Question

V.ANSWER THE FOLLOWING:
1. Give any two reasons on which people discriminate
each other.
2. Why India is called a 'secular country?
3. What does the Constitution say with regard to
equality? Why do you think it is important for all people
to be equal?
7. How can the stereotype that girls are a burden
their parents affect the life of a daughter? Imagine
situation and list at least five different effects that this
stereotype can have on the way daughters get treated in
the house.​

Answer 1

Answer:

1) a) on the basis of their cast .

b) on the basis of their skin colour

It's like you have given us homework for the day

Answer 2

There are at least four reasons why we discriminate, whether it is against another race, or another person within our race.

Insecurity

Subconsciously, we may be insecure and feel a need to tear others down as a way of raising ourselves up. We are all vulnerable to feelings of inferiority, insecurity and inadequacy. Satan and the fallen world in which we live make sure of that.

Just let someone point out an unflattering physical feature, or incompetence, or deficiency, and the flush of embarrassment or anger that follows is a sure-fire sign of our vulnerability to insecurities.

In situations such as these, we usually either retreat or attack, and discrimination is a tool we may use to attack.

Ignorance

Last week, we looked at reasons why we should not discriminate. They included the fact that we are created in the image of God, that God views us as equal in His eyes, that we should “do unto others as we would have others do unto us,” and that God created diversity throughout His creation, and He intends us to experience unity in the midst of diversity.

If we don’t know these things, were never taught these things, or were taught the opposite, we may be more vulnerable to the temptations brought on by insecurity.

Weakness

We may have grown up in a culture of discrimination. Our family, our school, our town/city may have had discrimination as a value, and though we may have known or sensed that it was wrong, we did not have the personal strength to stand against it. Peer pressure is a powerful thing.

Pride

We may find some who are different from us genuinely off-putting, and out of a sense of superiority, we look down on them.

Again, this goes way beyond race. It may involve those who are mentally or physically handicapped, those who are “odd-looking”, those who are above or below us in the socio-economic ladder, those who are culturally different. And because there is a genuine aversion, we indulge our aversion and discriminate against others.

There are surely other reasons why we discriminate, but we don’t need to look at all the reasons why. We just need to see a representative sample to conclude that it is wrong, and we need to forsake it.