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Name Institution Instructor Course Date “The Refugee Crisis Isn’t About Refugees. It’s about Us” Weiwei’s article explains why the global refugee situation is not about refugees, but about everyone. The growing number of refugees globally is an emergency and requires collective interventions from all countries. Weiwei was born in 1957 when the Chinese government sent more than 300,000 intellectuals who criticized the communist government into labor camps. This decision led to the creation of refugee camps because people were afraid of going against the government’s command. These camps subject people to inhumane living conditions. The government banished Weiwei’s family from Beijing to the country’s most remote area in 1958 because his father was a renowned poet and criticized the government. Innocent children and adults who did not understand the political issues were victims of this collective victimization of people criticizing the government. The following year, the government forced Weiwei’s father to criticize himself in public and sentenced him to a work camp where he did hard labor. The lifestyle in the amps introduced Weiwei into the lifestyle of refugees, which is against human rights due to suffering and lack of dignity for human life. Weiwei’s youth entailed suffering, inhumane treatment from society, poor living conditions, and assaults aimed at crushing the spirit influenced by his father’s beliefs about the communist government. His father did not have formal employment or a market to sell his poetry because the government wanted to punish him. The living conditions in the camp show how a government violates human rights to achieve the selfish goal of silencing its critics. Weiwei documented the global refugee condition in the film Human Flow and used his background to explain why he has a strong connection with these unfortunate people. The film shows the living conditions violated human rights and th...