Discrimination in its spectrum

As a common practice of the human being, discrimination have been applied from the lowest to the highest level. It is not unknown that people tend to categorized other people, denning them from participate of any social practice or human right, just because of any prejudice. From age, caste, class, color, disability, genotype, height, hair, language, looks, mental type, ethnicity, rank, religion, size, species, weight; to sexuality, race or gender, we can find employed some discrimination. And this is not a joke or something not to worry about: because as serious as it is, it could lead even to the death of the victim. Here I focus on two types of discrimination that really bother me a lot: discrimination because of sexual orientation; and because of gender. It is not a surprise to find all spread in our society these two kinds of discrimination: they are totally alive. But let’s take a brief look on each one of them.

When talking about sexual orientation’s discrimination, we can say that it is unbearable the receiving of the different comments or actions coming from those people who think that homosexuality is a wrong practice. As it is said, maybe homosexuals will go to the hell, once they die. But actually, religions are not something that I get worried about, regardless of their strong influence in the society in order to eliminate or segregate those employers of the conduct. Religious people should expand their minds in order to accept homosexuality, otherwise they will also be segregated, from the homosexual side. But religion is not the only element to consider when talking about sexual orientation’s discrimination; the nationality of the person; the different health agencies; and in the different educational systems, discrimination is employed. For example, there are some nations that can’t accept it as a normal conduct, so they applies punishments to those who practice it. In Iran, Arabia Saudí, and Yemen in Asia; Mauritania, Sudán, andthe north regions of Nigeria and the south of Somalia in Africa, homosexualpractice is punished with the death penalty. On the other hand, there are some health agencies that employ discrimination because of the sexual orientation. For example the American RedCross practice it. I remember when I went to this agency, and because of my sexual orientation, I couldn’t donate any blood. Just because of my homosexuality! This was something really embarrassing at the moment, but now it is a factor that really inspire me to continue fighting, supporting our rights. But that’s not all, in educational systems, discrimination is also buzzing, and it is expressed as bulling. From elementary to secondary school, childrenand teenager tend to bully those victim of any “incapacity” as it could be consideredthe sexual orientation. So, overall, here we can see how sexual orientation’s discrimination cover huge areas of our society, as other kind of discrimination, as the one that state that black skin people are inferior than white people.

Woman has also a serious problem. They have been emarginated and considered inferior than men. Discrimination has taken place in this ambit, adjudicating some rolls to women and other to men. It is said that woman do not have the same capacity that men have; that women, because they are inferior than men, should stay at home, cooking, cleaning the house, managing baby issues, and washing the men’s clothes. On the other hand, the men are who have the power; who bring the money to the house; is considered the brain of the house. In other words, women belong to the private ambit, while men belong to the public one. This ideology is wrong, and clearly there’s discrimination on it. Women, because of their constant battle and sacrifice, now have some space in the society, but margination continue. For example, now we can found womanin politics rolls, when some years ago, they weren’t allowed. So, woman clearly are gaining their space in the society.

Finally, we can get notice that discrimination takes place in many different forms. Sometimes I ask myself: Why people continue practicing this conduct? Why do they feel so comfort employing it? Then the answer comes alone: it could be because of the ignorance they have about the issue; they feel as outsider of the field been discriminated, and because of that, these fields should not exist. Well, I really don’t know, but something what is really true, is that this could lead to a civil war. These wrong management of our differences could have fatal consequences. Not only to the victim of discrimination but also to those who employ it. I have to say that I will not be quite, meanwhile this practices continue.