Discrimination Essay on Racism

Discrimination is a negative way to show power or that a group or person is better than another. Racism is one of the most destructive types of discrimination. Instead of bringing people together discrimination pushes people apart. One of the most destructive types of discrimination is on someone or a group's race such as Hitler and the Jews. Secondly another problem is discrimination against people with disabilities they get treated different and looked down upon because they are different. Lastly different genders getting discriminated in the workplace or sexism. Discrimination can have a major effect on society.

Racism can have a negative effect on society. Firstly, the colour of your skin can cause an act in racism. One day at school I was talking to my friends and we were talking about what my background was I get this question a lot seeing as my last name is Rodriques, so I told them my father's parents are from Jamaica and my mother's parents are from Ireland and Scotland they were shocked and someone shouted out "oh, so you're a mutt...or would you rather be called a half breed" as in referring to a dog at this point people thought this was funny and started to laugh at first I laughed along seeing as it was just a joke but on the inside it really took a toll on me. In class we read a story called "Land of No Delight" which is about a teenage boy who comes from a black family who had just moved to a new country where it is mostly white people he feels like the odd one out. In the book it says "It was a displacement that was real because he different. He felt exclusion because of his colour. He looked into the night with weighted eyes and tried to swallow his feelings of anger and impotence."(96) Even though he is just like any other person out there he feels excluded and angry he cannot do anything about it and this is why racism can have a negative effect on society.

In society, disable individuals can be looked at as helpless, needy people who always need assistance, therefore making the lives around the able bodied person miserable. Which is discrimination. In the book "Flowers for Algernon" Charlie's co-workers, Joe and Frank, continuously treat Charlie with disrespect just because he is mentally disabled. Frank and Joe are very insensitive towards him because when someone makes a mistake in the story would make comments like "you pulled a real Charlie Gordon." (20) In saying this it shows how truly insensitive people can be towards the disabled. Secondly, because Charlie is mentally disabled, his mother believes that his sister won't have a good childhood and get to experience a normal life if Charlie stays living with their family. Charlie's mom says, "We can't destroy her chance at having a normal life because of him" (69). She thinks that getting rid of her son will solve all their problems and give