A good example of the media stirring hatred is on Barack Obama before he was elected. The broadsheets published free magazines on Obama' s life history with their papers. Questions then started to arise if he was a Muslim as it was published in news articles, radio and and the Internet. This then led to some offensive comments made by the public and someone said "Obama is a terrorist in disguise".
Hillary Clinton used the media to stir up hatred too as she published pictures of Obama in a turban when he went to Kenya. People then started to assume that he was a Muslim because he was dressed as one and had a Muslim middle name 'Hussain'. Obama denies that he is a Muslim and says he is a Christian and that his father was a Muslim but he himself as brought up as a Christian. There are a couple of sites below that contain comments from the public on Obama.
http://www.danielpipes.org/article/5286
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-518585/Obama-turban-Barack-accuses-Hillary-smear-campaign-circulating-photos-dressed-Muslim-html
There were also issues about Obama's race as he is the first black/mixed race president. People are prejudice against him and similar prejudice existed in Freud's time because he was Jewish and was
seen as different, as diseased, as culturally incomplete. The category
of race had a real meaning for Freud through out his life, and it was
closely associated with the field of science. But the initial impetus for
the construction of these categories antedated Freud's formal
studies at the university of Vienna. Freud was made to realize this
attitude as early as his high school years. He noted that "In the higher
classes i began to understand for the first time what it meant to belong
to an alien race, and anti-Semitic feelings among the other boys warned
me that i must take up a definite position". As he told the nationalist
German-American journalist George Sylvester Viereck in 1926: "My
language... is German, my culture, my attainments are German. I
considered myself German intellectually, until i noticed the growth of
anti-Semitic prejudices in Germany and German Austria. Since that time,
i prefer to call myself a Jew".
Freud was labeled as a 'black' Jew but he wanted to believe that he was a 'white' Jew. ' A story is ascribed to him in which he was confronted with the question whether he was "all red" (a socialist) or "all black" (an Austro-fascist). He answered that "it was enough if a man were flesh-colored'.
Gilman, S, Freud, Race, and Gender
(Princeton),Princeton University Press, 1993
4 comments:
I hadn't seen these posts before.....sorry, I could have repsonded to them. How come I've missed these?
Anyway,carrying on from your comments about one's race, it is also interesting to note the cultural antipathy within the four countries of the UK, particularly between the Welsh and English. I’m Welsh and my nationality has been remarked on by several English people in a derogatory way. Sadly, I took it in my stride - the comments weren’t terribly offensive and I put it down to the ignorance of those who made the comments. Is this racism? Yes, I think it is…..bigotry, intolerance and downright narrow-mindedness. However, there is evidence of both anti-English and anti-Welsh sentiment and it’s pretty much a case of six of one. My sister has had interesting experiences, which I’d like to mention. She lived in Scotland for eleven years, where she couldn’t believe the racism towards the English as shown by the Scots. As we live on the Powys/Shropshire border, our welsh accent isn’t particularly strong so, initially, many Scottish people were quite rude to her. Once they discovered that she was Welsh, their attitude to her quite blatantly changed, with some even commenting that she should ‘welsh up’ her accent and wear a welsh rugby shirt to stop people thinking she was English! Others were quite vocal about their support for the IRA. My sister now lives in Beijing, where she mixes with a lot of American ex-pats. Their attitude to her nationality is extremely patronising and they see her being Welsh as rather sweet. Still, it’s the hatred that is incited by someone’s race as defined by their cultural and social characteristics that is beyond my understanding.
they have been here, u mite have just skipped past them it quiteeasy to do this
I had to edit some work on my blogs and therefore they were taken off and saved as drafts and I had to republish them. I think we all have been busy making comments on my other blog that's why. I have noticed a spelling mistake on my other blog 'Presentation', which I edited but is not changed on my blog I will have to take it off and change it. Sorry if this causes any inconvenience.
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