Asalam u Alikum,
I started to ponder over the meaning only after our teacher explained it as "I'm superior and others inferior".
Thinking about it, many things came to my mind, is it always with ego or is there some other thing associated with it?
When we grow our parents make a line around us, always warning us no to cross the limits and we readily accept the orders, the limits being about religion, class, caste, or any other social grouping. It is best for us, we think as our parents are our best well-wishers. As we grow there comes a time we need to look over the line and we try to mix up but being careful enough not to cross the line. But as it seems it is inevitable to remain in the circle drawn by our parents, in one way or the other we come across the lines and we forget the borders, but when it comes to our future we suddenly try to assure our safety by remaking the line long forgotten by us. There again we start the segregation of the we people we should meet and those from whom we have to maintain the distance.
Now where comes the question of "ego" in between, it is just something going in our head, it is just a feeling but it is corrosive. It never affects the society but it causes troubles though. It creates social evils but never makes way for what we call as "discrimination".
Nepotism, Apartheid, Religious segregation, Caste Segregation and Gender discrimination are just the apparent effects of the word and a phenomenon called "discrimination".
I started to ponder over the meaning only after our teacher explained it as "I'm superior and others inferior".
Thinking about it, many things came to my mind, is it always with ego or is there some other thing associated with it?
When we grow our parents make a line around us, always warning us no to cross the limits and we readily accept the orders, the limits being about religion, class, caste, or any other social grouping. It is best for us, we think as our parents are our best well-wishers. As we grow there comes a time we need to look over the line and we try to mix up but being careful enough not to cross the line. But as it seems it is inevitable to remain in the circle drawn by our parents, in one way or the other we come across the lines and we forget the borders, but when it comes to our future we suddenly try to assure our safety by remaking the line long forgotten by us. There again we start the segregation of the we people we should meet and those from whom we have to maintain the distance.
Now where comes the question of "ego" in between, it is just something going in our head, it is just a feeling but it is corrosive. It never affects the society but it causes troubles though. It creates social evils but never makes way for what we call as "discrimination".
Nepotism, Apartheid, Religious segregation, Caste Segregation and Gender discrimination are just the apparent effects of the word and a phenomenon called "discrimination".
- It is the dark side of human soul that invokes this evil. It is neither education nor the social efforts that can stop it, it was there, is there, and will be there.
- Peace.
- Abdul.
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