Answer the following questions after watching the following video. Answers may be short and to the point, no long paragraphs necessary for this assignment. Feel free to give longer responses for more substantive/personal questions toward the end.
1) What quote from Thomas Paine does the Rabbi share?
2) What commentary does he make about his friend’s views during the 2016 presidential election?
3) In our modern-day, what does the Rabbi believe that the human species worships nowadays? A funny commentary about future anthropologists.
4) Biologically, what kind of “animals” are humans? In terms of what is required in our daily lives to live a fulfilling life.
5) In what way can the future “you” strengthen yourselves? What three dimensions does he discuss?
6) What is the trouble with Google filters, Facebook friends, and narrowing our news sources? Where does this lead us mentally?
7) What are the benefits of reaching out and understanding people that are “not like us?”
8) In what ways did America create identity of national unity and common understanding of being American? How does immigration impact this belief system?
9) How did the Jewish people, over the last couple thousands years, retain their identity throughout all of their trials and tribulations? Is there merit in different cultures progressing their people’s identity, religion, and beliefs to their future generations, thereby strengthening their identity and strength within a heterogenous population like America?
10) Personal Commentary Question: Towards the end he discusses “We the People,” commenting on a collective identity and responsibility throughout the nation. This in turn allows for a stronger identity, allowing for more open acceptance of immigrants and people labeled/understood as “others.”
11)In light of recent years with national headlines on immigration at the border, anti-Asian rhetoric throughout America due to the Covid-19 pandemic, long-standing and continued Jewish prejudice and stereotypes, etc…how do you think the people collectively can come together in the United States to limit, or naively perhaps eventually eliminate, intolerance toward others? How can collectively as “We the People” combat hate, bigotry, and discrimination whebcire we see it, whether in-person/online/etc.?
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