Argumentative Essay On Religious Inequality

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Have you ever wonder why an artist get paid more than a doctor? Why in some workplaces they don't have women but men? Why some homosexual, lesbians, transgender, bisexual, etc. don't like to be themselves around certain places or people? Well it is because of inequality. Inequality is an unfair situation in which some people have more rights or better opportunities than other people. There are many and many categories where inequality is essential such as gender, orientation, and religion.

Gender inequality refers to unequal treatment or perceptions of individuals based on their gender. Gender inequality is more than focusing on their gender, for men us the women are just less important that we were just created to serve to them, to our house and go to church, as they used to said back then many years ago. But what
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But being honest that is not what religious inequality is now days. In present day religious inequality is based on what one religion or culture does. For example, the most accurate to talk about now are Muslims. Why? Because not only the United States but other countries think or say that all the people that are Muslims are terrorist. That is not truth because we cannot judge the whole entire religion because some from that religion are bad people. As I once read on the famous social media called Facebook there was a post of a girl who posted that her little 7-year-old niece said as watching the news "Should I say that I am not a Muslim anymore?" The little girl is only 7 years old, and she is wondering if she should hide who she is? I think not. As well, there is religious inequality in schools, work, transportation, mall, restaurants, and many other places that supposedly are 'public' establishments, which means that they're for all people regardless of sex, age, background, social status, religion, sexual preference,

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