Racism In Room 101

ROOM 101
Racism
Nelson Mandela once upon a time quoted "No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite." This is why I would be extremely delighted to put racism in room 101. There is absolutely no need for racism in this world. First of all, what do you gain from being racist: power, wealth or is it superiority? No, none of that! Racism is bullying and no one likes bullying. Would you like it if society classified you or judged your relatives by the colour of their skin? I can 100% bet one thousand pounds that you wouldn’t. Also,

do you know what’s worse? When irrelevant people, who have nothing better to do with their lives, are so threatened by your skin colour that they feel that vandalising the other persons’ property; thus throwing cooking flour, eggs at their house and smashing their windows will make them feel better about themselves. Does it make them feel better though? It is revolting, disgusting and aggravating to see how low some people can stoop just for their personal beliefs. It is the 21st century, surely, by now we should be over racism and try to sort out worse issues that we have on this planet.
Stereotypes
Stereotype; A stereotype is used to define a particular group of people with similar background, beliefs or appearances.

Stereotypes are the shackles of mankind. Personally, after racism, I really detest stereotypes; I just don’t understand why people in this world judge each other so much, it’s aggravating, irritating and infuriating. You can’t and shouldn’t judged someone over someone else’s actions; hence being the reason as to why God created everyone to be different and unique. For instance, one of the most common stereotypes that Indians are labelled with is that they love curry. “Oh I’m sorry” I didn’t know you get judged for liking a type of food. Individually, I love food and I also love curry but I am African, so does that make me an Indian? NO! Stereotypes can’t define a person and it shouldn’t define a race either. Why let someone else’s actions falsely define another person or why let someone’s skin colour define that person? For example: an albino is white but what if both of his parents are black, how would you define him, Black or White? Also, another thing that I hate, which I think a lot of teenagers can relate to, is when you’re walking down the street wearing a hoodie or a tracksuit and an older person in front of you sees you but chooses to cross over to the other side of the road because “you’re dangerous” or “a drug dealer” or maybe even “a serial killer” just for wearing that type of clothing. It’s actually truly pathetic classifying someone else by their choice of clothing as the last time I checked it was a free Country and you can wear as you please. I admit some of these stereotypes might be true but that doesn’t mean they relate to everyone. As, sometimes even I get quite terrified when I’m walking by myself and a see a gang of teenage boys in hoodies and tracksuits, but it’s because my brain is brain washed with all the negative things that’s said about them. Peoples’ personal characters can be unpredictable but it still doesn’t

allow us to falsely accuse them to being something else when you haven’t seen them do the thing that they’re being stereotyped for. However, it would be different if you witnessed them doing drugs, smoking or holding a gun in front of you.

Lies
There can be respectful lies and unwanted lies, but are lies overall acceptable? A lie, first of all, is supposed to be a statement or a comment that is inaccurate, misleading and false, so why would you want to give someone false information; is it going to benefit you? No but even if it did, lying is wrong and I am in actual fact sure your mother taught you that as a child too. I strongly believe that lying, just like the Dodo bird, should be extinct from this world and put in room 101. The word lie itself is never positive; it always carries a negative connotation. Everyone has lied to someone at least once in their life, even I have and it was wrong of me to. However, recently I tend not to lie as when I lie, I have a tendency to believe my own lie which can be reasonably problematic for me sometimes as I am a very gullible person. I understand that sometimes people lie for the right reasons but do you ever wonder about what would happen if that person finds out the truth later on? In my opinion, no one should be lied to, even if it might be for good intentions, after all, “the truth shall set you free”.