Four Corner Debate by Raymond Repka

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Debate statement:
“Contemporary society has done enough to respond to the legacies of historical globalization.”
The criteria that I based my position on were the following:
 What does responding effectively mean?
 What legacies of this issue(s) have led to contemporary globalization?
 What is a legacy?
My position for this debate is strongly disagree. The events that have occurred in the past still affect society today. Take an event like the Rwandan Genocide that happened a little under twenty years ago, eight hundred-thousand to one million people killed within one hundred days. The Rwandan Genocide had begun in April immediately after the President of Rwanda and Burundi’s plane was shot down. Tutsi’s, which made up the minority of Rwanda but were the higher class cattle farmers, were accused of shooting down this plane. At that point, the Hutu’s had begun a genocide that shocked the world. As you seen in the movie, Sometimes in April, the American government does not do as much as they were capable of. Romeo Dallaire, who was appointed Force Commander for the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR), where he witnessed he country descend in chaos. Since he has retired, he has written two best-selling books, founded The Romeo Dallaire Child Soldiers Initiative, an organization committed to ending the use of child soldiers worldwide. He was involved in the Genocide and he has said that there was much more that he could have done to help; but he didn’t, and he is still mentally and emotionally scarred. The Belgium, French and Americans and at the United Nations were aware of the Hutu’s plans of slaughtering and did not take the steps to prevent it. They never did anything to eliminate the radio broadcasting promot...

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...rom all races of any other color – black, Asian or anything else.
Position – strongly disagree
Reason – people should not be discriminated against because of their race or ethnic background. The major event that turned the whole event around was a photo of two people protesting, holding a child dying in their arms. This made the apartheid change and eventually broke it. The people of different origins that were not white were shunned and it was almost acceptable at the time because the black people at the time were still not accepted in to society.

Works Cited

 "The History of Apartheid in South Africa." The History of Apartheid in South Africa. N.p., n.d. Web. 03 Dec. 2013.
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 "The Rwandan Genocide." History.com. A&E Television Networks, n.d. Web. 02 Dec. 2013.
 "Sometimes in April." IMDb. IMDb.com, n.d. Web. 05 Dec. 2013.

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