One Piece Anime#Helps Teach Human Rights in High School

A teacher in an Osaka prohibitive school uses the One Piece anime to enlighten civil human rights in a way that connects with his students. Through the example of the half-reindeer character Ax, 46-year-old Akitoshi Maekawa demonstrates that those who have been ostracized by their outdoor appearances can grow positive by means of friends.

Maekawa began using One Piece in his "Global Civil Rights" class at Osaka's Kunijima Lofty Instruct in December of 2010, and his latest caste of second-year and third-year students began by the end of January. He formerly displays the medicinal fraud Hiluluk and Chopper by his classroom screen.

In Eiichiro Oda's original narrative, Cleaver was intuitive with a blue nose, and he worn to live bullied by additional reindeer. He next became half-human by consumption a mysterious Hito Hito Fruit, but humans still treated him comparable a beast and shot him. Hiluluk came to his abet, and the two bonded. Maekawa supposed, "Chopper was isolated on behalf of a prolonged period, nevertheless he's clever to become associates with Hiluluk, and accordingly he grows to recognize himself insufficiently by little."

His students, who had been learning about the South African apartheid and American civil civil rights movements, were flabbergasted when they earliest realized the connection with Chopper's situation. Subsequent to with Chopper to explain civil civil rights issues, Maekawa had his students write on the subject of what categorize of society Chopper represents in advanced institute. They famous his similarities with black people who face racial discrimination, inhabitants mandatory keen on a homeless lifestyle, handicapped nation, and victims of bullying.

Based taking place Oda's manga, the One Piece television anime premiered in Japan in 1999. Funimation is distributing the title in North America.