Perfect Society
The world we live in today is far from perfect. As a minority, I see these imperfections first hand. There are inequalities between races and gender. I hope most people don’t mean to be prejudice or racist but it seems that is how they were brought up. If the environment around you teaches to hate others, it would effect that person regardless if they are a good person or not. For example, if a white man grew up in an environment in which blacks were hated; but this white man did not hate blacks himself. He felt blacks were good people and had no reason to hate them. Until he has a bad experience with black person and hates all black people. He would label all black people because of one bad experience with a person who happens to be black. This white man would think of all the stereotypes, all the negative thoughts associated with the black race that he has heard of growing up in that environment. Growing up in a society like that the deck is already stacked against you before you even experience anything. How would it be to start all over? How would it be to live in a society which had no prior history? Creating a utopian society where there are no inequalities. Can that be achieved today? The
With these different skin color, gender, and religions in this society, how are peoples interactions be like? Remember this society is created from scratch. Nothing has happened yet. The society will consist of young and old. Nothing has happened yet so, no history of colonialism, racism, slave-trade, or prejudice. With no history and all various physical attributes of people in one place would race exist? In Achieving Our Humanity, written by Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze, “Buffon, for example, classified races geographically, using principally physical characteristics as indices. But since he believed that there was a common, homogenous human origin, Buffon attributed the differences in bodily characteristics to environmental factors.” (Eze 102) If the origin of the people have a different bodily characteristics to begin with, then what of race? Unfortunately, this can not be realization (of just eliminating our past mistakes). Starting over, ethnocentrism would not exist; Kant racial bias writings would not exist. So the white in my society would not think they are superior then everyone else. The problem I see in my society, that can occur, is with religion. People with different faiths might get the sense of pride (which I try to get rid of from the elimination of nationalism) their religion is the best and everyone must follow it. If the people follow the religions fully then we might be alright, since most religions want you to respect other beliefs. If that is achieved then society might save itself from destruction. I cannot see a society without religion since everyone at one point thanks or curses a higher being. Maybe they don’t want to take responsibility for their own actions. utopian society I am proposing is just that, a fictional society in which I set the rules. John Rawls “realistic utopia” which he defines “political philosophy in realistically utopian when it extends what are ordinarily thought to be the limits of practicable political possibility and so doing, reconciles us to our political and social condition.”(Rawls 11) The “perfect” society in which I would live in and would want my family to live in would have to address many social problems. How would one start such an ambitious project? The society that I proposed is unrealistic and a dream, but I think achieving a multicultural society in this world today is the same. With so many different points of views and beliefs, it would seem impossible to find a common ground to make everyone happy. With history of injustices by the Europeans in Africa, the religious riots in India, and the inhumane treatment of people in China. It is hard for the people who experienced injustices to forgive. But we must learn from our past and open up lines of communications. Showing that not everyone who is white is evil; that anyone from Africa is not educated. We must come down to the basic core of that we all are human. And treat each other with respect
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Chukwudi Eze,
United America,
Laws Peoples,
John Rawls,
France Derrida,
Perfect Society,
Social Hope,
Europeans Africa,
Achieving Humanity,
democratic government,
liberal people,
upper class,
constitutional democratic government,
education opportunity,
bring people,
people living,
liberal peoples,
brings people,
bad experience,
fellow citizens,
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Approximate Word count = 2007
Approximate Pages = 8 (250 words per page double spaced)
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