The
discrimination in our society is an act very common, through our actions, words
and apathy we disqualify a guy, ethnic group or a community in particular. The
concepts like xenophobia, segregation, discrimination, etc., caused a lot of conflict
in the history, for example: The segregation in The United States of America,
the base for the Nazi's ideology, alleged supremacy between white over blacks
people, etc. But the discrimination is not just a racial issue, is more than
that, we can see other cases like religion, social class, preferences, and
other things that society of today fight for the mutual acceptance
.
Where does
it come the idea that white people are better than black people? Ones of my
theories is that in the Middle Ages, Catholics were the only ones those who
dominated everything and through their ideas and people's ignorance they could
control laws and different ideologies in that moment; in this period was where
the idea about the black with the sin and the white with purity comes, that is
why we associated the white with the good, purity, divine and superiority and
the black we associated with the sin, bad things and inferiority. Many times,
the reason of those discrimination are just collectives, I mean, we follow what
people say about some social group; the stereotypes plays an important role
when we discriminate, the stereotypes are like little mind's boxes and
they are made just to classify and organize in our head a group of people, and
we know due to their behaviors, preferences, social classes, etc.
It's amazing
how ideologies can move a huge crowd of people; Martin Luther King was able to
create worldwide awareness about what was happening to black people in The
United State, he was able to create a revolution never seen before, but in
other way we have Adolf Hitler, a man who left a mark in the universal history
of humanity , his ideology was based upon a complete discrimination against Jews,
disabled people and black people; he thought that white people were higher,
perfect and better than other kind of race. Perhaps today we don't see revolutionary
instances but discrimination has been a factor very common in everybody;
sometimes we can't accept other ways of thinking and if we want eradicate those
stereotypes, we have to change our mindset.
Here, some cases of discrimination:
You right! we follow all the stereotypes and and we are not able to change that aspect, maybe because is much easier to follow "the current" instead to think a little further.
ReplyDeleteWe all know that nowodays we ALL are always driscriminating, if anyone sais that thet dont discriminate it is false, I think We even discrimate people who discrimate, for example if someone is homophobic We discriminate that person, because don't think like We do, I think that the "discrimination" is something that We have in our brain, and it wil never change.
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