On Saturday I woke up and read this piece of news. Once I finished, I really felt sorry for that eight year old child. Children can be very cruel and they don’t have any problem to go against that person who is different or has different ideas. I really think it is terrible that kind of behaviour, and I am sure parents are responsible because children of that age usually repeat what they listen at home or hear from their parents.
Poor girl! Espanyol supporters are used to
these type of things, but when you get to an age, it doesn’t affect you too
much. However, I imagine that for an eight year old girl it has to be really
terrible.
There are few things I would like to point out.
First of all, I think it will not be fair that we say that in Catalonia
Espanyol supporters live apartheid. Some of my best friends are FC Barcelona
supporters and I don’t have any problems with them. I have always been the only
perico supporter until I got to University and I didn’t have any problem.
It is true that Barcelona supporters are not
able to understand what we feel and some of the situations that we live are
totally unfair, but I do believe in respect. The good thing of being perico is
that you grow stronger and, in a way, you become special but I also think that
you can find stupid persons irrelevant which team they support.
What I really think that is disappointing and
terrible is the teacher’s reaction. “They are only kids”. How can a teacher say
that? He should address to all the class and explain that people are free to
support any team they want, that it doesn’t make you worst or better and he
should tell them that in life there are different opinions and feelings and all
of them are respectable.
In this case, we are talking about football,
but this is an example for many situations in life. I know that they are young;
however, we have to build a society where everybody respects the other. What
will these children think about someone gay? Or someone that doesn’t believe in
a independent Catalonia?
As I said I haven’t had any problem for being
an Espanyol supporter. It is something I am proud of and I always say when I talk
about football. However, I am worried because I think that many times the big
majorities forget that there are a lot of people that do not think alike and,
in this sense, parents and teachers have a very important rol because they have
to teach and explain that one of the best things in life is to find people who
have other feelings thoughts or views.
It is true that lately if you are not with the
majority you feel alone and IT shouldn’t be like that. In a world that is
getting more and more global, people should be more open minded and respect the
other. As you can read in the article, we have a lot of work to do.
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