Start living without Prejudice, Stereotype, and Discrimination
To start your live without prejudice, stereotype, and discrimination, we have to know what the meanings of those terminologies are. In this chance, I want to share the definition of the terminologies. Moreover, I will give the examples that closely relate with us.
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First, prejudice is a bias idea which comes from our mind without any enough control. For example when we see a person who wears ordinary cloth, we might think if he/she is poor person. Is it? The answer is definitely no! Let’s look at Bob Sadino (one of entrepreneurship figure) who almost in his time wearing shorts and t-shirts. Yet, the fact he is not kind of a poor man because he is one of successful businessman in Indonesia.
Second, stereotype is a result from prejudice. Usually, it is attributed with such community or ethnic for example, Java, Sunda, or Batak. Sometime we hear a person says, “Ah...Orang Jawa, pasti presentasinya lama deh! Mereka kan kalau bicara suka muter-muter”. If we reflect into our live, we will find how often we experienced or even did it before. So, the question is how come it grows strongly in the process of our live?
Based on writer experience, we did it because the influence of our environment. When you were child, have you ever asked by your parents to keep the distance with some of your friends? If the answer is yes, had they explained you the reason? Well, from that moment the culture to do stereotype was started. We are trained to generalized people around without definite answer. The more we grow the wider society we are mixed up with. Unfortunately, we are influenced insensibly. Hence, if we were agree if stereotype is bad behavior, we have to filter everything comes to my head.
The last one, discrimination is the accumulation of too much doing prejudice and stereotype. Probably, when we are do stereotype, it is still considered as common expression though false. Yet, if we are in discrimination stages, it must be better to remove discrimination characteristics from ourselves. Why it should be like that? Just imagine when the person who does discrimination to you is your father. The writer assumes you will not stand beside him in long time. You are like to be ignored by him, and it must be hurt. Actually, that was just a little example. Could you imagine if the person who does discrimination is our president? As the result is this country will not achieve a real freedom in various aspects, like nowadays (it doesn’t mean our real president does discrimination).
After read this short essay, hopefully we can start our new live. It is a living without any prejudice, stereotype, and discrimination. Because without those characteristics we can live together happily, everywhere and whenever we are.
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