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To be discriminated means to get different treatment compared to others based on some of your characteristics; skin color, sex, language, religion etc. Discriminatory traditions, ideas and practices exist in many countries and institutions in every part of the world, even in ones where discrimination is generally superseded. Therefore, many countries are introducing laws that can help in preventing various forms of discrimination.
Furthermore, stereotypes are relatively simplified and rigid beliefs about the members of certain social groups. Simplified because they generalize entire groups, and rigid because it is very difficult to change them. They are generally not accurate because they do not take into consideration the diversity of individuals belonging to a particular group. We all have a responsibility to fight against stereotypes and prejudices that we notice in ourselves and in others, with confronting them and trying to explain the characteristics of a person regardless of its affiliation to a particular