Engy Ghattas


Spring Semester Midterm Project Proposal (racism and subjugated)


Course: Acts of Resistance


Professor: Doris Cacoilo


02/18/2020






Have you ever been subjugated or made fun of because of your belonging to a different nation, or simply because of your skin color or because of your religion? If the answer is yes, that will be considered to be racism. Racism exists in almost all cultures. Some people are still not aware of such issues, admitting they are not racists, while their actions and words prove another point of this deal. Unfortunately, even now, there are lots of people who find their race better than another, making the relationships unequal in all aspects. In my view, all people regardless of their nationality and skin specifications should be treated in the same way, equally.


Racism is always awful. But, still it happens in many different ways.


It is racism, when people:


Judge you which religion are you?


Play jokes about some particular ethnic group


Express their negative comments concerning another nation


Intimidate people because of their race, or religion


Leave bad comments online on social media


Abuse someone physically because of “not belonging”


Exclude people from groups because of their nationality.


As an Egyptian girl who lived in Egypt for 15 years, I have faced many kinds of persecutions since I am a Christian. In my school, there were always discriminations between Muslims females and Christian Females. As an instance, if a Christian female or a Muslim female don’t wear their school uniform, only the Christian female get punished and the other one is left free. Discrimination against Christians is a huge issue the whole world should give attention because as human being we should have the right of freedom to have faith in any religion . I believe that a country that has people who think they defend their religion by persecuting the Christians is a country that needs improvement in education. As students, we learn everything in school, then after we graduate, we apply what we learn in school in the real world. In Egypt, Christian students are being oppressed by being forced to memorize some parts of the Quran since these parts are major sections of the Arabic Language exams. People may not see this as a kind of persecution since persecution in their mind means killing or shooting people with a gun. However, it is still a type of mistreatment that the Christian students must deal with in their daily life.