{"id":5586,"date":"2017-03-28T06:08:04","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T06:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/?p=5586"},"modified":"2017-03-28T06:08:04","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T06:08:04","slug":"a-letter-to-the-editor-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/archives\/5586","title":{"rendered":"A letter to the Editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A letter to the editor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dear Editor,<\/p>\n<p>I am writing in response to a letter I have read about ending discrimination, which was posted in Young Post on 7<sup>th<\/sup> October.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>No matter whether it is in the past or at present, racial discrimination has always been a serious issue.\u00a0 Racism may lower one\u2019s self-esteem and even result in bullying.\u00a0 As mentioned in the letter written by Lee Min-hin, many students from countries such as Pakistan, India and Nepal face discrimination and prejudice in Hong Kong. These students may feel worthless and alienated just because their skin tone is different form the others\u2019. \u00a0Day after day of being teased and insulted, it is impossible to expect them to still be optimistic, bright or confident.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bullying aside, let\u2019s take a look at the even a bigger picture \u2013 racism is affecting the whole world. Take America as an example.\u00a0 The number of interracial homicide cases there has surged by nearly a quarter since 2014. \u00a0Interracial homicides, the slaughtering of a race by another, climbed to their highest level in 2015 since Barack Obama was elected the President of the US.\u00a0 Killing itself is already as an unforgivable act, but ending someone\u2019s life out of hatred towards his or her race is absolutely inhumane and cold-blooded.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is saddening to see a world full of bias and hatred.\u00a0 This is why we should stand together and remedy the situation instead of watching it with folded arms and letting it crash and burn.\u00a0 I believe the root of the problem is that people do not understand how much pain and trouble they inflict on others by a simple racist comment.\u00a0 The government should take up its responsibility to educate the public. \u00a0Holding talks and seminars on topics like racial discrimination can help students understand the wrong in their behavior and let students being bullied know that they are important, respected and their voices can be heard. \u00a0The government can also produce advertisements and release publications to raise the public\u2019s awareness of this issue to try to encourage harmony in society and solve the problem of racial discrimination and remove hatred among different races.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As humans, we should respect all races and cultures. \u00a0We deserve being respected and so do people of all other races.\u00a0 Citizens of the Earth, let us join hands to live for the better tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<strong>A letter to the edito<\/strong>Dear EditorI am writing in response to a letter I have read about ending discrimination, which was posted in Young Post on <sup>t<\/sup>October.No matter whether it is in the past or at present, racial discrimination has always been a serious issue.\u00a0 Racism may lower one\u2019s self-esteem a.........<a href=\"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/archives\/5586\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a>","protected":false},"author":194,"featured_media":8474,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","language-en","classlevel-s3","schoolyear-48"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5587,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5586\/revisions\/5587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}