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Cry, The Beloved Country

 

             The world in which we live is saturated with variety of different dialects, skin colors, and facial features. Each of these represents people, people who are unique to their region of the world and who have made their own individual history. Every people group, whether it is spectacular or something common, has a history. Although it may be true that every group does not have a history that could prove that its people used wisdom when troubles arose, there is always that history to learn from and hopefully gain insight for the future years. As authors began to write about their home country, talking about both the negative and positive, people from other places can see the similarity between the respective countries. People then realize that problems have no borders and that no one is exempt from them. In Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton brought out three specific problems that were obvious in South Africa, what he may not have realized was that these problems are prevalent throughout the world. .
             First, the biggest problem to hit South Africa at that time was the racial discrimination. This discrimination kept the blacks totally separated from the whites to the point that if a black man and white man were together and something bad happened, the black man was immediately blamed. Similar to this situation the English and Irish used to hold strong feelings against each other. This hatred that they had for each other would go to the extent that bombs would be set off to kill as many of the opposing people as possible. This discrimination has been around for years. Likewise, in Texas there is also a discrimination to deal with. When a white person is talking or thinks about a person of a Hispanic background the white person will most likely put him in a class that has low paying jobs and the people are poor. Although the majority of the foreigners in Texas are going to be a Mexican immigrant or descendant they should not be automatically stereotyped into the lower class.


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