05.07 Culminating Event- Current Social Issues (pt1)

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Hello, My name is Grace Garner and welcome to my ted talk
today,
I will be discussing a topic that has
piqued my interest since reading sociology in you,
why do minorities in a society compete against each other
instead of coming together after defeating the majority?
So
here is my
hypothesis.
I hypothesize
that minorities compete against each other for acceptance
from the majority.
I also think that due to them not ever having power,
they do not band together and overthrow the majority because they
do not have the means and even if they did,
that would not mean that they would gain power.
For example, many African countries overthrew the white majority but still rely on
european countries or did not gain an economic or political advantage for a while,
like Algeria
and South Africa.
So
here is my
explanation for
taking this,
whoops, that's the wrong side. I'm trying to go to explanation.
Was right side.
Okay, so
I decided to explore this topic because it's interested me for a while. Ever since
I read Sociology in you.
While I don't remember the exact chapter or lesson,
I remember it talked about how Latinos and
African americans clashed after the civil rights movement.
This was so interesting to me because
we've seen minority clashes in the United States
all across American history and before.
And it's so odd because many of
these clashes happened after the civil rights movement
because of these questions,
I wanted to explore this concept both nationally
and internationally.
So why do minority groups fight against each other instead of working together,
even when it's in the best interest.
So
here
is my
research method.
So,
to find the answer,
I decided to look at minority group uprisings from all over the world,
I decided to pick four occasions of
minority groups uprisings and investigate the aftermath.
So, first
is
South Africa
in the end of South African apartheid,
or the end of South African apartheid was supposed to be the beginning
of
a quote unquote
Rainbow Nation under nelson, Mandela and the likes of Desmond tutu.
So why are they now
practicing de facto segregation in South Africa?
And why is there a racial tension and violence
next of India?
So if the indian subcontinent rallied against Britain,
why do the people
of the
indian subcontinent
fight amongst each other?
For example, Pakistani versus indian.
Next is Rwanda.
How did Rwanda go from
Decolonization in 1962
To the Rwandan genocide? Just 32 years later.
And lastly,
I will be looking at the aftermath of
the insurgencies in Ethiopia's direct to integrate?
And this is from parallel paths to ethnic
hegemony.
From conflict among among rebels. Chapter four.
To find my answer, I have been reading
conflict among rebels, why insurgent groups fight each other by
customs,
you know,
Hey shadow!
After studying this book,
along with many other resources, I gained knowledge on how to explain these four
minority uprisings
and why the groups failed
to come together
after.
So
first is South Africa,
even though black South Africans were able to demolish South African apartheid,
They were not able
to unseat
pre existing
racial tensions.
The Durban riots of 1949 showed that
the country's black and Indian populations clashed
and would continue to clash even after
the white minority ruling class was demolished.
This shows how South Africa has not
yet mended their inter minority related conflicts.
And another interesting thing about them not being able
to amend it is if you have seen there also
a lot more um
nationalistic groups in South Africa, I think like just recently,
somebody who was um Zimbabwean was killed by a far right party in South Africa
because they believe that other immigrants from Africa are stealing their jobs.
So that is some hot water in South Africa right now. So
next we're going to India.
Relations between
Pakistan and India
soured after the part Trish in
of
the british raw.
In 1947, when the subcontinent was divided into two separate nations,
hindu majority India and muslim majority Pakistan.
The partition was complex and violent
And made worse
by the more than 500
sovereign princely states
Britain gave the states
the option to become independent or ruled over
By India or Pakistan.
And while the 50 states chose one state,
Kashmir did not integrate into India or Pakistan or gain independence.
And this caused the Kashmir conflict and cross border
terrorism,
which in turn led to the indo Pakistani wars
India and Pakistan fighting over Kashmir.
The british raw A. K. A.
The british empire was an impressive
regime responsible for an estimated 35 million
indian deaths.
However, the 1947 Jammu Massacre,
Just one of the many Indo Pakistani conflicts,
killed around 20,000 to 100,000 Muslims.
And this was the same year that the Indian subcontinent was freed from British rule
and now we have
Rwanda.
So we're going to also look at why Rwanda
um Rwanda's minority started clashing
after defeating the majority.
So before gaining independence from Belgium,
Belgium was required by the League of Nations to take
control over the german colonies of Rwanda and Burundi,
influenced by anthro
palmistry, classic classification by facial proportions.
The dutch or Belgium
selected the taxis to be superior
due to their
Hamlet or analytic facial traits
and to the dutch. This showed
that they were descended from
cattle herders.
This connection was enough proof for the dutch to give Tootsie special privileges
like higher administrative positions
and economic dominance over who to choose
or Hood. Hood two's
sorry.
This allowed for the minority tutsi population to
rule over the Hood two's after independence.
This caused deep class warfare and caused many fatal conflicts over the years.
However, in 1990 for just 32 years after decolonization,
the hook to
ethnic majority decided to take revenge on the Tootsie.
Even though it wasn't their fault for being put in a higher class
and
they massacred the Hook.
The Hook two's massacred
800,000 Tootsie
and raped an estimated 250,000 Tootsie woman
in the infamous 100 day Rwanda and genocide
Of 1994.
The genocide was caused
by
the hutu power movement
put to extremists and supremacist groups
and the cooperating state government of Rwanda after
the tutsi population was blamed for the death
of Rwandan president
juvenile.
Have ya Ramana a hut to who was shot down
in a plane and while the real assailant or assailants
were never found,
this may seem like and while this may seem like a quote unquote
endless tribal conflict in the third world country,
it's actually not because now Belgium's role in
creating the caste system of tutsis and tutsis
is being examined and reexamined and as of now
Belgium France and even the United States are being investigated
to see their influence and possibly instigating the Rwandan genocide.
So now
you're gonna be going to
Ethiopia and
the rich area.
So
the insurgencies in Ethiopia's Eritrea
and to gray
regions or the Ethiopian
enrich in wars
Came following the end of the Ethiopian Civil War in 1991.
After a 30 year irritation war for independence from Ethiopia
Eritrea gained a referendum
and peaceful separation
In 1993
following independence,
Ethiopia and Eritrea disagreed over currency and trade issues and
they both claimed the border regions of bad men,
Ta Tsorona Zalambessa and brew.
However, since the countries were close allies,
they set up a commission to look into their common border and disputed claims.
However this peace did not last,
which led Ethiopia and Eritrea to declare war on each other.
The Ethiopian eritrean war would become Africa's deadliest
border war instigated by Africa's poorest countries.
Many today described the conflict as
two bald men fighting over a come.
And to me this conflict is very similar to
the Oscar winning short film neighbors by norman McLaurin.
It's pretty good. I would suggest to give it a watch.
So
and here here's the pictures from
the Ethiopian war.
So
in conclusion was my hypothesis
correct? No my opinions have changed
or my beliefs have changed after learning the cold hard facts.
So I guess you could say I'm no longer
blind to the truth.
So this is why we symbolically taking off these sunglasses
and you can also see in the
in the quotes,
you can read them and they're both from the Ethiopian and eritrean war.
And to me they describe these conflicts very well. So
why do minorities in a society compete against each
other instead of coming together after defeating the majority.
So
one
I like to call it the forget me not effect.
It is when minority groups mobilized together over their mutual distaste
for the majority but are vulnerable to conflict
after an uprising due to pre existent and
Du du pre existent
instability and tensions
During this vulnerable time there is no major power to control any
clashes and I will continue the rest of them in part two
Because
he only has 15 minutes per.