For this assignment, I am supposed to interview my friend or family member. I chose to interview my father on the topic on Prejudice and Discrimination.
After giving him a brief description on prejudice and discrimination, my father paused and thought for a moment before he started replying. He said " People who are prejudice or discriminate others do not have a broad view over issues. They can't access a situation objectively because they have wrong judgements and therefore treat others in a different manner." He also stated that people who discriminate and are prejudice towards others tend to do so as they classify people of different religions, race etc. "Also, apart from the more common religion and racial discrimination, discrimination also happens all around us, this includes discriminating people who have a bad reputation, are weak in some ways and discrimination of other schools." He then further elaborated that these actions might cause great problems that includes wars, racial riots or terrorist attacks.
I then asked him how could things improve. He said that the government should educate the people, not only students, on the issue on prejudice and discrimination. The government has to create awareness and warn the people of the consequences if certain actions were to be carried out. "We should all learn to be more sensitive."
In the news, we also see similar problems occurring. One example in our society is where one pastor hurled negative comments at certain religions. "Well, apart from this, I feel that platforms like facebook have its negative side in terms of prejudice and discrimination. Occasionally, some might be unaware of their actions and write hurtful comments on similar platforms, misusing their freedom of speech." As these platforms have not much people to govern, people might accidentally wrongly use their authority and state negative comments about others.
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