Schüler:innen der 4. HAK-Klassen haben Poetry Slams zum Thema „Vorurteile gegenüber verschiedenen Kulturen“ geschrieben. Die besten Texte dürfen wir im Akademiestreet Journal veröffentlichen.
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Cultural Understanding – Helena Ognjanovic
They meet their soulmates early and marry them just a few years later. Together they look at Monets at Weekends and fall asleep to the sound of violins and classical music. They travel the world while wearing whatever they want and praying to their God.
Others get help on their quest for love and pray to a different God. They look at other artworks while listening to traditional music and wearing other lovely attire.
They are different from each other. They believe in different Gods, wear different clothes, cook different food, and listen to different music.
Because they are from different cultures.
What would happen to us if we listened to the same music, wore the same clothes, and ate the same food. We all would be the same and we would hold on to our norm till death did us a part… wouldn’t we?
We’d miss all the different music, clothes, art, movies, and food. We would see the same things over and over again until we would change something. Until we would make a difference. We’d create a painting in another style and write poems about other topics. Just as Van Gogh and Emily Dickinson have shown us, we think “the same” is boring. And we don’t want boring. We want exciting, eventful, marvellous. We want differences.
So, let’s stop fighting against our differences and start embracing our uniqueness.
Embrace the difference – Janina Petr
Day after day we pass people on the streets. Streets filled with people dressed in colourful clothings, a variety of hairstyles and head coverings. Speaking languages we might have never heard before. Listening to music that is unfamiliar to us. Smelling foods that we have never smelt before. Hearing about religions unrevealed to us.
All of this is possible because of our cultural differences. Differences which we should be proud of.
If it weren’t for them, we’d all be the same. Same old boring world. With its same old boring rules. There would be nothing to learn from each other. No way to evolve with each other. No exiting future to await…Good thing we’re all unique, right?
Day after day we pass people on the streets. Streets filled with people dressed in colourful clothings, a variety of hairstyles and head coverings. Speaking languages we might have never heard before. Listening to music that is unfamiliar to us. Smelling foods that we have never smelt before. Hearing about religions unrevealed to us.
All of this is possible because of our cultural differences. Differences which we should be proud of.
If it weren’t for them, we’d all be the same. Same old boring world. With its same old boring rules. There would be nothing to learn from each other. No way to evolve with each other. No exiting future to await…Good thing we’re all unique, right?
8 billion people living in this world. Yet no one is the same. From the moment we are born, we are different. Special. Individual. So why should we hide our differences and not celebrate them instead? Teach others about ourselves and learn from others. There is no need to feel ashamed for standing out and just being oneself.
Embrace the difference, live the difference, make a change and be different.
Discrimination in this generation – Leonie Pechek, Victoria Monihart, Ilayda Acer
All over the World there are different races,
different places
where we all come from
but we didn’t manage to live together and get along.
All we can do is rhyme
but in the world there is a lot of crime,
black people are afraid to go outside
and if there is fight it’s always them who are not right.
If a man with a big beard is walking past you, oh no he is a terrorist,
but actually he is a well paid scientist.
He sees the panic in your eyes.
But before you judge, please think twice.
You meet a Chinese
and you automatically hold stronger your dog’s leash
and you’re just joking
but for this person your jokes are provoking.
So all I wanna say is go outside and see the good qualities in people.
Don’t judge because of their looks or how they dress
because that is nothing that should impress.
Quit the bs – Yasmin Yazidi und Zoe Moser
What is the worth of a human being?
Some of us are not even seeing
that the world separates us.
We are not only talking about people like Elon Musk
but society does that as well
I think everybody can tell.
We try to pretend being gentle and inclusive
but in fact, that’s some real bulls***
Racism is still in our head and that is fact to get mad.
Day in, day out
racism is what society talks about.
But do we really care?
Some people among us do not even share anything with others
and that’s what a community really bothers.
We try to seal our eyes from the truth we could see
that’s a society’s member I don’t want to be.
Open up your eyes, open up your mind
you will see, it’s not just about being kind,
it is what life is about,
and that’s something we need to shout out loud.
We need to go all in so we could be able to win.
A community can never be perfect but still,
everybody is worth it
to have the same chances and rights
that is what causes fights
But we need to overcome this complication
to grow as a nation.
Everybody is worth the same
we cannot put the blame
on somebody being born different to a so-called “norm”
that needs to affect a real s*storm.
So put your hands up in the air
if you really want to live and act fair!
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