When people talk about discrimination it isn’t a secret that it is an issue that have been by the hand of society during the whole human existence; We can see its roots printed in history as an evidence that even when many people throughout the centuries have been trying to overcome it is something inherent to the human race.
It is known that ancient cultures showed their rejection and contempt through wars and slavery, however, discrimination is a modern concept which saw the light in Europe and in the Spanish colonies in America where a necessity to show superiority was the motivating factor, in fact, it is still one of the main causes on discrimination.
Even though there are a lot types of discrimination, I think there is just one cause which is at least for me the starter; The ignorance.
In my view, the discrimination is just a consequence of our fear about something we don’t know or is completely estrange for us, a completely irrational reaction by instinct but a reaction that should not be hard for us overcoming due to the rationality that has been given to us.
Thus, we have seen through many history facts that it is a problem with a blurred solution because it does not depend on anybody’s action, is rather a matter of everyone mentality, education and cultural background, factors with a very complex structure because those belong to every single individual just like each one personality.
At any rate, it seems to me that it is worth to fight against this social ignorance, taking a step back to learn from our history and turn our mental processes into something different so as to revert our fears and contempt to a true and effective change of attitude, to do so, Schools should be the proper scenery to make this changes possible and to advocate its student to grow social values such as tolerance, respect and solidarity to work against any kind of discrimination and promote equality.
All in all, it is a problem which has always been, it is, and it will be with mankind for the rest of its existence.
Jhennie there is a nice movie about this topic, which Oscar recommended me and which then became one of my favorite movies. It's "Manderlay" by Lars von Trier. Actually it can be said a lot about discrimination. But for me the main problem of it is discrimination as a fetishism of people whose ancestors were discriminated because of different reasons in the past. It's inside us, it's in our blood and to be free we need to deal with it somehow. As a famous Russian writer Anton Chekhov said "we need to squeeze out the slave drop by drop".
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