Discrimination

What Is Discrimination?

"the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex."

Discrimination occurs even when the offender knows the person. Discrimination happens because people believe they are superior because of their race, gender, age etc. This leads to people treating each other unfairly and with no respect, as they do not believe we are all equal. Discrimination is an active process as it involves constantly opressing people/one person because of something they have no control over.

Discrimination can be encouraged by the media and news as people start to believe that certain people are less than others.

Solutions

There is no real solution to prejudice and discrimination, as it is all about peoples thinking and preconcieved notions, which is very difficult to change. In order to tackle these things there needs to be a grand change in the perception of certain races, genders, ages etc. because putting certain people in a bad light is what causes these things.

Religious Prejudice and Discrimination

Religious discrimination is unequal treatment of an individual or group based on their beliefs.

While Americans are protected under the First Amendment to practice religion freely, hundreds of countries are not protected by their government and instead harassed for their beliefs. In a four-year study of religious discrimination around the world (2006-2010), Christians were the most-discriminated against group, experiencing harassment by the government and society in 168 countries.

Muslims make up the second largest religious population in the world and were discriminated against in 121 countries worldwide between 2006 and 2010.

Religious Discrimination can take place anywhere in the world that there are different religions interacting with each other or living/residing in the same area. This can be due to a difference in beliefs and a clash in traditions.