ISU Blog Post #3 - Separitism

For this ISU blogpost, I chose to theme it around the social issue of separatism. Separatism is the advocacy or practice of separation of a certain group of people from a larger body on the basis of ethnicity, religion, or gender. This relates to my book because the Jewish people who were living in Germany during WW2 were separated from the non- Jews. They were forced to go to special Jew only schools and can only go to certain supermarkets.Anne Frank, the main character of my book also mentions that they were forced to wear special clothing to show that they were separate from the rest of the people. This picture is of a sign  that was posted in Germany during World War 2. It shows that the place was a Jew-restricted area. I believe that the idea of separatism is wrong and that everybody is equal. Creating the borders for the Jewish people only enraged them more and caused them to fight more. The Jew- restricted areas accomplished nothing as they made the Jews more tempted to enter them.