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1) Central Argument:

One should not blame a community or a group of people for the faults of few individuals.

Akar Patel talks about how one should not blame a community or a group of people for the faults of few individuals in his article. I agree with this statement because; I have learnt from personal experience, from history and current situations that it’s wrong to judge a community by the actions of a few individuals.

When we were in middle school a few individuals broke the trust of the teachers and soon the teachers were giving the whole class a speech on trust. Soon it was understood by the students that, the act of a few students had caused a broken relation between all the students in grade seven. It was very un-fair for the teachers to assume that all the students of seventh grade were the same as the individuals. It was wrong for the teachers to start assuming that the entire student body of seventh grade would start breaking the trust of them. But this is not it we can learn from the holocaust how this theory is completely wrong.

The cause of the holocaust was due to anti-Semitism. This hate towards the Jewish people came because; the Europeans used to think dealing with money is a dirty job and the Europeans would naturally blame the Jews for stealing their money and being very greedy. This situation can be proved for some people but not the entire community. But the other Europeans were convinced everything was the fault of the Jews and Hitler just had bit of convincing to do next thing we know thousands of Jews are dead. This is one of the saddest moments in history. This is one of the reasons building up to the holocaust because many individual Europeans opted to blame the whole Jewish society. This got us no where therefore it is not correct to blame the whole society. It seems as if current situations are leading towards the same thing.

In my country the word “Muslim” or “Hindu” can start a war instantly. Muslims blame the Hindu’s to be terrorists and vice versa for the Hindu’s. This blame game has caused war in great cities such as Ahmadabad and small towns or villages like Bhadohi. The major blame game has caused death of Hindus and Muslims. Whenever a Hindu hears the word Muslim he calls them terrorist and same for the other. This thing got serious in the Mumbai blasts because the majority of the population is Hindu and it blamed the Muslim. Ever since that there has been unrest and it seems there is going to be another civil-war.

One thing that I have learned from all these situations is you should not blame the community for the actions of the individuals. If we stop doing all these things it will lead to peace and stability. Therefore we should not judge a community according to the society.