Today in AVID, my teacher brought up a recent event that I thought would be good to share with you all. In the University of Texas, "The Young Conservatives of Texas at the university in Austin planned to stage a fake raid, where players rounded up other players wearing T-shirts labeled "illegal immigrant" and were rewarded with a $25 gift certificate for each person caught." The chairman of the group, Lorenzo Garcia, claimed that the event was only to send awareness about the problem of immigration. Garcia's claim doesn't make sense. Why would you make an event like this when there are so many other ways of giving information to people about being aware of immigration. Lorenzo and the club might have taken this game as a "joke" but what they didn't realize was that they were touching a sensitive subject. I've notice that in our generation today, people tend to make comments as "jokes" before thinking about how it could affect other people. People tend to just make comments about different ethnicities and laugh about it like it doesn't effect someone else's feeling. It's like it is becoming a norm for people to do things like an "illegal immigrant" game without thinking it would bring harm towards others because they find that it's normal. Please share your thoughts about the article. Just thought I would share this since I thought it was interesting.
Here are two articles that talk about the incident:
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/11/19/21537743-texas-young-conservatives-group-cancels-catch-an-illegal-immigrant-game
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/11/texas-student-group-offers-25-reward-in-catch-an-illegal-immigrant-game/
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