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Table of Contents Prejudice against Another Prejudice enforcing Alteration Prejudice as a result of Dislike Prejudice engendering paranoia Prejudice as delusional Prejudice is a term that has been associated with the ‘mischief of irrationality’ because it is a prejudgement or an opinion about something or someone that has no foundation in real life or makes any sense. Such prejudice could be harmful or hurtful to a thing or an individual who is prejudiced against it. It may not be immediate or direct, but it is the beginning of a negative association narrative about that thing or individual. Therefore, prejudice should always be viewed with consternation and dealt with before it settles as normal behaviour or way of life. Prejudice against Another When you are prejudiced against something or someone, you are at the same time, indirectly prejudiced by that thing or individual. It is like a reflection in a mirror. When you look in a mirror, you get exactly a copy of yourself staring ...

Table of Contents Leaves A Butterfly Cherry Flowers Orphan Sparrow Yoshiharu Katoh is a well-known figure throughout his native Japan, especially for his artwork and exhibitions. He is a master of the medium of fine porcelain and a wide range of Japanese styles of painting, from traditional inks to watercolors on silk. As a result, he has received several awards, such as the Porcelain Design Competition at Seto, the Gold Prize at the Nagoya Design Competition, and the President's Prize at the Seto Design Competition. In his poetic vision, Yoshiharu aimed to introduce Japanese porcelain to the West through his collections of plates, which reveal different insights into life, beauty, nature, and philosophy that engineered the Japanese to create haiku poems hundreds of years ago. Below are a few of those pieces of porcelain with their different referents to Japanese culture. Leaves 'Leaves' is a fine porcelain plate by Yoshiharu for collectors in Western society. It was ...

Table of Contents Cry, the Beloved Country Too Late the Phalarope Ah, but Your Land is Beautiful Alan Stewart Paton was born on January 11, 1903, in Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa. He was married to Dorrie Francis Lusted from 1928-1967. He attended the University of Natal and Maritzburg College. Alan visited Norway and developed his ideas about his first novel Cry, the Beloved Country which was completed while in San Francisco in 1946. His debut novel, Cry, the Beloved Country was published in 1948 and became famous as a result of that. Cry, the Beloved Country tells a story of racial injustice and profiling in the then apartheid South Africa. The novel later became the Liberal Party’s manifesto in 1953 of which Alan was a founding vice president. The party fought against the apartheid laws legislated by the National Party government. In 1949 Alan Paton received Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards.   Alan’s first novel, Cry, the Beloved Country , his second, Too Late the P...

Table of Contents Huan’s Job Hunts Achieving Equal Opportunity in a non-equal opportunity contest Blind Recruitment – Bolstering Equality Equal opportunity has become a buzzphrase in this era where equality, diversity, and inclusion heralded almost every media post, employment policy, and government policy. This notwithstanding, equal opportunity has its limitations; there are some factors that the principle behind equal opportunity cannot change. I will begin with a student's job hunt nightmare.  Huan’s Job Hunts Huan is a Chinese, who for her postgraduate studies at one of the prestigious universities in London. She read Graphics Design and Illustration in her first degree. She had 10 years of work experience in China before enrolling for her Masters in the UK. She completed her master’s with an excellent result, notwithstanding her struggles with the communicative English language. Of course, she had improved her writing, speaking, reading, and listening skills in the English ...

I was reading the famous play known as Lysistrata by Aristophanes when my friend appeared on a WhatsApp call. Her hair was unkempt.             ‘What happened to your hair?’ I inquired.             ‘I’m like Baba Yaga.’ She spoke.             ‘Who’s Baba Yaga?’ I asked. Then, she began to tell me the legend of this Slavic folklore. According to her, Baba Yaga is considered a superhuman creature with many attributes, of course ensconced by humans. Baba relishes the human adulations of her power and enigma. Baba Yaga has other three sisters who are also called Baba Yaga. In appearance, she appears misshapen and has bony legs and a nose that sticks out. She could be seen accessorized with a mortar and a pestle. She separated herself from humans and dwelled in the deep forest in a hut that stood on chicken legs. Being a puzzle t...

Table of Contents Fowls and Cockroaches Analogy  Thrasymachus on Justice Scapegoating of Justice Fairness and Impartiality Imagined Justice Implied Justice Conclusion I will begin this writing with an expression: ‘A cockroach cannot be innocent in the gatherings of fowls.’ Is this a ‘matter of fact’ or a ‘matter of statement?’ From experience, cockroaches are insects while fowls are birds and as such, the latter appear as predators of the former. Fowls can have cockroaches as food. The cockroaches before fowls are convicted, condemned, and eaten as food. That’s the way nature has planned it. If the fowls can talk, they will argue that it is justifiable to feed on cockroaches. But for cockroaches, it is not fair that they are condemned as food for fowls. No matter what they do, their innocence always turns out with a guilty verdict. For cockroaches, there is no justice. The expression above can also be a ‘matter of statement’ since it is an empirical declaration. You can either agre...

Table of Contents Diversity Society Nation Country Exclusivity   and Inclusivity Similarity in Difference In this writing, the aim is to examine the concepts or theories that describe the terms diversity or inclusion; and to freely discuss both terms as would any observer in any  society . Why? Because diversity is in every  nation  and  country . You can see that I have mentioned three terms that describe the ‘different aggregate of people living together’. They are ‘society’, ‘nation’, and ‘country’. These terms may seem synonymous; however, they differ in meaning. Their differences will help in understanding the objective of this writing. Just a warning. I do not claim to be a sociologist, ethnologist, or political scientist. I am writing as a free street expounder. As part of this exercise, these terms: society, nation, and country will be defined, and the definitions will help in the elaboration of the claim that: ‘diversity is intrinsically a given while i...