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Today I was seeing an Italian film called "CONCORRENZA SLEALE" it's about the Mussolini’s Italy, and describes how Jew people started to lose rights, started to being pointed in the street just because of the religion, whore forbidden to go to school, to teach, to practice medicine, and many other things. And these same film showed the different way of thinking of the rest, while some of them didn't understand why someone that has a different religion can't go to the same hospital, and receive the same assistance (and wore against it), others (mainly the ones that benefit with the situation) agreed with the measures of the Italian government. That film sounded to me, very current, because the same problems shown in the film are coming back in the present. In Portugal (my country) the people are becoming more and more racists, for example if some one is robbed by a black person, he immediately say he was robbed by a black, if he is robbed by a gipsy, he will say he was robbed by a gipsy, but if he is robbed by a white person, then he will say he was robbed by a thief, these may sound like a little thing but the truth is that these kind of behaviour is starting to discriminate all the people that have a different race (for example, if I’m in a room of 20 people and something is missing, if in that same room is a black person, then the first suspect will be him), and if these kind of behaviour doesn't change quickly then in a very near future we will have many people agreeing with measures that separate different races in different schools, different hospitals and eventually in different cities or even countries ( we have a very good example in the palestein/israel conflict) I know people that wouldn't be chocked if black people wore forbidden of going to school. (The History is starting to repeat) The other problem that the film focused was the problem of the lack of humanity in some people, these is, if something benefits a person, then it should be done (in the opinion of that person) even if it means that it harms somebody else (and even if that harm means death, although not directly, so the one that benefits can't be held responsible), these for me it's the total perversion of the society, and of the individual. I my self learned to pass thought people in need, for example in the underground, and don't even bother to look. It's probably a self-defence mechanism, but the truth is that I don't look. :( but at least I bother to think about it, and I’m willing to make changes in my behaviour, at least I'm unable to take advantage of someone (or I think I am), and in the end maybe I'm as guilty as the ones that point out people by there race, by there economical status, because in a way we all point.