Welcome to the online discussion for your General Paper holiday module on Prejudice and Discrimination. You may choose to participate in Post #1 (Genocide) or Post #2 (Affiramtive Action) or both!


AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
Affirmative action (U.S. English), or Positive Discrimination (British English), is a policy or a program of giving certain preferences to certain (usually "under-represented") groups. This typically focuses on education, employment, government contracts, health care, or social welfare. It favors minorities and women in hiring and in admissions to universities in an attempt to compensate for past discrimination. Positive discrimination is illegal under U.K. law.

Read the following 2 excerpts and write a reflection based on the question that follows:

( Article A: The Danger of Diversity )

( Article B: Why Race And Education Are Still Up In The Air )



Question for Reflection:"Can you see any circumstances why your own country might need to employ Affirmative Action policies in employment or education areas? How beneficial do you think Affirmative Action really is?"

Please give your answer in the comment post below in this format (cut and paste):

Name:
Class:
My reflection:
Any Website or Article link on this matter I recommend to my classmates?:


Each person should also post 1 REPLY to any classmate's post commenting with your personal thoughts on their post or adding more information and links to their post. While we want free and open discussion, as these are potentially sensitive topics, we encourage tact and maturity in your answers and offensive answers will be removed. :)

Your GP Teacher

Welcome to the first online discussion for your General Paper module on Prejudice and Discrimination. This week, you may choose to participate in this Post #1 (Genocide) or Post #2 (Developments) or both!


Genocide in the 20th Century

In class, your teacher will have shared with you articles to do with the nature of prejudice and perhaps asked you to analyse an extract from Hitler's 'Mein Kampf'. (Read the full text here.) This is just the very tip of the iceberg when it comes to how much racial hatred there has been in the 20th Century.

As we enter a new century, let us look back at the blood-filled century we left behind. How well do you know this century and what motivated nations to commit widespread killing with the intention to wipe out an entire race, also known as the genocide?



Your task in this post is to help build up the class' pool of knowledge about incidences of genocide in the 20th century or earlier. Each member of the class should do some investigation and MAKE A COMMENT POST OF 1 GENOCIDE EPISODE and each person should also post 1 REPLY to any classmate's post commenting with your personal thoughts on their post or adding more information and links to their post.

In your comment post, please follow this format (you may cut and paste):

Name:
Class:
Genocide Event I Am Writing About:
Date of event:
Approx 100 word summary:
Why I chose to write about this event or any personal reflections on this:
Website or article link for my classmates:

Try not to repeat posts. If the event you wish to write about is already there, you may pick a specific aspect of the event to post on instead such as the causes, effects, methods, world reaction, photos are welcome (though please do not hotlink), or even art or literature review that reflects the event such as movies like Hotel Rwanda. Some genocide episodes to get you started:

- Bosnia-Herzegovina: 1992-1995 - 200,000 Deaths
- Rwanda: 1994 - 800,000 Deaths
- Pol Pot in Cambodia: 1975-1979 - 2,000,000 Deaths
- Nazi Holocaust: 1938-1945 - 6,000,000 Deaths
- Rape of Nanking: 1937-1938 - 300,000 Deaths
- Stalin's Forced Famine: 1932-1933 - 7,000,000 Deaths
- Armenians in Turkey: 1915-1918 - 1,500,000 Deaths
- Author/Bibliography

Quote of the week: "All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul."- Mahatma Gandhi

Your GP Teacher.

Article to be added.

Ms Wong