good evening
my name is young jae kwon and i'm going
to tell you about discrimination between
asian people
now let me ask you a question while
you're in korea have you ever
experienced racism no
yes they're not because most
koreans are asian so it is not common to
experience racism here but as you know
there are some racial problems in other
countries
after the spread of the coronavirus
which came from china
discrimination and racism against asians
has increased even leading to violence
the
investigated statistic shows that people
experiencing discrimination and
unfairness due to people thinking that
they might have the coronavirus
this graph shows
that asians experienced discrimination
the most with 14
now let me tell you some of the things i
experienced while traveling around
different countries
the first time i experienced some sort
of racism was in 2018
there was when i stayed in
the united states in order to experience
american education
one day while i was moving to my next
class
three students blocked my way and
started laughing at me
i tried to pass them but they blocked me
again i asked can i go then one of them
said oh yes with mocking tonal voice
after that i felt terrible but
it didn't help that there was only few
asian students in my school
so i couldn't ask for help
due to that situation i became less
confident at school
the second time was in germany 2019
one night i was walking down the street
with my family when suddenly a car
passed by and the driver and his friend
shouted hey chinese with
an aunt
left loudly
the comment was definitely unnecessary
and racist
in both these situations who's whose
fault
the country's city the specific race
none
i can tell it is with confidence
most of people i met in america and
germany were super kind
then
who's who's a fault
the answer is individual person
but why would they discriminate
others by
by their nationality and race
well i thought about the reasoning
behind and i found four reasons
number one we have our own views and
opinions
of other people
most of our personality and attitudes
are formed when we're young
so
if someone close to us is racist their
views will influence ours
the big problem with this is that we may
never know that our
opinion is wrong or racist
number two we have similar people around
us for example in korea most of people
living here are korean and use korean
language
it allows people to have similar culture
interests and background which are very
important for this ever growing society
however it also
create disparities between other groups
and it allows
allows us to think think that one group
is better than another
number three judging someone is just
easy to do
our society likes to stereotype
different groups of people here are some
examples
here is glasses so she must be good at
studying she will search skirt so she
must be a thug or player number four
we sometimes make channels for other
people to solve our problems
when we feel angry or tired
we often look for others to blame
as you know there are many workers from
other countries living in korea
there was
survey for foreign workers in korea what
is the hardest thing about living in
korea
the first answer was having a
conversation with 29 percent
and the second answer was discrimination
and hard work with 19
the next survey was about what
what kind of discrimination did you
experience in korea
certain and ridicule was the first
answer
i conducted a little survey
wait
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and i can't
i personally think
some koreans
discriminated them because they thought
they were higher
socially and economically than them
i conducted a little survey in our
school about have you ever used the word
they play
that blamed this or discriminated others
who had a different nationality
more than two-thirds of students
answered yes
and i asked a few friends what kind of
word they used
most of them said they used a word that
discrete that blamed others such as
chinese and japanese
many of us have bad stereotypes about
them for example chinese are in the
bottom of class and noisy while japanese
are rude and selfish these words are
easy to share in our in our daily life
but
yet please remember
if there is problem between different
countries we cannot and we should not
discriminate discriminate or blame the
people from the country
especially since everyone is different
don't expect to be respected unless you
respect others
this is a saying that i try to remember
before i speak to someone
then what can we do to change the mind
of people who follow the ideas of
discrimination
before we try to change others we should
start from ourselves
let me make it clear
there are no reasons or excuses for
discriminating
and being racist to another
it is just wrong socially and morally
so i ask you guys here today to change
and make a better world
for everyone starting with yourselves
we have we need to have proper attitude
and care for one another
we should all educate ourselves on
racism and discrimination
yes it would be hard to change someone's
mind because
some people make their decision and it
chose not to change it it is like a rock
but
with some time a drop of water can turn
a rock into some little soft sand thank
you