Today, as we watched the video 'History of Racism in Canada', I was quite surprised how much racism they actually experienced here. For me, Canada is one of the most tolerant countries in the world, when I think about a country that accepts all people not depending on their social backgrounds or their culture, I automatically start thinking of Canada.
Here, in Canada live a lot of people with different heritages and for me, the canadians seemed as a nation that accepts 'everyone'. I actually don't know how we deal with racism in Germany. Is there an actual way to deal with it? I think it is pretty hard, because when a person starts to believe in their opinion, it's almost impossible to change their mind.
I chose the jewish people that flew from Germany and asked to live in Canada, because I was surprised that the canadians didn't want the jewish people to live here. When we talk about the Holocaust during the second world war we only think about all the jewish people that were killed in Germany, but because canada didn't want to let them into the country, they had to go back to Germany and were killed there.
I don't think that jewish people face racism in Germany anymore, because of our past and history. It would be awful, if there would still be Germans being racist against jewish people, I would wish, I could say, that there is nobody in Germany, but I don't think so. You can't control peoples minds and I believe that there are still people being racist against jews.
Personally, I don't know if I would be interested in exploring the Jews for my Inquiry project, because we talk about jewish people a lot in Germany. I would like to find out something about a group that isn't that familiar to me yet.
