against poor people. Talking about Muslins, their countries are between the poorest in the world, so their population, just for this, is suffering from discrimination.
ReplyDeleteBut there are other reasons that made different Muslin from the rest of races, religion, countries, etc. It seems they have chosen a way that walks in opposite direction to western one. While western countries have kept religion away from political power, Muslim countries have placed it at the head of power what means they keep a social behaviour sometimes contrary to basic values in western societies, for example, discrimination against women.
All this have produced a confrontation between two worlds and caused, to make things a worse, a good excuse for extremist groups to use violence in defence of what they call Jihad.
Maybe because my education, of course, my position in this issue is totally in favour of secular states and complete respect for human rights.
People are always afraid when new and unkown things appear in their lifes. It can be considered normal and usual because nobody can’t control his or her feelings. However, everybody should be able to control their acts and to do this in a suitable way, it is necessary to have own ideas and be critic with them.
ReplyDeleteI really think that is the most important point, because when we have learn about other cultures and other people, we will surely decide a right action when a novelty appears in our life.
In conclusion, I agree with the topic: “Intolerance and illiteracy go hand in hand”, because I really think at the end we are afraid of the poverty and the destitution, and we don’t feel a real fear of foreigners.