In recent years, it has become a default expectation that certain communities, and Muslims in particular, apologize for and formally distance themselves from matters that occur in other parts of the world – especially acts of terrorism. The consequence is that certain groups and individuals are constantly associated with terrible events they have nothing to do with. This mechanism \u2013 also known as \u201cguilt by association\u201d or the imposition of \u201ccollective guilt\u201d \u2013 has become normalized. Rather than bringing people together, it causes segregation.<\/p>\n
The idea was sparked to use a short educational film that reveals how children handle these kinds of accusations, prejudices and suspicions. What happens is that their self-esteem, self-image and self-confidence is damaged. You see, for example, how rapidly a young boy who wants to become a superhero can be talked into seeing himself as a villain. This is\u00a0what is happening at a macro level, where we have been talking certain communities into feelings of collective guilt for years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In recent years, it has become a default expectation that certain communities, and Muslims in particular, apologize for and formally distance themselves from matters that occur in other parts of the world – especially acts of terrorism. The consequence is that certain groups and individuals are constantly associated with terrible events they have nothing to do with. This mechanism \u2013 also known as \u201cguilt by association\u201d or the imposition of \u201ccollective guilt\u201d \u2013 has become normalized. Rather than bringing people together, it causes segregation. The idea was sparked to use a short educational film that reveals how children handle these kinds of accusations, prejudices and suspicions. What happens is that their self-esteem, self-image and self-confidence is damaged. You see, for example, how rapidly a young boy who wants to become a superhero can be talked into seeing himself as a villain. This is\u00a0what is happening at a macro level, where we have been talking certain communities into feelings of collective guilt for years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[181,170],"class_list":["post-670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia-en","tag-children","tag-videos-en"],"yoast_head":"\n