Tuesday, 8 March 2016

Black against Black?


Hey guys!


We watched the film “Long walk to freedom” about Nelson Mandela in three of our English lessons. It was a very moving film with many powerful scenes and now we want to describe the most impressive one.

At the end of the film, there was a scene where the black people started a civil war against each other. Some of them hold Nelson Mandela’s opinion, that it’s only possible with peace, and there is no other way to stop Apartheid, while the other ones had the same view as Winnie Mandela. They wanted war. 

This scene was so shocking, because the Apartheid was “black against white”, but by the time the black people started to slay other black ones, just because they had another point of view. It degenerated in a horrible massacre, where also innocent children died.

A recent issue, which is similar to the situation in South Africa, is the refugee-crisis in Europe. In our opinion, it is unfair, that the Syrians are discriminated by some Europeans just because they are foreigners to them and they have another skin colour or religion. Many Europeans are just afraid of the Syrians and they don’t know how to handle the new situation. We should give them a chance to start a better life here, because when we were in their situation, we would also expect to be accepted in another country.Think about that!

Have a nice day everyone!

written by Christina & Selina


1 comment:

  1. The fights between the black people were definitely not something Nelson Mandela wanted. I can understand that some people really hated the white community and that they wanted revenge. Nevertheless, I think Mandela's peace process was much more successful in the end.

    The refugee crisis pushes a lot of countries to become politically more right winged. Not only in Austria but also in a lot of other countries people don't want migrants in their country.

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