Division In Society

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The society, we live is divided because of many factors, like race/color discrimination, division of religion, and politics. The division of people based on two radically different views, drive people apart. The world is divided because people tend to have different ideas and thus causing division between groups. It will obvious that there will be disagreement in the world, but the problem is that people are not willing to share ideas to make the most ideal option that benefits everyone. The problem is everyone want their way to be the best option because it best accommodates their life. For example the perspective towards religion, race and even politics. Many of the division that happens in the United States is when is comes to the presidential …show more content…
Some 75 percent of religiously observant whites voted for Mitt Romney in 2012 compared with only 46 percent of non-observant whites.”(cohn 2014) Religion also has been a gateway towards separation because many peoples ' want to use religion as a method to hate or blame for situations occurring. I 'm not saying religion causes evil, religion main purpose is to teach people how to differentiate good from evil. Many use religion to discriminate the different thus causing division, like rejecting the gay community like in many cases, but with most recent with a woman in Kentucky, who was a county clerk denied to marry a homosexual couple as it say in the …show more content…
Their perspective of how they see racism can differ from another because it may have a definition people tend to say things with the perspective they see things. The point is with a different perspective of seeing things can divide us because we disagree because it doesn 't benefits the other options thus creating different groups with their own way of life either mutual or challenging the different group with the different perspective of seeing life. The society, we live in does not want to listen to other ideas because they already believe what they have is the ideal one. We lack in diversity of opinion and the ability to listen as stated by Diversity Makes You Brighter it says “Diversity improves the way people think. By disrupting conformity, racial and ethnic diversity prompts people to scrutinize facts, think more deeply and develop their own opinions. Our findings show that such diversity actually benefits everyone, minorities and majority

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