Freedom for Ethnicity
For my Media Blog 3 post I have decided to do my post on The boy in the Striped Pajamas, which relates to ethnicity and crime. As most people know from watching this movie, the Jews were treated very unfairly and didn’t deserve what they had gotten just because the Nazis weren’t fond of them. This movie demonstrated and showed just how terribly the Jews were treated and what they had to go through in the concentration camps. The Nazis were not fond of anyone who didn’t have the perfect traits that they believed so they decided to treat everyone else who Hitler didn’t like terribly and to put them in concentration camps. They were treated so terribly where millions of innocent people were killed because of the harsh environments that were in the concentration camps. Hitler believed that he needed to take out everyone and he basically brainwashed his soldiers to take out millions of people because of his views. Hitler was one of the most powerful leaders to ever live and it cost so many innocent lives. This movie relates to ethnicity and crime because a person can’t just kill someone because they don’t like the ethnicity that they support so this is a great example because Hitler and his army of Nazis took out millions of Jews. This movie relates to an article that we discussed in class which was, the Crimmigration Article because the United States doesn’t agree with the fact that immigrants should be allowed in the United States. Although it’s not hate or killing against these immigrants it still relates to the fact that ethnicity plays a role in the way that people shouldn’t be allowed to come over here. After watching the Boy in the Striped Pajamas shows that certain Ethnicities are not liked by certain people. The people who do not agree with some ethnicities tend to believe that they shouldn’t be allowed to do certain things. In Hitler’s view he thought that the Jews shouldn’t be a thing and he believed that the only thing to solve this is to form his army to get rid of every single Jew. It’s terrible how people can hate on a person for having an opinion and a view about their ethnicity or even their skin color. As we discussed throughout the semester cops tend to treat African Americans differently and it shows how they are more criminalized because police tend to think they are more suspicious and it’s terrible how people think things like this. Ethnicity is also a good topic that follows this as well because if a person sees a person wearing a turban there are people that automatically believe they are a terrorist. Just because as a part of someone’s ethnicity, they wear a turban doesn’t make them a bad person. It’s the fact that people put these pictures of someone wearing something or if they dress raggedy, they’re a bad person. No, that’s not the case at all. In The Boy in the Striped Pajamas it shows all the things that Hitler and the Nazis have done wrong to the Jews. Locking them up and making them live in unsafe concentration camps is so wrong and it’s terrifying that anyone can think of doing things like they did to someone . Just imagine if there would have been this in today’s world of how much trouble they would be in because none of the things that the Nazis did to the Jews was legal. Hitler took his anger out on them and shoved them in terrible living conditions then killed them in gas chambers. Who in their right mind would ever think that this is right? This was wrong in every aspect and no one deserves this, especially not a whole ethnic group. This movie opened my eyes to what wrong views people have against people who don’t believe the same as them. It shows that when a person doesn’t agree with the views of a person they will do everything they can to make them change that view because people don’t care about others who don’t agree with them. An example of this in today’s world would be when the Jewish synagogue got shot up out of nowhere in Pittsburgh because the shooter had a view that Jews shouldn’t be. It’s people’s views who take over and their opinions are what causes them to take things to the next level and kill innocent people. If anyone has never seen this movie, it is highly recommended on my list because of how eye opening it is and it’s one of my top movies of all time because of just how much it shows what the Jews had to go through during this time period. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1H2LQ7ziRjjPWfXWvcPZ00FMO0D8zJscLXmQOVit7RWY/edit
Payton Mohney