Discrimination-----Week 8

In China, I think discrimination exist in few aspects, especially for gender, economic class and sexual orientation. As we know, China has a huge number of population, and most of people are coming form country. So, it is hard for families to have girls. They do not have as much labour as boys, consequently, when country families has a girl, they may prefer to have another child. However, in cities, this kind of discrimination is not as serious as country. There has awareness that boys and girls are equal. In fact, this discrimination exists for a long time, since ancient time, people thought boys were better than girls. Economic class is also a part of discriminations in China. Some areas’ economy is better, and those area people prejudice other poorer area people. Or some people is rich, and they prejudice poor people. They thought they are the best in the world; they could do anything they want to do. That is a shame, they are lack of inner quality, they lose the principle of being a human, and that is why sometimes our country has argue on the living locations. Eventually, sexual orientation also is a kind of discrimination. Maybe by the influence of our education, it is hard to be a gay. By the traditional idea, almost all the Chinese cannot image that homosexuality is happened around themselves. So, if we found somebody has strange sexual orientation, they will be discriminated by us. All of them are the biggest discriminations in China, other aspects are exists, but they are not very obvious.

Actually, I do not discriminate against any groups in particular. I know that different people have different idea, different culture and different life style. No one is bad and no one is good. I think when someone was discriminated, they must did something that unaccepted by general people, however, there never have any groups are considered to be discriminated.

Speaking of the experience of discrimination, unfortunately, I think the unhappy thing was when I came in Canada and living in Quebec. Well, obviously, I am form foreign country, and the local people do not like the alien people. For example, one day my friends and I were going to play bowling ball. Before we entered the door, the guide asked us to show ID card (only passport is acceptable, student card is unavailable). We did not bring them and he asked us to leave. And we angered that we were the only people that be checked. So, we asked him why only us, he answered that he selected people to be check. Although, we were angry, the only thing we could do is leaving. Sometimes, discrimination comes suddenly and unbelievable. And we knew that, foreign people are treated as unfair way.

I do think it is impossible for anyone to be completely unbiased. The society we are living, the culture we are educated and the way we are thinking all influence our mind. More or less, we do not like other areas people’s living style and that becomes a kind of discrimination. Anyway, do not put our own expression when we meet some new views or things.