We want to move from the wide world into exploring our own cultures (school, municipal, religious, home) so write a blog post connecting Sullivan in any way you can to the themes from Rwanda or your other chosen conflict/incident. Some questions you may want to consider: How did the two (or more) groups become divided or chosen originally? How do groups get chosen at Sullivan? What outside influences increased/decreased the tension between the groups? Are there "outside influences" on social circles here at school? What sort of things do different groups value? What do they describe as the reason for disliking another group? How much of their opinion of "others" is based on fact or personal experience? How much is based on rumours, half truths, and propaganda? How do these messages spread through Sullivan? What stops students from learning more about others rather than believing what they hear or read? How did you choose your friends and "not friends"?
People usually divide groups with same coloured people usually but not always. They get chosen by how popular the person is and who they chill with outside of school and who they have for back if anything happens. Belgium's made it worse for tutsi's and hutu's by pressuring the. It is like that at school as well because friends pressure others made er friends to do stuff they don't wanna do, or like if their relative doesn't like the person that means u cant like them either, thats what happens in crew's as well if one person has beef with someone in the crew the whole crew has beef with them. Yes, there are outside influences on social circles at school, your friends from different school could tell you to do something to someone and u really got no choice, you have do it because the person is a childhood friend of your's. Some groups value religion some other groups value popularity, alot of groups value alot other things aswell. Groups may dislike others because someone in the other group said something about someone in the crews girlfriend or said something to a person in the crew aswell. Not much is based on personal experience, its more based on a friend of your's or someone in your family has trouble with others. Depends on the person because a lot of people just get to the people that are saying shit, and get the cause of the problem and confront the person, some people will talk it out and drop it but others will just start a fight right there. Messages spread through social media or people spreading rumours or sometimes the person tell the wrong person and it gets to they person they talking about. Some "friends" that want to see a fight they would pressure you to fight and a lot of people would peer pressure you, or if there are girls around a guys test goes up, they would do it make themselves not look scared or people do it to get their rep higher. I chose my friends that i have from childhood, and chose others from what i know about them,if they are going to stick their neck out if something would happen, and also how they loyal and trustworthy they are, like if you tell them something and they would keep it to their self.
My personal story is once someone told me that someone was talking shit about me and i got mad and i just confronted the person and they said they were not talking about me i got made and i punched him and we fought there.
Sukh there is some really great stuff in here. I love that you are connecting to families and crews collective impression about things. How if your uncle says someone is an idiot, the whole family has to say that. This is a trait common in many facets of life (like politics, cars, etc) and crosses most cultures. What human genetic or social reason for this do you think there is? Why don't more people think for themselves in groups/families?
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