Gender Discrimination In Social Groups

Gender discrimination in social groups

Introduction

For thousands of years, all civilizations on the planet had elements of discrimination. Obviously, modern society is no exception. Every time European colonizers occupied someone’s land, led to the formation of social groups and isolated peoples. Most extreme types of discrimination often become such horrible things as a genocide or slavery. In some countries, discrimination was not promulgated at the legislative level, while in other countries discrimination was legislated.

Together with these extreme forms of discrimination, human civilization also invented other relatively soft forms, which are often reflected in immigration laws, as well as in the deprivation of rights. We can often observe discrimination in hospitals and schools;Discrimination is often presented in the media and public opinions. Some ethnic groups suffer discrimination more frequently, throughout the history of the entire world. Such groups are the Jews and the Romani.

Developing

The meaning of discrimination is often related to another term, which is ‘disturbing’. In the Oxford dictionary, this term is explained as anxiety and anguish, as well as other bad mental states caused by injustice and irritation. Therefore, such a state is often caused by various types of discrimination, since it is nothing more than an unfair treatment of someone who belongs to a race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, etc.

In general, the reason for such an unfair treatment is prejudice.

Most people suffering from discrimination feel frustration and anger. It can often cause anger to people who caused such an unpleasant emotional state. However, there are many consequences of discrimination for both victims and victimizers, so in this essay, we decided to consider the common effects of discrimination.

There are relatively more familiar types of discrimination, such as gender -based discrimination, sexual orientation, race, disability or religion. All these are forms of direct discrimination. Another form of direct discrimination is sexual harassment. All these types of discrimination are direct actions against certain groups of people, based on prejudices or stereotypes. At the same time, there is also indirect discrimination, which is generally discussed not so broad and active. 

Indirect discrimination includes such situations, where neutral positions or actions cause discrimination effects. Together with these two main types of discrimination, we must mention institutional discrimination, which involves discriminatory practices, laws and procedures within a certain company, social institution or even country. Here we are talking about procedures that cause discriminatory consequences. A surprising example of institutional discrimination is South African apartheid.

Discrimination rarely causes a certain unique effect. In general, the effects of discrimination multiply and each effect leads to several new consequences. Discrimination is often related to things such as social distance. It is always easier for people to judge those who are not related to their social group. The further a group of people of the majority are, the easier it will be to discriminate against them.

When talking about the causes of discrimination, we must highlight something that often forms discriminatory behavior among adults. Discrimination can be learned. Most people who support discrimination were raised by parents who support the same ideas. Teachers can also form a discriminatory behavior of their students.

The media often support discriminatory processes, since every time we talk about discrimination without doing anything to stop it, we also give it a certain level of social legitimacy. Since contact between different groups does not help combat discrimination, modern society often pays attention to social institutions, and education, in particular. Of course, by implementing multicultural principles in education, we support diversity and weaken discrimination.

At the same time, immigration policies, special civil rights attention, as well as contracting quotes, form a solid base against discrimination. Another important thing is the relationships between individuals, since true love and friendship between people from different groups is the best way to kill discrimination from the beginning.

There are different political, psychological, social and economic effects of discrimination. Discrimination victims lose their self-confidence, they feel like strangers. Such effects are often stronger due to political and economic discrimination. Inequality, ignorance and prejudices cause many negative effects at many levels. Not only does it affect the peace of discrimination within a particular country, but also world peace.

This is a reason why many international organizations provide new instruments and laws, in order to stop discrimination worldwide. However, although such organizations introduce new incentives, these incentives are rarely more than just documents and agreements. Many countries ignore international instances or accept such incentives only on paper.

We can see the effects that discrimination causes in religion, race and other specific groups of people. In the US. UU., Racial discrimination remains a hot issue, due to a series of police illegal actions against black people. The populist rhetoric of conservative politicians pushes racists to express their hatred in public, promoting racism. There is also discrimination of aborigines in Australia, since their culture is quite different from European culture.

conclusion

The white majority do not understand the natives of Australia, which creates distance between social groups. Another common type of discrimination is religious discrimination. In the United States, this issue became a common issue for discussions after the introduction of Trump’s so -called Muslim prohibition. Islamic terrorists formed a common image of Muslims as terrorists and danger to the civilized world. 

It is a stereotype that can lead to a discriminatory immigration policy. Religious discrimination is dangerous to world peace, since each religion has many believers, so every time the rights of this group are violated somewhere on the planet, it can cause conflicts and wars on a large scale.