FREE ESSAY ON PREJUDICE

PREJUDICE

In today's world, there are many social issues, like poverty, vandalism and unemployment.
However, prejudice has become the most dramatic one. Prejudging people for their
appearance is a common practice that human perform. People are not only ridiculed for
their color, but also by their religion, sex or age. Therefore, I consider that racism,
ageism and sexism are the three major problems in our society and we need to cease them
immediately.
Much of our world's history were based upon racism. In the 1600's, white men used
Africans as slaves and treated them as they were not human. Colored people were not even
allowed to use the same drinking fountains as white people. Fortunately, in the last
three decades, race prejudice has taken a positive turn. Many rights programs were
created to protect the African Americans. Now, the black community is not only being
increasingly respect by Caucasians, but they are also being idolized by millions of
people all over the world. The most popular watched sport in America, NBA basketball, is
played by over 87% of the African decent. Nevertheless, racism is still a issue that will
never completely go away.
Ageism is also a worrying problem in our society. Though many people think that this is
not a serious problem, people are being harassed about their age everyday, whether they
are too young or too old. I have dealt with this problem myself, as many other teenagers
have. When I walk into some stores, I am asked to leave my purse at the counter and I am
often followed around by employees. They watch every move I make to make sure that I will
not steal anything. I know that theft is a dilemma that many businesses have to deal with
, but when it gets to the point of being untrusted due to your age, it is completely
ridiculous and inappropriate.
Men and women have never been equal in the world and that is what we call sexism. For
example, if a man and a woman who have the same knowledge ask for the same job, the boss
will probably pick the man. Even though they both get the job, the man will maybe have a
better salary than the woman. People always believe that men work better than women but
no one can give a satisfying explication to support that thought. Fortunately, sexism is
decreasing constantly but it will never diminish to the point of complete equality.
We can never judge someone by their physical attributes, but looking inside that person
to see who he really is. I think the solution to reduce racism, sexism and ageism is very
simple: respect and treat each other and as we would like to be treated. Also, we need to
teach children to accept all people, no matter how do they look like. If we educate them
and change our attitudes toward people, sometime in the future we will be closer to
accept that someone's character is always based upon the content of his soul, not his
religion, gender, age, or the color of his skin.