Draft Script

Western character: hello, my name is Philip George Baxter and I live in west London. I am studying psychology at university and my hobbies include sports of all kind, mainly football, staying healthy with exercise, reading popular novels and of course socialising with my friends at the local pub.

Ever since I can remember my mother made me go to church when I was young, I didn’t want to then because I guess it was boring for me, but now that I’ve grown up I realized that my parents wanted me to go to church to raise me properly, and abide by certain rules that make us morally good. You could say that it was one long lesson to create a good person. Since I’ve grown older and wiser I’ve realised the context of which Christianity taught, and that it isn’t there to follow devoutly with no questions asked, but I realised that as long as you can call yourself a good person, no matter what your religion God will love you. This teaching has defiantly helped me understand the meaning of good, especially in such a multicultural society as London.
However all of this terrorism on the news and Muslim bombers does not help to make a good name for non western religions, stereotypes start being made and then muslins are thought of as radicalist bombers and strike fear into the population. I’m just an ordinary member of society, right now I just want to finish my studies at university, after get a well paying job, then I can consider about making and supporting a family, I’m sure the majority of Londoners my age want the same as me.


Eastern character: Walahi, my name is Mohammed son of Jaffa, as a child I was raised in Iraq but as I grew older my parents decided to move to England because my parents did not want me to be conscripted into the army for a few years after the age of 17, and also we had heard stories of how this new land was filled with opportunities with very few problems there was in Iraq
being raised in Iraq with very devout parents, I have grown a strong faith to my religion, I have learnt it helps to keep a person morally good and allows me to try to make myself a better person in preparation for my afterlife. However since I have moved here I have witnessed how much things are different, here in London there are very few strong believers compared to Iraq it’s almost like they don’t care about a divine power or they have more important stuff to worry about. And I hate how arrogant and intolerant these westerners are to other religions and cultures that isn’t their own.

I am in fact quite similar to the average westerner if you think about it really, we both strive to achieve religious enlightenment, both cultures do their best in terms of their education to provide a future of financial prosper, this can then continue to stay close to your family and even start making one of your own. Both people want to live in a social eudemonia and be happy.