The future has been pictured to be a world full of futuristic technologies, an easier life and the ability to travel to places we could never imagine. But people always forgets the most important thing for a great future that is world peace. Without peace and unity between everyone in the world, it is hard to create a future that we wanted.
From the scenarios seen around the world, people are always fighting each other in different ways and reasons. For example, the war between the North and South Korea that has never been resolved since after the World War II. The people of both republics has always wanted peace them as they expressed In many was such as in the 2003 B-Boy International Competition when their performance tell the story off how the two republic get separated and finally reunited as one. The disagreement also leads to all the men are forced to join the army at a certain age to fight in the war.
If we turn to the Europeans, we could witness the problem of racism being a big obstacle for their unity. People from other races rarely work and communicate with each other peacefully. The problem became serious when in 2011, a big riot occurred for five days in England after the death of Mark Duggan that caused a peaceful protest in Tottenham. But the peaceful protest became violent when large number of police officers arrived to disperse the demonstration.
On the thirteenth of May 1969, the capital city of Malaysia which is Kuala Lumpur has been declared `in the state of national emergency` when a Sino-Malay sectarian violence occurred. 196 people were killed in the incident, although journalist and other observers have stated much higher figures. Other reports at the time suggest over 2,000 were killed by rioters, police and Malaysian Army rangers, mainly in Kuala Lumpur. Even though they life in an independent country together, they turned against each other for racial reasons.
In South Africa, Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years for sabotage and other charges. He gone against Afrikaner-dominated National Party, which supported the apartheid policy of racial segregation. He led prominently in the ANC's 1952 Defiance Campaign and the 1955 Congress of the People, whose adoption of the Freedom Charter provided the fundamental basis of the anti-apartheid cause. While in jail, his reputation grew and he became widely known as the most significant black leader in South Africa. Mandela's fight for freedom has been an eye opener for the world.
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