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'''Crisis of empathy:''' | |||
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During the work on my bachelor thesis, I made an expansive exploration of the topic of emphathy and the ways to awaken it, while working on telling a personal story of a good friend of mine, a woman from Turkey who had to leave her home country to escape governmental persecution for her peaceful fight for the human rights.<br/> | |||
As a result of this research I concluded that emphathy can't base itself on the personal narration alone, especially in case of the citizens of the counties foreign to the spectator: without understanding of the political, cultural and social backgrounds, the spectator would have great difficulties in actually developing empathy for the protagonist.<br/> | |||
This also applies to the Ukrainian refugees: while Ukraine is much closer to Europe that Syria, Kosovo and other countries where other refugees came from; and while Ukraine and East Germany do share certain common historical background; and the Ukrainian refugees enjoyed much more acceptance than the refugees of other nationalities; there are still wide spreaded misconceptions and misinformations, coming hand in hand with plain obliviousness, clouding judgement and creating resentment. <br/> | |||
And exactly in the current social climate we would need education of the wide public on the complicated political issues, reasons and backgrounds, but told in the relatable, human way. | |||
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