PSYC12H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sehar, Symbolic Racism, Hutu
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No, his dream has not been realized yet. For example, 1994, in the span of about 100 days, 1 million people killed in the rwandan genocide (a conflict between ethnic tutsi and hutu) Masses of people going out with machetes killing their neighbors also occurred in world wars. In the late 1990"s, indonesia experienced economic turmoil, the value of their currency went down. There was mass and arrest, people started rioting. A number of years ago, there was a newspaper article, about the houston suburb opposing a plan for a mosque. A plan to build a mosque caused a neighborhood dispute, and one man threatened to hold pig races on fridays, just to offend muslims. Many neighbors claim they have nothing against muslims, and are more concerned about property value, drainage, and traffic. The issue here is that there was an empty plot of land in the suburb, that a muslim community.
