Hate 'Em All
a short essay on bigotry24 total reviews
Comment from gypsycaravan
This is powerful reading and I especially love the ending where you admonish your mother for her bigotry but understand how she got there. That happens to most of us these days. A terrific piece of work, Ingrid.
reply by the author on 16-Feb-2015
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This is powerful reading and I especially love the ending where you admonish your mother for her bigotry but understand how she got there. That happens to most of us these days. A terrific piece of work, Ingrid.
Comment Written 16-Feb-2015
reply by the author on 16-Feb-2015
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Thanks..er...huh...you do know that many hate the gypsies, don't you? LOL.
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Interesting comment, Ingrid. Yes, lots of people hate the gypsies. Funny fact, I AM descended from a tribe of gypsies in the former country of Czechoslovakia. My maternal grandfather was a trapeze flyer with a traveling band of a gypsy circus when he met my grandmother. Now, people just hate me because they are jealous that I'm so wonderful-not because I'm a gypsy. LOL
Comment from kiwisteveh
Great response to the prompt!
You draw deeply upon your on experiences and share openly even those aspects which may be seen as discrediting yourself.
What your essay does most admirably is describe the many different kinds of bigotry and illuminate how its tendrils weave deep inside all of us, even though we may pride ourselves on fairness and tolerance.
remotely looked Arabic --> looked remotely Arabic
Good luck in the contest - this deserves to do very well.
Steve
reply by the author on 16-Feb-2015
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Great response to the prompt!
You draw deeply upon your on experiences and share openly even those aspects which may be seen as discrediting yourself.
What your essay does most admirably is describe the many different kinds of bigotry and illuminate how its tendrils weave deep inside all of us, even though we may pride ourselves on fairness and tolerance.
remotely looked Arabic --> looked remotely Arabic
Good luck in the contest - this deserves to do very well.
Steve
Comment Written 16-Feb-2015
reply by the author on 16-Feb-2015
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I'm guilty, but polite and intellectually enlightened. That's about all the credit I can give myself.
Comment from giraffmang
Hi there,
This was an interesting and intriguing read. Bigotry is almost a hereditary problem. It is very difficult to break out of that mould, and there is always something left behind, no matter how hard we try to eradicate it.
You speak a lot of truth here and it is imbibed with honesty and self-realisation. Id this fiction or not (it is billed as general fiction).
Having personally grown up in an extremely bigoted society and under terrorist threat on a daily basis I can relate to these aspects you have described.
An absorbing read.
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reply by the author on 16-Feb-2015
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Hi there,
This was an interesting and intriguing read. Bigotry is almost a hereditary problem. It is very difficult to break out of that mould, and there is always something left behind, no matter how hard we try to eradicate it.
You speak a lot of truth here and it is imbibed with honesty and self-realisation. Id this fiction or not (it is billed as general fiction).
Having personally grown up in an extremely bigoted society and under terrorist threat on a daily basis I can relate to these aspects you have described.
An absorbing read.
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Comment Written 16-Feb-2015
reply by the author on 16-Feb-2015
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changed the heading...thanks. Where did you grow up?
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Belfast, Northern Ireland. The whole Catholic & Ptotestant thing. Army on the streets every day. So called legitimate targets and so on. I had my school bag checked twice a day by security forces going to and from school for explosive devices.
I just thought everywhere was like that! Then you grow up and realise it's not.
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Same reason I thought daddies playing with their daughters was normal.
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Products of our environments. I think it is very different today with the mass news outlets and information technology. In some ways growing up without all that was better but in many ways worse too. Ignorance is bliss or a curse.
Comment from Walu Feral
G'day mate. This is a very powerful and well written piece that hits the nail right on the head. I hate any kind of descrimination mate, any kind. This is a great contest entry and I wish you luck in it. Cheers Fez
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reply by the author on 16-Feb-2015
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G'day mate. This is a very powerful and well written piece that hits the nail right on the head. I hate any kind of descrimination mate, any kind. This is a great contest entry and I wish you luck in it. Cheers Fez
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Comment Written 16-Feb-2015
reply by the author on 16-Feb-2015
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G'day. Let me guess...France? thanks.