Log #6

I was pretty upset about the lack of attendance of my partners. It made us pretty hard to discuss the book reading, make decision about what we're going to do next week and which page are we going to read.

I think Amir is indeed a coward asshole. In order to get his father's attention, he did not spare to sacrifice his playmate, which was fed by the same breast with him. How dare you sell the one that consider you as the most important person on the world just to get attention from your father? If you really want to, you have to convince him, not in the way which damages your playmate. You have to respect, learn to be brave. So far, I don't like him at all.

It's sad. And it makes me think of one of my childhood friend. He's and asshole, too! Back to when we were in elementary school, we would go to the nearest junior high school and play basketball. On day, he was in an argument with another kid. So I walked toward them and asked what happened. That asshole sold me right away telling the kid's the parents that it was me that stole his ball. I was very angry. If I wasn't educated well, I would have punched him on his face. When things finally came clean, I, of course, broke off the relationship between me and him immediately. It's such a pathetic thing that only selfish assholes will do.

So we talked about the ethnic issue mentioned in the book. We had a small conclusion that "Discrimination can be taught in school". Is discrimination good to the world? Louis CK said that "There's nothing you can't achieve when you don't give a fuck about particular people." Sadly, it's somehow true. We wear shirts that made by child labors and take medicines that costs thousands of cheap labors. Most of them are minorities. From those examples we can see discrimination somehow made the world better, but what would happen if all of them are people who loves to make shirts and medicines instead of minorities that have to obey the employers?

I think it's very unnecessary to be a racist. Or, a man who discriminates. The relationship in the book is very complicated. Amir wants Baba to love only him, but Baba grew up with Ali---- Hassan's father----, he consider Ali is his brother, so he treats Amir and Hassan the same. And that's the point which make Amir upset. Things get worse when they grew up.

At about the end of this week's assignment, the main characters got to America, and that's a small end of the section about the characters' life in Afghanistan. What would happen later? Will they find better environment to live? Or will they be discriminated in the new environment? That is the question.