Don't Just Stand There, Mayur Raniya.

"You can't keep people from smoking in their house, but you can ask them not to smoke in your house." , said Arnold Khan, professor of psychology at James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia. When i was reading this story "Don't Just Stand There" , the above sentence captured my mind and i felt like this is the step everybody should take before any conflicts happen and one can change the others mind before making any racial acts. To support my point, i would say that in the story, the person who was enjoying the party and was about to leave the party but got angry because of his colleague who made a joke on Jewish people. At that time, that person got very angry because he was jewish and everybody in his office was aware of that but he did not do anything to that person who made the joke. He was thinking if i will say something to this person or not, will not make any difference in his attitude so why bother? In my opinion, i would say that why should we sit quiet if someone is making fun of you and by doing that it will create many problems. Fro example, we won't say anything to that person and that pain will grow more and more if we come across diferent people in that same situation and by that time it may create some psychological problems and sometimes we do such kind of things like murder or take part in terrorist activities, etc. that we are not suppose to do but due to our social environment we lead to such things. So rather than falling in this kind of situation we should speak out loud by putting a strong message across and by doing so, it can change a person's behaviour and the more messages there are, the more likely a person is to change that behaviour .