Things I Hate
同志社国際高等学校

２年

中

野円

香

Things I hate. Well, there is enormous number of things that I hate to do,hate to be with, or hate to think of. Such as the person on a train who sits
right next to me where there is many empty seats. Or the moment when I
drop an eraser and nobody takes it for me. That is awkward. But what I hatethe most is, discrimination.
When you heard the word “discrimination”, you might have felt “thisspeech would be serious and boring”. When this word sticks to your mind innegative way, it becomes hard for me to tell any message. So today, I wouldyoutothinkabout“nothing”,

tonottodiscriminate

theword,“discrimination”.
When I was in Belgium about 10 years ago in local kindergarten, nobody
saw me discriminately. I was always crying going to the kindergarten becauseof the language barrier. But never is because of the racism. People in thekindergarten always handed tissues for me to wipe away the tears. Later mymother confessed me that she was very impressed by it. She has thought I
would be lonely because I am Asian. She has worried that children would notplay with a person who looks different from them. Children are always brutal.
She then realised that she did not need to worry about it. I have learnt thatwhen there is no stereotype, no discrimination would be occurred. We learn
inside and outside of the school and we eventually build up prejudices.
Sometimes people believe the silly stereotypes. For example some people don’t
like Germany because they believe that German politics are still following
Hitler’s idea after they learn Second World War. The people might just mix
up the present days and the past. But still, this is ridiculous. It can be said
that the more you learn, the more chance stereotypes would be built.
Second country that I lived was Australia. I then faced the racism. I havecommuted to the local high school with weird but warm hearted friends. I
enjoyed being there but there was people who don’t let Asian people inside of47

高校生―Ｉ部門

liketheir mental territory. Australia is a migrated country so there are number ofpeople who discriminate the outsiders. Fortunately I was not said any
backbiting. Or maybe I just didn’t notice it. It must have been the luckiest
thing I’ve had. However a group of Chinese girls used to be the target. This
group’s girls talk with each other in Chinese when each class is over so thismight be the reason why they became the one. I had several nice friends inthe group so every time I heard backbiting about them, my heart ached. Theytalk Chinese only after the class so I did not care too much. I understoodtheir feeling somehow because I could not speak any of English for a firstyear. I have always felt if I could only talk in Japanese and everyone gets
what I am saying. Japanese was the only thing I could rely on. The group’s
girls have got each other who are from the same country, so they might haverelied on each other. People who discriminated didn’t know our helplessness,
高校生―Ｉ部門

loneliness and depression being in the country where people speak what wedon’t understand. Everyone’s background should be respected.
Even I say all these, I sometimes see people with glasses of prejudices. “Tonot to discriminate” is our goal for future. However not everyone can seepeople without any stereotypes. So what we should do instead? It is an easyquestion. We should admit that we see people stereotypically. This nevermeans that we can discriminate people. Every time you see someone with theglasses of prejudice, you should recognise that you actually look at them inthat way. If you notice and regret by it, you would get less opportunity tolook people with the glasses next time. And eventually you would improveyourself and successfully you would take off the glasses. I hope the world isgoing to be a better place for me to reduce the things I hate.

48