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My So Called Enemy By Ursula K. Le Guin: Video Analysis

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Since the basically the beginning of time, society has not been very accepting. In society, if you are not like everyone else then you will not fit in with the rest of the world. In many books and articles, there are people who are left out of activities or are not accepted by others around them. A few of these stories and articles are a story about a family of wolves, but the wife’s husband isn’t quite the same as everyone else called “The Wife’s Story”, a video about a group of girls whose cultures don’t get along called “My so Called Enemy”, and an article about a man burning a flag called “Texas v. Johnson Majority Opinion”. All of these articles have some sort of message about acceptance in them.
“The Wife’s Story” by Ursula K. Le Guin, …show more content…

This video talks about a total of six girls from different cultures trying to get to know each other and accept one another. In the video, two girls are typing messages back and forth on social media to each other. The two girls, Gal and Rezan say, “GAL: how are u? RENZA: doomed (lol)” (Gossels 00:28-00:29). From this message, someone can tell that the two girls had gotten closer. Gal and Rezan had accepted each other into their lives and chose to become friends instead of hating one another like their culture tells them to do. A few more seconds into the video, Gal and Hanin are having a discussion with the group about why the Jews need to live in Israel. Gal says, “After understanding the Holocaust, can you understand why it’s important for Jews to be in Israel?” (Gossels 00:41-00:47). Hanin follows up with, “I am sorry for what happened. I know that you will not accept what I say. But I can’t understand to come from Europe and to kick people from their houses. I think there is a lot of empathetic places in the world. You could live there” (Gossels 00:48-01:03). In this conversation, Gal is trying to get Hanin to understand why her culture needs to live in Israel. Hanin thinks that Gal just wants to live there instead of her needing

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