We’ve been known to take part in some serious discrimination and stereotyping and it’s about time someone called us out on it. Cheyef 7alak has gone ahead and done it again, this time with a fantastic clip about discrimination straight from a classroom near you. The only thing I would have omitted is the use of the N word- it is a derogatory term and though this video aims to fight racism- I don’t think that’s the way to go about it.
Nevertheless, the video below painfully pinpoints some of our most shameful prejudices, our utter racism and our inexplicable superiority complexes only to then brilliantly have us point the finger right back onto ourselves. Yes, in Lebanon we can ski and swim on the same day (though my good friend insists no one’s ever done that) but does that really give us the right to hate and discriminate?
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well they did say “nigga” and not exactly the N word.. anyways.. lets look at the big picture here and stay positive. (that all politicians will die lol)
Racism in Lebanese society (not everyone of course) is so deep-seated that people don’t even recognize how fundamentally wrong it is to treat people of different skin colour like dirt. What’s even more preposterous is that almost no one ever gets scolded for it. Maids for example are treated like second class citizens and on top of that, are minimally compensated for their labour.
I’d also like to add that not everyone needs a maid to clean up; these people need to learn to pick their shit up and raise their own kids.That’s what parenthood is all about.
Lebanese people love to stereotype, but I would like to point it’s present all over the world, because everyone stereotypes, when you go to a western country and say you are Lebanese, they think that you are a terrorist straight away…Isn’t that stereotyping?? The problem is that we think that we are better than others, while we always blame everyone around us for our misery we are the only ones responsible for it and we did not do anything about it but nagging and burning wheels …