Identity, Otherness and Human Rights

I. Identity

[Unit 1 doc] 

A. Reading 1: Acid Attack and Identity 

Vocabulary (game):

1. 1.     identity 身份；本身；特性
2. 2.    victim 受害者；罹難者；犧牲者；犧牲品
3. 3.    foundation 基金會
4. 4.    chemicals 化學品；化學製品

In March 2014, something horrible happened to a woman in Colombia. Someone threw acid in her face. The acid burned her and she says that it is like she has no identity and that it is like being between life and death. Now, she wants to help other people who are also victims of an acid attacks. She is making a foundation to help them. She is also asking for people who make this attack to go to jail for up to 40 years. She also wants to make it more difficult to buy chemicals that could be used in the attack.

Write 3 questions about the reading:

1. Why would anyone throw acid?

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Write 3 questions that apply the reading to your life:

1. Have I ever been a victim?

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Answer the questions:

1.     Why does the woman feel like her identity is gone?

2.    Besides someone’s face, what else makes a person’s identity?

1. Colombia introduces harsher sentences for acid attacks

   
   

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Extra: Acid Attack Victims Empowered in Pakistan Beauty Parlor

II. Otherness and Human Rights

A. Reading 2: Islamophobia in England 

Vocabulary:

1.     Abuse 
Several of the children had been sexually/physically/emotionally abused.
虐待／肉體或精神上折磨

2.    Abuser 
a child abuser虐待者  施虐者

3.    Muslim 穆斯林，伊斯蘭教信徒，回教徒

4.    Veil面紗；面罩

5.    Islamophobia-? 對穆斯林的恐懼症 
Islam: 伊斯蘭教；伊斯蘭教；伊斯蘭教國家
Phobia: （尤指道理上無法解釋的）恐懼，懼怕

6.    Media 大眾傳播媒介，媒體

7.    Negative 負面的，消極的

8.    fuel 1. (n.) 燃料；燃燒劑 2. (v.) 刺激

A person abused a Muslim woman in a shop in London just because she was wearing a veil.She says that she often faces Islamophobia, and she filmed this one situation. People viewed the video well over 100,000 times on the Internet. Police are now looking for her abuser. The woman says that the media shows Islam in a negative one-sided way. The media should be more careful about what they show because they fuel Islamophobia. If people took their information from people like her and not just the media, then they would understand that Muslims are normal people.

Write 3 questions about the reading:

1.  What are some phobias?

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Write 3 questions that apply the reading to your life:

1. What phobias do I have?

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Answer the questions, use your new vocabulary (identity, victim)

1.     Why do people have Islamophobia?

2.    Is the media the only culprit? Explain:

3.    What are stereotypes about Muslims?

4.    If you saw a women wearing a Muslim headscarf, what would you think? 

5.    What are other words that mean the same as Islamophobia?

MORE VIDEOS:
困惑你的快樂穆斯林   The happy Muslims that confuse you
(Challenging the stereotype made by media) 


穆斯林女性戴與不戴頭巾的理由 Why I Do - Or Don't - Wear The Hijab

*the Chinese subtitle covered English subtitle

* original video: English subtitle

社會實驗- 看見穆斯林女子在公共場所祈禱，路人會如何反應？
Social experiment: when people see a Muslim girl praying in public space 

English with Chinese subtitle

為何人們會成為伊斯蘭極端主義者？ Why people become religious extremists

Investigating social and psychological reasons 

B. Reading 3:  London’s Muslim Mayor 

Vocabulary:

1. 1.     Elected
2. 2.    Former
3. 3.    Human rights
4. 4.    Lawyer
5. 5.    Margin
6. 6.    Mayor
7. 7.    Candidate
8. 8.    CV
9. 9.    Neo-Nazi
10. 10.  Political party

In London, people elected the new mayor, who is a son of a London bus driver and the former human rights lawyer. His name is Sadiq Khan and he is the first Muslim mayor of London. With a 13.6% margin, he was the popular winner. When Khan began to give his first speech as mayor, another mayoral candidate turned his back on him. He probably wanted to protest against Khan because he is a Muslim. That candidate’s own CV includes past membership to a neo-Nazi political party. However, that candidate only received 1% of the vote, so we can say that London turned its back on him first.

Answer the questions:

1.     Why would anyone protest against having a Muslim mayor?

2.    What does a human rights lawyer do? Where is it dangerous to be a human rights lawyer, and why?

3.    How many human rights do you know? Write them all down:

Watch a video on human rights and see how many more human rights you can write down:

Group Activity: Get into groups of _____. Pretend you are a country. If you had to choose only 5 Human Rights, what would they be, and why?

Taiwan and Human Rights: 

Can you guess, or do you know what areas Taiwan still struggles with in terms of human rights?:

Make an Identity Chart

C. OTHERNESS   差異性  他者[性]  
1. Teacher's definition: Otherness is  a condition of difference that is forced upon a group by a more powerful group. US vs. Them

2. How does Identity contribute 促成；導致 to Otherness? [the relationship between Identity and Otherness?]

3. How does Otherness contribute促成；導致 to Human Rights abuses? Give examples: