The Discrimination

Few days back, we had a debate on the issue of discrimination in Indian society. Few of us were arguing that ours is the society which discriminates people on the basis of their casts. We are living in such a society where we are not ready to award same social status to our fellow citizens. Argument went forward and our society was compared with developed western societies. Here arose the real problem. All of us were aware about loopholes in our social behaviour but when we were compared with western developed countries, there took place another big debate about the supremacy of the traditions in various societies.

No doubt cast based discrimination is still dominant in India but that does not mean only Indians are discriminators. It takes place everywhere. Now one thought came out that westerns discrimination is based on abrasion and not on casts.

For me, discrimination in either of the forms is fatal to any society. It is not about the Indian or other civilizations but its about the basic human nature. People like to differentiate themselves from others irrespective of their geographical locations. Rather I would say they like to find commonality among each other. Indian civilization is the oldest among other societies. Cast based discrimination became dominant hundreds of years before. The Indians found the caste as the common factor among themselves and various Varnas came into existence. Initially these Varnas defined the day to day job responsibilities of individuals belonging to their Varnas. Later on when time changed these Varnas started creating major problems in Indian society. Same is the case with westerns. They found skin colour as the common factor among themselves. So they became racist. After macro differentiation people will go to the micro level e.g. nations, states, cities, behaviours, languages etc. More or less each human has contributed in this discrimination with above mentioned parameters. So it doesn’t make any sense to term Indians as only discriminators in the world.

This is the social problem and everybody is aware about that. We have mastered the art of problem findings but we are poor in solving them. If we can’t work on solutions then it would be better to avoid creating other problems.