Reflection #16

The Genocide and ethnic cleansing of Darfur, yugslavia, and other countries; this crime has become historical situation that remains present in existing countries today. It started in 1915 with of the Armenians by the Turks, and the current genocide of Darfur. In the center of the ethnocentrism is a direct correlation between these countries. There are children as young as seven years old being murdered over their position of being involved in the genocide of their own culture. Europeans do not treat African descent as equals, as they tend to separate themselves from the Africans, same as the Egyptians’ do not consider themselves Africans either. Europeans degrades against other groups, such as native, Hispanic, and Asian Americans.
Kofi Annan, believes that Rwanda is a prime example of genocide, and in most recent years Darfur has plagued the world with its numerous killings against Kosovo, serbs, and Bosnians. In the ethnic cleansing people lost their homes and belongings because they were forced out by their enemies. “Tens of thousands of women were raped, some of them more than a hundred times, while their sons and husbands were tortured in concentration camps like Omarska and Manjaca”. The current situations of these countries are being compared to the holocaust against the Jewish people, and how the Nazi’s tortured and killed many Jewish people, including the mentally challenged.
The insights that has helped me understand the history and current situations of genocide and ethnic cleansing is,in the history of other countries war has contributed to the genocide and ethnic cleansing of many countries, and it continues to exist in today’s poorest countries; even in the smallest manner there is even ethnocentrism in the American society, which is apart of the prejudice of ethnic groups, one culture thinks that their group is “superior to other cultures”. As it is known the American culture is Macro culture simply because America is diverse by culture allowing many to understand others, or form perceptions of others, but ethnic cleansing and genocide allows Americans appreciate what is in America.