Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Can One Person Make the Difference?

Last week, I read about an article about one man in values class and I think each of us can make the difference. That is because there are at least one person who has the same idea as that person. People can make difference depends on how they accept what they are different from the others.For Example, the Hong Suk Chun, a gay man, who spoke out the world that he is a gay. Actually, many people hesitate and insult him, but by going forward his own personality, many gay people start to go into the society. And now, there are organization for gays, gay bars, and books about gays. Therefore, as seeing this example, we know that one person can make the difference. Also, because of him, many people who are not gay can accept and get the knowledge about those gays, so it also gives advantage to normal people. From the ESRL's I learned that this relates to Caring Global Citizen, because if this person does not speak out about the gays, then maybe people still insult gays, but by knowing those people, we understand that there are people who have different personality and characteristics, so citizens will care about those people. Therefore, I think it this relates the Caring Global Citizen. Actually, this article does not affect my experience because I am a girl and I do not know how boys are feeling about being a gay. Some girls are lesbian, but we do not insult those people because it is depends on people. Different people have different opinion and personality. I do think this way maybe because he speak out about the gays and everyone accepts it. Then it became normal to everyone. It might affect me to know about the people who love the same gender as they have.If I were him, I will to the exactly the same thing as him because those are the only way I can tell about myself. I learned that there are many people who have really different personality or characteristics from the other people and we should understand those people, because the person is still a human being. As a result, I think one person can make the difference by having strong thoughts on their mind and trying to do something with it. The effort will be rewarded.

1 comment:

  1. This is basically the same well-organized paragraph that you wrote earlier with some minor changes and the addition of one sentence:"I learned that there are many people who have really different personality or characteristics from the other people and we should understand those people, because the person is still a human being."It shows empathy. Earlier you wrote "Different people have different opinion and personality" which also demonstrates empathy. Although you don't state it directly, it seems to me that empathy is a personal value. You must make these connections, and they must be explicit. Do not leave it to your reader to make the connections for you.

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