After watching the movie Hotel Rwanda, I was reminded of two big social issues throughout human history along with the modern society: the genocide and racism, which have threatened not merely the global peace, yet also the economy of those areas and sometimes even the world. Either the genocide or the racism should be criticized and averted.
In this movie, genocide took place between two ethnic groups – Hutu people and Tutsi people. Hutus savagely killed 10 million Tutsis according to the record and most of them wildly burnt all the houses, which Tutsis used to live and they even neglected the United Nation’s adjustion. The whole country suddenly changed from prosperous to poor, and the blooming Hotel Rwanda turned to be a refuge all of a sudden. All people cared about were how to survive or shoot the Tutsis to death, no longer even thought about the economy of their country, let alone devoting their spare time to build their nation. Trace back to the mid-1900s, a familiar genocide held by Adolf Hitler occurred on Jewish people was even more inhuman. As a result, the whole human being was the victim and this one definitely threatened the global peace and economy. Another well-known genocide is the “rape of Nanjing”. Japanese soldiers killed over three hundred thousand citizens in Nanjing only in 3 days. The shadow of this genocide still shackles the relationship between China and Japan and somewhat affects the development of global village.
Another social issue aforesaid is even more degrading. Racism is always one of the factors of all the inhuman events have been done. To take this movie as an example, if the U.S has intruded before or just during this genocide, not that many people would be killed and furthermore, the whole country would not be that deserted just as being forsaken. But they did not. Not only did the United States fail to help stop this massacre, but even worse, refused to acknowledge the horrors as well merely because this massacre would take place among blacks, not the white people. Nowadays, it says that people have been more civilized than before. Nevertheless, the racism still remains. It may not be expressed through violence but through the way people treat each other. Certain kinds of people are hard to get jobs due to the racism. Apparently, this social issue does affect the global peace and economy and to make the matter worse, the hidden racism is gradually harder fought with.
To sum it up, genocide and racism both should be dealt with and should be paid enough attention to. Hope the tears of innocent children will wake up the consciousness of every single person and let the freedom and peace ring from every state and city! |
