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Post by justinott on Jul 23, 2016 18:57:10 GMT
Some people have already mentioned the similarity of modern day racism such as movements like Black Lives Matter too other things such as housing problems. I wonder how these events would have effected children growing up at the same time and age of these events when Scout was growing up in the south. Another thing that effects Scout is her dad being a lawyer, and so he has close ties with the Police in the town that many children have in modern day, such as the children with parents in government roles. How close could Scouts learning be to a modern days children?
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Post by annalandolfi on Jul 25, 2016 17:24:04 GMT
Some of your wording and grammar were a little confusing, just as some constrictive criticism. But I understood what you were getting at: and I agree. I believe in the sense of Scouts and Jems views, they may be "ahead of their time", meaning simply their opinions and views on the blacks, and racism as a whole, are so drastically different from others.
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Post by avery young on Aug 10, 2016 2:47:18 GMT
To respond to your thought, despite the flagrant racism at the time of the novel's setting movements such as BLM would likely result similarly to how they do today - with white children such as Scout and Jem not fully comprehending the prejudice people of color, specifically black people, face. As far as Scout and Jem's views on racism and black people, they didn't seem that ahead of their time, especially considering how behind their time many- not all, but many- of peoples views still are today. This can be displayed by the recent events involving this very forum being overrun with racist, sexist, and homophobic remarks. Scout and Jem's ideas about people of color, despite being slightly prejudiced though much more forward than many people at the time, are very similar and in some cases even more open minded than those of people today.
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Post by jesselcrum on Aug 11, 2016 19:26:05 GMT
Racism is not as common as it was when this book was written. When the book was written, people of color were still at the bottom and were not viewed as equals. Of course racism still occurs to this day but it is not as extreme. There are extreme situations though. Back when the book was written, people of color worked mainly as maids or on farms but now it is quite the opposite. People of any race can get the same jobs as one another. Scout grew up to learn what racism was because of what she had to deal with but she still viewed everybody as equals and today, children, depending on their skin color, will never have to personally deal with racism. We all have seen it but its the same from in the book and now that not everybody will experience it.
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Post by hayleycurrin on Aug 12, 2016 16:47:58 GMT
I think I understand what your getting at and I do agree with Jesse that there is less racism today than there was then but I do think that Scout and Jem are ahead of their time. of course, because of their upbringing, they would be confused by the level of equality we have all managed today but I think they would enjoy living in this world. This is the world they were dreaming of. Today they actually have "equality at least when standing in the court". I'm not sure what they would think about BLM because recently that has taken on a new meaning with the recent police officer attacks. This might cause Scout and Jem to vilify African Americans because members of BLM committing murder doesn't give them the best impression of the world today. If they had been in the world today for more than this year, I'm sure they would appreciate it, but that could be hard for them when they have a father in law and wouldn't know how well things like BLM started out. They would fear for their father.
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Post by samuellongwell on Aug 12, 2016 20:42:25 GMT
I think that there is racism still prevalent in our society today, but it's a whole different kind. Back in those times it was all about African Americans not being viewed as equal as white people.
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Post by margaretsundseth on Aug 15, 2016 4:23:14 GMT
Scout and Jem were definitely ahead of their peers, but also very much so children of their time. While their open minded thoughts on people of color put them closer to modern day, their inherent sexism is of the '30's.
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Post by michaelamiles on Aug 15, 2016 5:32:49 GMT
For your racism imput I feel like that has slowly been put into the past, sure alot of things still happen between races and such. Then again I feel as if we are slowly growing into another topic, sexism. A bunch of arguments and discrimination happens so much for both Males and Females that feels like almost the smae thing. So I definently think its stil going on but Sexism is starting to take its place. Racism still happens so much though so you never know maybe, sadly it might make a come back.
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