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Samuel Palungan Rantetoding

Hannah Meeuwse
Individuals & Societies Grade 10
8 November 2015

Why Discriminate?

Discrimination is happen around the world. We cant argue that it will be deleted
in this world because its human habit, but we can decrease the discrimination around the
world by respecting others. Consider that, How we can respect others? Sometimes we
didnt realize when we discriminate someone. Maybe, we think that were not
discriminating them, but they feel like we discriminate against them. People sometimes
discriminate other people based on their beliefs or other thing that they can use to
discriminate, such as appearances, skin color, and body shape. People want to
discriminate because they hate that person, they strictly followed their beliefs, and they
want to make people humiliated.
Discrimination happens by organisms exposure to stimuli, inner mediated
condition, and response. (Koh) From that we can know that people discriminate because
they have motivation to do it. Some of people also not doing the discrimination, but
become prejudice. Some argue that prejudice occurs as a justification for discrimination.
(Long) Prejudice nondiscriminatory was a prejudice, but they dont openly discriminate.
Its like they discriminate, but not to the point, maybe they use examples of some people
that they know to discriminate person that they hate. The most discriminate issues that

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happen in the world were racism. If they control their prejudices, people will highly
reducing their racism. (Ziegert) Prejudice sometimes thought that black people were
horrible. Thats why prejudice always discriminate them.
People sometimes discriminate because they have both internal psychological
motivation and external psychological motivation. External motivation for people to
discriminate basically happens because their society or their culture taught them to do
something that cause discrimination to other culture. Internal motivation for people to
discriminate basically happens because the person that discriminate have mentally
problem, such as unconfident, and attitudes. They also discriminate because of the person
that they discriminate were ruin their dignity. Maybe they treat person that discriminate
horribly, such as embarrass, and violence. The inequality in the social norms also impacts
their motive to discriminate, such as mental illness, homophobia, sexism, xenophobia,
physical disability, etc. (McCreary)
Discrimination can be conscious or unconscious because it depends on the
problem. Sometimes people know that they discriminate because they just want to make
fun of the person that they discriminate. Sometimes people were also unconscious if they
discriminate against them because they thought that it fine for them, but we didnt know
what the person feels about it.
Reason alone can never be a motive to any action of the will and Reason is, and
only ought to be, the slave of the passions. (Hume) Ideas only become conscious when
assimilated with other ideas previously existing in the consciousness, a process he termed
apperceptive mass. (Herbart) (McCreary) From the quotes above, we can know that
people didnt have the rights to discriminate people. Even though that it was an

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unconscious act, but still we didnt have the rights to discriminate against them. We
should respect each other because we were born equal. If we ever discriminate people,
what we can do was to apologize because discrimination is like part of human nature.
Everyday discrimination happens around the world. What we can do to stop or reducing
discriminate is to start respecting others and try to teach younger people to act justly.

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Works Cited
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Ziegert, Jonathan C., and Paul J. Hanges. "Employment Discrimination: The Role of
Implicit Attitudes, Motivation, and a Climate for Racial Bias." Journal of Applied
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McCreary, Cynthia. " History of Social Norms, Prejudice, and Discrimination: Us and
Them" Human Nature and Inequality. 2011. Print.
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