prejudice is a disease we can never get rid of

according to http://www.thefreedictionary.com/disease disease is defined as : 'condition or tendency, as of society, regarded as abnormal and harmful' while prejudice is 'Detriment or injury caused to a person by the preconceived, unfavorable conviction of another or others'with prejudice being 'detriment caused by preconceived conviction' it certainly classify it as a 'harmful' disease of the society.i believe that prejudice is a disease that can never be gotten rid of and will forever stays with mankind. Throughout the history, Mankind has been plagued by many fightings like the ancient Crusades, World War 2 that affected the world and recent Iraq conflict. Most of these have something in common, that is they were started by people with prejudice against each other.14th century Byzantine emperor Manuel II Paleologus derided Islam, saying 'Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.', believing that Muslims are violent. World War 2 is partially started as Nazis believed that other races are inferior and wanted to rule over them. Conflicts in Iraq is continuing to this day as Sunnis and Shi'ites believed that they will be oppressed by the other party should they take over the leadership position. These are just some example of conflicts caused by prejudices.Thus as seen from the example, prejudice is a ancient problem that have troubled the world till today and the root of it lies in nearly everyone. Everyone on Earth, past, present and future is unique and have different ideas, being exposed to a variety of ideologies, cultures and experiences. Being different, it is not possible for someone to fully understand someone else, thus we will assume some ideas about each other, it simply not possible to wait to know someone adequately before doing something.These assumptions are the predecessor to prejudices. Through certain experience we had, we associate these with people. Some are positive while others may be negative. Prejudices are negative preconceived impression we had and we may spread such ideas to others around us as shown in Behind the Sunni-Shi'ite Divide article by Time.With bad impression of people, its not difficult to have misunderstanding and this just worsened the impression we had. Sunni may believed that the hanging of Saddam is deliberately scheduled to coincide with their holy day whereas the reason may just be the current government of Iraq wanted to boost morale of their people, this leads to the belief that Shi'ite will oppressed them.Therefore prejudice are deeply rooted in the world as people are lazy to find out more about others and have misunderstanding. Some people may argue that misunderstanding can be solved over time and prejudice can be exterminated. Citing examples like Germany had repented and apologies for the war, revising their view of other races, they claimed that prejudice can be vanquished from the world given time and efforts.However, i beg to differ. Although Germany had repented, the Holocaust is still generating prejudice in other parts of the world. Some people like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,current president of the Islamic Republic of Iran, is convinced that Holocaust is exaggerated as a plot by some people against Iran. This highlighted the ability of events in the past to cause more prejudices even when it has been resolved.Thus, i do not believe that prejudice can ever be eradicated because as old misunderstanding is resolved, new misunderstanding with arise, without a fundamental change in the way we think, we will continue to have negative preconceived convictions.

seperate topic newspaper review

(argh!!...haiz...) i found several very nice interesting articles closely related to gp topics but unfortunately i do not need to do reviews, only find words and their meaning to improve my English. What a waste of good articles. One is about organ donation, another about internet influence, through years of experience, i can say that such articles do not come by often, they are seasonal. It may appear that these articles is very common but that is simply due to the recent events that happened, regarding internet influence, this rarely come outside of election period in other countries and elections in internet-savvy countries do not come by frequently do they?
if doing the dict-ionary thing is the point, there is always a article on Saturday or Sunday, i cant remember which that the author will define certain words that have been appearing often in the news like 'governance' in last week article concerning with the ministers' pay
i personally do not like the article but still it is interesting sometimes like 'politicians' used to mean schemer, crafty and cunning individuals
how, ironic
its seems that i have to find other mundane articles for words, but that means EXTRA WORK!!! and i do not like to do extra work. (who does?)(as you can see, they are extra, redundant, unnecessary)

youtube blog

i am in the aj library right now and its raining, and that has nothing to do with the post.
i feel a need to mention that the articles attached to the questions are very long, though i still finished reading it!
regarding the 2 questions given as gp topic, i didnt like either but the first one comes closest to what i wanted to blog about, so first question it is
“YouTube has no ethics, it's been created for the sole purpose of entertainment and money.” Do you agree?
by the way, i may do the second question too as youtube is a great role model to starting up a business later.
i did my research as the articles reminds me of what i had read in wikipedia regarding Thepiratebay but unfortunately the school computers blocked my access to the website http://thepiratebay.org/ with the following reason:
Forbidden.
You were denied access because:
Access denied by BlueCoat WebFilter content category. The requested URL belongs to the following category: Criminal Skills
(woah, criminal skills, i think i shall try to visit at home, maybe through a proxy server)
anyway, the reason i want to go to this website is that there is an interesting if not cheeky letter reply by the piratebay to the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)
the content is more or less about the piratebay denying all responsibility to monitor the contents of the bittorrent they provided access to regardless of whether the contents are copyrighted on the argument that they are merely the middleman, just providing access to the files and not actually hosting it. they however still will comply with MPAA demand to remove certain materials that are copyrighted. this effectively means that they wanted MPAA to sift through the millions of files provided access to by the piratebay which MPAA argued is impossible, which this reason is exactly what piratebay used to counter back. so it goes on arguing who should have responsibility to monitor the contents. MPAA says its piratebay who caused this problem at first while piratebay says the only one who have problems with this is MPAA.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Association_of_America
so this incident is similiar to Viacom and Google dispute (by the way, piratebay seems to have lost, so things arent looking good for Google based on this case-study)
linking back to the question, the ethics in question would be whether Youtube should defend the copyright law and remove copyrighted materials in its servers completely instead of ignoring the law and earn revenue from the visiting of copyrighted materials by millions of users, in turn costing the actors, producers and people associated with the show industry their revenue.
i do not agree that Youtube is an unethical business as can be seen by how active Youtube remove contents like child pornography.
Youtube is mostly police by its users and a small part by the employees due to the sheer number of videos contained within their servers, it is near impossible for their employees to monitor the contents by themselves
-to be continued (i am tired and hungry, i shall continue at home)
well, i am back, had tom yam instant noodle just now, spicy.
may i appeal to whoever bothered to read this blog to post comments, especially teachers. (just a 'hi, nice blog','i like the way you type this, uniquely me style' or 'this is a fabulous post' only compliments are accepted, sarcasm shall be deleted
Youtube is quite different from most other businesses as they uses a 'free labour' phenonmen that is people will do things for good of something if they like it. In this case, they like Youtube and will help to maintain the integerity of Youtube by helping to flag offensive or unsuitable content to be removed. However, sad to say, people like free stuff, thats why they visit Youtube as its free to view, they would not dislike copyrighted contents posted free, thus only certain individuals like copyright activist or a absolute moral uprightist would be flagging the illegal copyrighted contents.
With the drastic decrease in free labour to remove copyrighted contents, Youtube cannot react fast and remove such contents faster then they are put up, thus this explains the persistence of the videos on Youtube. However, Youtube have been trying hard to remove the illegal contents as seen in the sudden disappearance of many videos recently. Therefore, it is not due to lack of policing, defending copyright laws on part of Youtube that causes copyrighted materials to remain within public access, rather it is due to the format of Youtube that have open access to users that makes it near impossible to fully comply by copyright laws, thus Youtube is not without ethics but its hard to uphold the ethics in its totality.

busy busy maybe not

i seems busy these few days but i am not sure whether i really am
highly inefficient and unproductive, i need to change, perhaps i start with this blog url
i am not sure whether i am supposed to blog about a particular topic as i cant seems to find the document that my friend said should be there
i forgot what i wanted to say
yes, i remembered, the gp is very different from what i thought, extremely difficult, drastic change from English in secondary school, the change is unbelievable, the passage is almost incomprehensible, and how am i going to paraphrase the sentenses if the writer already used a wide range of vocabulary, hardly used the same word twice, all the synonyms seems used up
little wonder why everyone said gp is tough, its worlds apart from what we had before, someone seriously need to upped the standard of the English paper in secondary school
i believe i can handle it, just give me time to get used to

be warned

thinking of a title for this post, i wanted to put 'o no!' as the title, but 'o no' isnt a proper sentence, that isnt good for my English
anyway, i am going to say about the target audience of this blog, firstly, my target audience dont like my previous URL so i changed it, if you realized (...)
a point to note for my target audience, please post a comment or a tag if i bothered to add a tag box in the future
please, the comments must be positive (joking)
i dont think i can complete the newspaper report in time(...)