Class Blogging Topic: Where is the love

The song "Where is the love" by Black Eyed Peas discusses many of the world's current issues, which include terrorism, misleading media, the US government hypocrisy, racism, war, intolerance and greed.

I find the song very meaningful due to the large amount of issues discussed and it also strikes me as a shock as i initially did not realise the large amount of serious issues that are currently present in our world.

In the USA the big CIA the Bloodz and the Crips and the KKK
But if you only have love for your own race
Then you only leave space to discriminate
And to discriminate only generates hate
And if you hatin you're bound to get irate
Yeah madness is what you demonstrate
And that's exactly how anger works and operates

The lyrics from the songs depict a vicious cycle that goes on, caused by our acts of hatred, prejudice, and discrimination. When one person, for example a chinese only love other chinese, the person will inevitably look down on or discriminate against other races, which would cause the other races to have hate towards, which would then cause to to hate them even more, spawning a vicious cycle.

There are other social injustices, such as in Singapore, many people here look down on other immigrants that come here to work, as people feel that the immigrants are taking away their job. There is also prejudice against them as people have the impression that they are loud, aggressive and self centered people.