“Prejudice is a disease we can never get rid of”. Discuss.

Yes, I agree that prejudice is indeed a disease we can never get rid of. According to dictionary.com, prejudice is ‘an unfavorable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or without knowledge, thought, or reason’. A disease, in this context, is something that is unpleasant and long-lasting. There are a many ways in which prejudice occurs. It can exist based on differences in races, sexes, nationalities, groups, religious affiliations, church affiliations, educational levels, and so on. For a person’s judgments to be true, it should not be based on "nothing." If one person decides that another is doing something wrong or suspicious, it should be because of his respective actions rather than because of simply dressing a certain way, for example. However, is this always possible for all to follow?

A quote on prejudice (by Edward Roscoe Murrow, 31 December 1955) says that “Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.” I totally agree with this since I also believe that prejudice is not something that we can totally destroy. For example, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and Abraham Lincoln fought against the prejudice of black people by the whites in America. However, studies have shown that prejudice of the blacks still exist today, even though to a much smaller extent.

References:
http://www.dictionary.com
http://www.pursuingthetruth.org/sermons/files/prejudice.htm
http://www.quotegarden.com/prejudice.html

“YouTube has no ethics, it's been created for the sole purpose of entertainment and money.” Do you agree?

Yes, I agree that YouTube has no ethics and that it has been created for the sole purpose of entertainment and money. YouTube, a website created in 2005, offers thousands of videos, ranging from funny clips to movies to television shows. Much controversy arises when people consider the role YouTube play and would play in their everyday lives. This is due to lawsuits and copyright issues. For example, according to an article dated March 16, 2007 in the newsweek magazine, “many YouTube clips consist of copyrighted material owned by established companies like Viacom”.

YouTube today is clearly an entrepreneur success, serving over 100 million videos and receiving about 65,000 video uploads each day. According to Alexa which is an online site that provides statistics of web traffic, YouTube is ranked the 10th most popular website, which obviously shows that it serves as a major entertainment medium to attract people worldwide. However, the fact that YouTube has no ethics is proved by the “Thailand blocks access to YouTube” on BBC news. YouTube contained a video showing “graffiti over the king's face” which was offensive to the Thais. Thus, this has caused the site to be banned in Thailand. YouTube’s refusal to remove the film showed that the managers of YouTube does not care about the morals behind the videos or the unrest caused by them, but only care about the profits they can achieve.

References:
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~nngai/index.htm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17653832/site/newsweek/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6528303.stm