When I watch District 9 and see aliens being treated as second class citizens in Johannesburg, South Africa; being forced to reside in shanty towns on the outskirts of the city and having to live with unfair laws and abuse, I can't help but think about Apartheid. If aliens were to randomly come to Earth and have to stay I would not doubt if people wanted to treat them they same way they are treated in this movie. Especially if the aliens looked anything like they do in District 9, people would be way too afraid to have their kids go to school with them or even live in the same neighborhood as them and they would be outcast from society.
Black people in South Africa had to live in very similar conditions as the prawns in District 9 when South Africa was under Apartheid. They were forced to live in segregated ghettos, required to carry around passbooks with all of their personal information, and had to follow extremely strict and immoral laws.Black people have even been suppressed in the United States by the Jim Crow laws. Racism, segregation, and ignorance have been common traits in human society throughout history and that will ultimately lead to our demise.
Everyone deserves equal rights, even beings from other planets. The citizens of the world in this film were too ignorant to see that the prawns were actually quite similar to themselves, they had feelings and wanted freedom just as any human would. It is the same reason that racism still occurs today, people only see what they want and for a lot of people it is almost impossible to get past their perspective and see from another point of view.
Black people in South Africa had to live in very similar conditions as the prawns in District 9 when South Africa was under Apartheid. They were forced to live in segregated ghettos, required to carry around passbooks with all of their personal information, and had to follow extremely strict and immoral laws.Black people have even been suppressed in the United States by the Jim Crow laws. Racism, segregation, and ignorance have been common traits in human society throughout history and that will ultimately lead to our demise.
Everyone deserves equal rights, even beings from other planets. The citizens of the world in this film were too ignorant to see that the prawns were actually quite similar to themselves, they had feelings and wanted freedom just as any human would. It is the same reason that racism still occurs today, people only see what they want and for a lot of people it is almost impossible to get past their perspective and see from another point of view.
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