Gender Discrimination

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“Hillary doesn’t have a presidential look.” (Trump 2016) After a century there will be a potential that a woman might be representing America, however men like Trump will still try to defame and suppress females like her to never amount to anything. It’s disappointing to see, how America prides itself for being a country of equal opportunity, yet you still see sexism occurring. Not only is she faced with it but many more women like her (especially) when it comes to wage differences, but not only does discrimination end here but there are a minority group of people that are still targeted for their race, such as African Americans. For centuries there seems to be no change into our society, we still discriminate against those of colors. And also …show more content…
No one cares to spend time with them, rather tries to push them out of their life. I personally love to spend time with kids with disorders, I used to be involved in a club called “Circle Of Friends.” Where every Friday I would go spend time with kids that most people would call “Special”, I have a great friend named Alexandria, whom I met there, she was Hispanic, with such lively attitude and beautiful light brown eyes, she was so sweet. Every time I went there she got so excited and would always come give me a hug. One thing that differentiated her from my friends was, she was true and spoke her mind, she never lied to me. She did whatever she wanted, whenever and didn’t care what others thought of her. (Sedaris 1997) “A person had to do these things because nothing was worse than the anguish of not doing them.” (362) Maybe this is why she was so free to speak her mind and do as pleased, rather than holding onto her thoughts like we do. While many people view them to be unfit for society, I remember having people make faces when she would come and when she wanted something she would just take it. She did that to one of my friends, she took her book because it had a pretty red flower on it. And my friend at that time, snatched it back and insulted her about her condition. I looked at her and stood infront of Alexandria and told my friend, “Well you …show more content…
It doesn’t get easier than this, until we don’t create a change in us we can’t blame society to be how it is, we made it this way. Treating others how I want to be treated has helped me in building stronger relations rather than “more” (fake) ones. When you are kind to others you can never be harmed, I felt protected because I knew I was being valued for my kindness, I was treated better. (Haidt 2006)“Play tit for tat. Do to others what they do unto you. Specifically, the tit for tat strategy, do to your partner whatever your partner did to you on the previous round.” (57) I was so caught up in expecting to be treated how I’m treating others, and maybe having that expectation is the reason why I didn’t get treated as well as I should have. It costed me to be insulted at times, but I never gave up, I keep trying, just not as hard as before. I be nice the first round, but if they can’t respect me I no longer try

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