IS there something about a nations people, histrionics or psychie which can allow this to happen? How could drafted soldiers behave with such evilness? This question has come about from watching a movie called The Pianist last night where the jews were treated worse than animals. Id like to visit Aushwitz but I want to go knowing as much as i can about the facts to give these people the honour they deserve.
2006-09-26 23:51:51 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Please none of this America rubbish. They may be powerfull and act like world police but they do stand for democracy fundamentally and for moraility. Please think a bit before you answer. thanks.
2006-09-26 23:56:18 · update #1
and also please no one word answers. please explain your opinion! thanks
2006-09-26 23:56:49 · update #2
I also have lived in the states. No way are all the population fat and thick - thats called a stereotype - Do all English people wear Bowler Hats and speak the queens english - No of course not. Please dont generalise.
2006-09-27 00:00:21 · update #3
Its the sickness in the minds of the footsoldiers carrying out ethnic cleansing that i CANNOT understand. Did they not have families? It it emerging nations that are affected with this type of problem? Nations who want more?
2006-09-27 00:05:38 · update #4
I think it could and it will if were not careful.
2006-09-26 23:59:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes it could if the conditions were right - e.g. the society feels threatened and/or bears a grudge against an 'outgroup,' the political process is corrupted, a malign charismatic leader whips up the feelings of resentment, fear, etc., maybe stages a few events to restore national prestige ... Bush's America is going that way, and it happened in Rwanda, Bosnia, Afghanistan under the Taliban, etc.
There are some countervailing pressures - society is more open, nobody can claim back the internet even though they can try, good people make programmes like The West Wing and Good Night and Good Luck.
Unfortunately the tendency to group-induced evilness is within almost all of us and wasn't/isn't confined to Nazi Germany. Look up Stanley Milgram's famous experiment on Obedience to Authority - a quick Google will take you there - and look also at the Kitty Genovese case, in which people walked by while a woman in New York was being raped and murdered.
By the way, if this film is the first time you've encountered the Holocaust, may I recommend you view Schindler's List - the classic film - and if you want to dig a little deeper try to get hold of the film made about the 1936 Olympics called Triumph Of The Will.
Also - you might spend half an hour looking through this site (Answers) and note how many people write questions that seem to come from genuine distress/despair and are answered by very short and judgemental comments. It's not far away from every one of us.
2006-09-27 00:07:51 · answer #2 · answered by mrsgavanrossem 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes it could and probably will as well! If you look back in history, Germany was going through a bad time and Hitler came at the best time for the nazi (Worse time for anyone and everyone else). People were disenchanted with their conditions, bit like they are in many places now! Hitler promised them a strong united Gemany and they believed him! All you need are the conditions pre existing in many european countries these days! Take Ireland where so many people moved in from eastern Europe, Africa you name it! Some people feel very angry about it, want to see them all go and they will not simply because their children are born in Ireland thus ... Irish. Hence racism, reports that 'they're all bad i tell you' etc. All you need is someone to promise Ireland that these people will be made to go and they'll vote for him! The rest just follows naturally because dictators know how to inflame passions! Thus ... right conditions, charismatic dictator and watch this space. You know it makes me sad because, an insult to those who died in concentration camps. The lesson we should never forget? Forgotten too long ago.
2006-09-27 00:02:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Not by a long shot, but Fascism which is a part of Nazism is already well on it's way starting from extreme Islamic fundamentalism who wants to impose Islamic laws and burn everything related to other faith or religion. The Taliban was a good example of it and other Islamic nations are racing to it. There are a lot of people who are in denial about this, but I won’t be surprise someday when the enemy starts knocking on the gate.
2006-09-27 00:04:51 · answer #4 · answered by Kurt 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, you need a large uneducated, misinformed, complacent and easily swayed populace and it is quite easy once there is some economic crisis or a perceived external or internal threat to drum up support for a totalitarian state. It looks more than likely that it will happen in countries like the UK or the USA and perhaps in Western Europe. Perhaps we will see Muslim ghettos set up to protect ourselves from terrorism and then organise some form of repatriation camps. It would be easy to drum up hatred in the media against groups of people if they emphasise and concentrate on all the negative rather than the positive stories that may occur without even needing to make something up. You need to pander to a people's desire to be secure and make them feel insecure by creating a sense of insecurity and then bolster the people in some form of common banner like patriotism and you will get the desired effect. What is required is some economic crisis caused by a loss of oil supply and a spiraling oil price or a massive ecological disaster causing mass migration. The rot is already happening due to a lack of discourse and criticism in the press of the regimes in power, a perception that the press is a left wing conspiracy against the people if they show balance, greater control and restraint of the populace through supposed measures to make them feel secure with most people being complicit and acquiescing to greater control and a loss of freedom for security, a sense that there is some great global enemy, allowing routine torture and detention without access to free trials as well as restriction on habeas corpus, presumption of innocence and all the fundamental rights that peoples have acquired over centuries of fight will be worn away and it measure of whether this is happening will be the fact that people will fight to give away these rights in the mistaken belief that it will bring them freedom and security. Then the populace will allow peace and freedom walls to be constructed around certain areas to restrict the movement of Muslims and other undesirables. Dissenters will first disappear, then maybe there will be show trials before being shot, then eventually any pretence will be gone and people will be routinely shot on the streets. Then the people will start informing on dissenters, children will tell on their parents, parents on their siblings and such an eventuality will happen again and if you look around you it is already happening. The problem with history is that people are cursed to make the same mistakes over and over and over again as most people are too complacent to make a stand and are being led like sheep to repeat the sins of their fathers.
2006-09-27 00:31:16 · answer #5 · answered by albert_rossie 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It already is. The only problem is that it's happening through economic warfare--i.e., tricking countries into taking out gargantuan loans in exchange for industrial advancements and then lambasting them with ultimatums designed to benefit the already very rich whenever those countries default on their loans, which happens far more often than not (Saudi Arabia was an exception). This kind of economic warfare, propagated by corporations such as Halliburton and governments such as that of the U.S., results in the deaths of hundreds of thousands world-wide every year via starvation, illness, pollution, etc. Simply put, the rich get rich while the poor get sick. The United States' economic approach to warfare has already killed more people around the world since the 1960's than Hitler's thugs killed Jews during WWII.
2006-09-27 00:10:39 · answer #6 · answered by v/s/s/v 1 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Unfortunately yes, it must be something in the genes, They have no sense of humour either. Fascism is rearing its ugly head there again in the shape of skin-heads that are anti foriener. I do not say all Germans are that way but then they werern't in world war two.. What can be done other than is being done?
2006-09-27 00:02:46 · answer #7 · answered by jimmyfish 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
pontificate and prepare tolerance for all religions, races, genders, sexual orientations, handicaps/disabilities, and such. The Jewish were no longer the merely ones slaughtered. attractiveness of others' alterations can save this from happening back, although I doubt it turns into broadly practiced any time quickly. human beings are stupid and do not realize what may carry peace of their circle will carry turmoil in others. we opt to locate some strategies that artwork.
2016-12-02 04:00:29 · answer #8 · answered by policastro 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes of course it could happen, america is already well on its way, ie, making war to draw peoples attention away from probs at home, also they have mad bloke it charge
hay, i lived in the the states, i think i know what they are like, and as an aside, they also think they are the perfect humans, big, fat, loud, and mostly rather thick, oh and they are rude. and they dont stand for anything, they are too damn lazy
2006-09-26 23:54:29 · answer #9 · answered by darren p 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
it can happen again and i believe it will. i think saddam hassain was trying the same sort of thing when he was in power. if ur leader is bullying enough and uses violence to make sure u do as ur told then ppl will do woteva u tell them just to stay alive.
2006-09-27 00:27:03 · answer #10 · answered by gin 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
yes
2006-09-26 23:56:04 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋