Alien Invasion

The aliens are taking over! Our country is not safe!

Seriously? What’s with the ridiculous anti-immigration propaganda's?

 

 

Do these people realize that they are spreading hate and performing irrational acts? Do they realize that they are practicing hate propaganda? The technique used (if they are aware of their act) to spread this hate is called “Name Calling.” What is it? Well, it’s basically name calling or “a device to make us form a judgment without examining the evidence on which it should be based . . . by giving ‘bad names’ to those individual, groups, nations, races, polices, practices, beliefs, and ideals which would have us condemn and reject” (Institute for Propaganda Analysis). Don’t the pictures above nicely apply to that definition? This type of propaganda is a bunch of hateful words. And within those millions of anti-immigratns, many confidently spread them throughout the nation. I’ve seen  a lot of protesters that spreads a lot of negative words which I find somewhat offensive.

Why? This issue is personal to me since I have family members that are immigrants. Obviously! I’m Asian with Asian parents and grandparents and great grandparent and great great grandparents that are from Asia. My ethnicity was not born on this land, and so does yours; Native Indians were here first. Did people forget the history they learned in 5th grade? And if you remember you should be aware that throughout the American history, the United States can be a big bully. The most common “reason” why immigrants should be deported is because of job issues; “They’re taking our jobs!” Yes, they do come here for job opportunities; and isn’t that reason why everyone's ancestors’ migrated in the U.S. in the first place? Isn’t this country called The Land of Opportunity? So, can someone tell me exactly how immigrants steals jobs? There’s no sign or law that says “This Job Is For Immigrants Only.” And as for the illegal immigrant; they have no social security, how will they even get a decent job? They have to work with poor labor and get paid under-the-table with very low wages. Do the majority of anti-immigrants want those type of jobs? I wouldn’t lol.

Remember Arizona who passed an immigration law which allows police officers to ask anyone who they think is an illegal immigrant for proof of status? After kicking out a lot of illegal immigrants, mostly Mexicans, I heard that the law backfired. They said that Arizona is losing a bunch of money because of the law. I’m not sure if this is true or not but I can’t see why it could be false. Many companies had to get rid of their employees; less staff would mean slower production; slower production would mean slower profit; slower profit would mean losing a bunch of money. In my opinion, I find this law extremely racists. How would you feel if you as an American citizen were asked to prove your identity of residency or citizenship because you look like your from Mexico? Its not right.

I’m sorry to get all aggressive with this subject, but such harsh words are just horrible. I mean, only if anti-immigrant really have a good understandable reason why immigrants should leave then I wouldn’t be so *gaah* about it. But noooo, they had to say mean stuff. =’(

It saddens me that such hate still exists. When will people really unite and accept each other as brothers and sisters? <3

the www.

I will admit; I don't watch the news or read the newspaper. I seriously do not have the interest in that type of media. And because of that, I'm usually unaware with a lot of things. I know, I should keep up with the current events; but don’t you all just get tired of hearing “bad news” on the news all the freakin’ time? It is usually about murder, war, celebrity gossips, and a whole bunch of other stuff. 

Just because I don’t watch the news or read the newspaper doesn’t make me completely clueless about current events. The most common source people use nowadays is the Internet. But, I don’t read news articles on there for fun either. If my homepage were Yahoo! or MSN, then I’d probably read an interesting article under the Today section. Since my homepage is Google, there’s nothing on there except the word Google with pretty font and a search bar. So where do i really get my current events from? Facebook.

The latest event that I found out on Facebook was the tragedy that happened in Japan.  My wall was completely spammed with, “OMG! Japan is going crazy!” “My prayers goes to the people of Japan.” I then decided to search it online, but nothing new about Japan was on the Internet, since the tsunami had just started during that time. So I decided to post my own status asking, “What’s going on in Japan?” All answered with, “Turn on the news, its on every channel.” I was shocked from what I saw.

There’s also this other website that I always go to. It’s called 9gag where a bunch of people upload tons of pictures of Internet fads. People kept posting images of Egypt and the Internet like the two below.

I was confused, I didn’t know what was going on. I didn't get any of their jokes. The funny part is, instead of looking for a news article to read online, I went on Facebook and ask my friends; their short answer were, “they want a revolution and their leader down.” Then I decided to read about what was going in Egypt, and I was surprised how late I was. I had no idea that the revolution has been going on for awhile and that had to be one of the most important events going on. That’s what I get for not watching the news or reading the newspaper lol.

Why don’t I just turn on my T.V. in the first place? I rely on the Internet for everything just like many other people around the world. I gather all my information from there.The Internet provides everything from social connections, games, tutorials, music, and a whole bunch of great stuff. Soon after any major incident, there will be a rapid spread of information from people by posting  videos, blogs, and articles all over the Internet. Who ever invented the Internet is just brilliant. It made our lives so much more convenient; its just so darn useful. Come to think of it, I should Google the inventors of the Internet lol.

She said what?!

There’s so much stuff to talk about when it comes to the media and its prejudice approach. The list can go on and on. I really can’t say if they do it on purpose, or not; I really don’t know. But prejudice has been involved in every type of media for a very long time.

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The media, in my opinion, is a bunch of mumbo jumbo and oddly entertaining at the same time. It is such a powerful tool that can manipulate people’s mind.Everything we like or do is influenced by the media. The way we dress, act, eat, etc. Our media says that hair is disgusting (except your head), so we shave; but if you’re a man who shaves, then that’s not manly (except if you have an excuse for being a swimmer). They say girls are hot if they have big boobs, so they get boobie implants; they say you’re good looking if you put a bunch of makeup on and outline every single thing on your face (lol jk). I’m not saying that everyone is influenced by the media, but do you all get what I’m trying to say? Because of such image or information that the media shares, a lot of people can be offended or insulted. For instance, I knew a girl from high school who did not shave her legs. Kids made fun of her and called her disgusting and dirty. I do not know the real reason why she choose not too shave; maybe because of her culture, religion, or maybe she simply wish not to. Who really says that hairy legs is disgusting and dirty? We all do; the media, you, and me (lol). It’s because it is part of our norm. And if someone decides that he/she does not want to follow the norms of our society, then he/she is considered as taboo.

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Movies! Have you seen any Asian in movies that has acted the main role, that has nothing to do with kung fu? What I found funny was when a crappy movie titled, Dragonball: Evolution that ruined an absolute amazing Japanese anime series that is based from, casted Justin Chatwin (a white dude) to play the main character, Goku. There are a bunch of hot buff Asian men out there that has amazing martial art skills that fits the role 100x better than Justin Chatwin. Some people felt insulted because of how the movie industry cast roles base on stereotypes. I don’t take it personally. All I do is laugh about it, because in reality the stereotype in movies are mostly true (lol).

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To be honest, I don’t think that I’ve been affected by insults towards my ethnicity, gender, or race from the media; well at least not often. The reason is because; I guess you could say, I learned to accept the “reality.” Some of you are probably saying that I’m nuts to accept such ugly things. I do not accept the ugly part of it at all. What I accept is that no matter where you go, prejudice exists. If I choose to continue to stress about it, then I will constantly have mental sufferings. Instead of arguing about how wrong it is, I change the way I think about it; in a positive way. How is that possible? For example, we now have Youtube. And in Youtube or other video-sharing website, there are a bunch of offensive videos posted by “trolls.” A lot of people take these videos seriously, and I know “why do people make others mad on purpose?” I really don’t know (lol). I guess they find it fun. I recently found a video rant about a white girl from UCLA who . . . just watch the video of you haven’t yet.

A lot of Asians and even other ethnic groups found this video really offensive. When I saw this video, it did not affect me in anyway. It did not get me mad, sad, offended, or whatever. Simply because some part of what she said is true. We are loud! (lol) Well because that’s how we speak normally, and it really does annoy the crap out of me; I always think my mom is always yelling but that’s just how she talks. But to get to my point, instead of taking this video negatively, I told myself that hey, there’s a lot of Asians in that school especially in the library (lol jk). There’s always going to be a silly girl like her out there. Prejudice will exist for a very long time. I know it's wrong, and brave people do a bunch of things such as awareness. So when you see something that may be offensive, you can just laugh about it so it would not mentally hurt you. It's only the media after all; don't let it affect you.

you say there's no freedom?

free·dom

   [free-duhm]

–noun
1. the state of being free  or at liberty rather than in confinement or under physical restraint: He won his freedom after a retrial.
2. exemption from external control, interference, regulation, etc.
3. the power to determine action without restraint.
4. political or national independence.
5. personal liberty, as opposed to bondage or slavery: a slave who bought his freedom.

Unfortunately, there’s  a total of 16 definition of freedom on Dictionary.com; I only listed the first five.

We take freedom for granted. We always say, I live in a free country; I have the right to do this and do that. We protest. We write about our thoughts on blogs or even do video-blogging. We have television with thousands of channels to choose from. We have the Internet to communicate and gather information from different countries. We have the freedom for:

• religion
• speech
• expression
• choice
• assembly
• and so on . . .

We are able to do so much and yet we still complain and want more. Some people ask, “do we really have freedom?” Reason why they ask is because of how the government “control” so many things. One of the major controversy is that people should have the right to pick their partner. I’m talking about gays and lesbians. Why can’t they have the rights or freedom to marry? Why not marry the person you love? People can be married to a robot doll but not a person with the same gender LINK. Weird isn’t it? Even if they cannot register to marry, at least they can still live their life as a married couple. My point is, we somehow are not satisfied enough. I don’t mean to offend anyone, but please at least consider that we are lucky to have the “freedom” and opportunities that is provided for us.

Imagine living in North Korea, a communist country. You will be completely isolated from the rest of the world. There are books, television, and radios, but their entertainment is only about how “great” their dear leader, Kim Jong Il (김정일) is; he rules the whole country. Okay, it's not entertainment at all, it's all propaganda. I once saw a documentary titled “Inside North Korea” by National Geographic. Americans citizens are completely not allowed to even step one foot in North Korea. So the filming crew went undercover pretending that they were doing a documentary about the cataract surgery that was performed by the medical crew they went with. If you have not yet watched this film, you will be astonished by the number of people who needed cataract surgery. There was over 1000 patients that needed the surgery. One of the causes of cataract is poor diet. Because of isolation from the rest of the world, there is no trade; so where do they get their food and the resources they need from? Obviously, the whole country has no food, or at least barely has any food that can feed the people. What I found really astonishing is how the people did not thank the medical group; every single patient thank and bowed to an image of their great leader Kim Jong Il. I don’t know if they’re completely brainwashed, or if they are just in extreme fear. Actually, not every North Koreans are “brainwashed.” There are some who attempted to flee the country but failed. North Korea’s borders are strongly guarded with snipers, barb wires, mines and electric fences. And if you try to cross those borders, they will not hesitate to shoot you. Those who try to escape are considered betrayers, and want them dead. There was this one man who used to work as a guard on the North Korea borders who attempted to escape with his friend; sadly the friend did not make it, he died from the electric fence. The one who escaped was able to flee to South Korea, but  unfortunately  the North Korean military found out about his escape and as a result they executed his whole family. If you do make it out and lets say you fled to China, China will send you back to North Korea and you will be executed. Scary huh?

Starving children and adults

The website I got this image from says that those people fled to China but was sent back to North Korea. As a result, execution. 

Women in the military. I'm not sure but I heard that these girls were orphans that was forced to be in the military.

Propaganda is used everywhere. The brainwashing starts in a young age

Obviously, I know 100% that you will never in your life would want to live in a place like North Korea. People from North Korea has like 0% freedom, and we’re here whining about why marijuana is illegal, why we pay too much taxes, and bunch of other stuff. All I'm saying is, we take our freedom for granted and we don’t realize that there are people out there who has never tasted what a little freedom is like.