Many people all over the world have been discriminated because of who they are either by race, gender, religion or just simply by being different. People discriminate and attack other humans because they are afraid of what they don't know or understand. People who discriminate get stuck in a bubble of their own thinking. People in that bubble believe they are far more superior then what they are biased against. Prejudgment is permanently their only way of survival because people fear what they don't understand. Thus, with this fear, people will discriminate against others only see this hate, anger or fury towards people they are prejudices against. Then, being permanently blind of the world outside your comfort zone because you will always have a bias viewpoint about others you can't trust. Going through life you will not have the tools to get along with certain people because you let your emotions control your way of living. Subjective of individual or group that results in unfair treatment is forbidden if the purpose of life is to be equal to everyone who is human. Do we choose to treat people equally as were suppose to or are there morals humans are supposed to follow to help treat humans fair and not discriminate?
People want to feel safe with what they are used to on daily basis. They want to be able to express themselves without feeling attacked by others. I feel like people have the right to be who they want to be not have boundaries holding them back or abusing them in the work place, schools, sports or any group of people. People should be treated equally regardless of what their background is compared to others. People that discriminate don't have the right to yell at you more compared to others in the group to tell you that your worth nothing to a group. Screaming at frustration of what they lack knowledge, one of coaches when I played a sport would choose favorites of his own kind and dislike any other. I'm not kidding or making this up just to assume you, me and everyone will face discrimination regardless of their background.
He would comment about his race a lot during the years I played for him, he would say remarks like "There are my black girls" and "Go my black girls!" to the my team members and once during our team picture we had to take for our school he said "Let's take a black only picture because Obama got inaugurated back into office." Could you imagine that racism does still go on today without notice without a care in our public school systems? Most likely discrimination has already happened to all of us by this point in our lives. I would of found it more appropriate if instead of caring about that if your black why not stand side by side with whites and Mexicans. We should show that people don't let boundaries of race control your life or emotions. Showing he is above discriminatory remarks that degrade others people's values. My coach would make most of us want to quit playing because of his actions. I don't value playing a sport anymore because I feel that you can't give back to the community as much compared to having an education. As well I choose not to continue the cycle of discrimination because you can't win with hate and ignorance. Discrimination comes with boundaries that people are separated into categories that are labeling and hurtful to most people.
"BOUNDARIES" -Victoria Marvin
This art piece was created by myself I made for my Advance Placement Art course.
Discrimination of 'different types' of people can be learned through educational public school systems in the history classes, here are some examples:
Hitler's view for new master race of white and blue eyed humans. Hitler was totalitarianism ruler he expressed his viewpoints of what they should do to Jews because he felt they were to blamed for economic ruin after the German war. He later forced Jewish people to ghettos,wearing stars of David and because no one wanted to stand up for human rights they were comfortable with the blissful, oblivious, Nazi living style that the genocide of 6,000,000 Jews and discriminated humans died.
Stalin was worse though he killed about 20 million he killed in the purges and poor conditions in his horrendous network of labor camps. The dictator let them die from neglect which is large difference between ending a life fast which is the suffering before the death.
Slavery in America lasted for 400 years and after that their is is still discrimination between races.
Japanese imprisonment camps happen because Pearl Harbor and fear of American Japanese people were a threat to Americans they lost there way of living because of that discrimination.
We as humans should learn from our past that people should be treated equally without harm.
Anyone could learn how not to discriminate others from a young age by reading a elementary books Dr. Seuss especially Sneetches, how not to discriminate others for being different. This book was created to teach to children about the different groups of people being bias towards one another for not having a star on their belly. He wrote Sneetches to illustrate how different social groups of people didn't like one another in World War 2 because of prejudices.
Sneetches -Dr. Seuss
Humans are so more complex, that if maybe you looked back at my coach's life before he became the way he is today. Did someone break his innocence when he was younger then he brought up learning to hate the white man. I will never know because he choose to be in his bubble.
I don't like being who I am because of others? No one should be brought up in close minded world like that. I learned not to be closed minded to observe and understand human nature in society. I am learning how to help others not to be afraid of knowledge and to care about cultures they don't understand.
Thus, the question is what do we do about discrimination, how do we handle it, we could suffer through discrimination because we assume that its just part of human life that we have to get accustomed to or we could prevent discrimination in those systems we are part of in our daily lives.
A quote from Einstein.
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