tolerance
Batman and Robin tell kids prejudice hurts teamwork (1949 toon)
Hey, kids: Batman and Robin know that prejudice has no place in our country. We need teamwork!
Mas…Batman and Robin tell kids prejudice hurts teamwork (1949 toon)
Native American population almost back to pre-Columbian levels
Samuel W. Bennett’s GET DATA website features charts/graphs and infographics about current events, sports, news, culture, and history. We thought this log-scale graph of the native (in red, of course) and white population in the U.S. was fascinating, sad, and maybe, just maybe, encouraging.
His description:
After disease and war decimated the Native American population from an estimated pre-Columbian 5 million to a low of a few hundred thousand in the late 1800s, the American Native American population has recently approached the pre-Columbian population. The…figure shows that the population of American Native Americans from 1492 to present.
His chart that ranks Tolerance, Racism and Xenophobia in the United States shows we’re lots more tolerant than some other countries, but still have big-ass problems with gays, immigrants and “foreign languages,” not that this is news to us.
Mas…Native American population almost back to pre-Columbian levels
Can we all just get along? How about ‘CoExist’ bumper stickers? (video)
You know those “CoExist” bumper stickers with the various religious symbols? In this silent video shot at Mariachi Square in East Los, our hero Vincenzo questions “bumper sticker politics” and discovers the truth behind that over-hyped word.