Current ethnic conflicts

As we know an ethnic group is many people who share similar things as language, religion, clothes, between others forms of life. They feel identify with a group of people and they defend their thoughts and living forms. This kind of group tends to fight with all the people who make feel them touched without respect and when they are discriminated. So, this kind of feelings can provoke an ethnic conflict as the current ethnic problems that we live nowadays.

There are many reasons that can promote the mentioned problem as political, economical, ideological, and society troubles. I think that all of them can be summarized in society problems… but, I am going to mention it divided. Why? Because in each type of those situations, different people is starring some of them, divided in two groups: citizens and the state. For example, the citizens are related to the ideological and, part of the economic and society problems, but in the two last problems they have the lower part of blame.

I consider that the state is the principal tool that can diminish and overcome this situation as possible. Because, in a list of political and economical problems, we can find the “bad distribution of sources and the power”, between the ethnics, according to Rodolfo Stavenhagen. The members of the government can take action in order to make a change and take into consideration all of the habitants (citizens) that live in their country… to think in all of them when they make a decision as possible to eradicated it.

It is very important that the state as the citizens having an attitude of respect and principally tolerance. I think that it is the key to face this important and transcendent problem, all of us may pay attention to that, because it affects too many people. It is incredible how too many people died in “the war of ethnics”. I don’t know why the people do not respect all of thoughts, all of customs… we have to learn that all of us are different. And we cannot pretend to force everybody in order that they be equal to us, because it is impossible.

I think that it id fine that the people feel identify with a special group, but in a pacific and tolerant way. We have to learn about the different ethnic groups instead of begin a war to them, for lack of respect and tolerance. Anybody should pretend to feel more than other people and less if the cost of it is the low self-esteem of the others. The tolerance is the way to live in peace and be happy with all.

Bibliography:
Stavenhagen, R. (w.d). Los conflictos étnicos y sus repercusiones en la sociedad internacional. Recovered of http://www.unesco.org/issi/rics_157/stavenhagenspa.html