Discrimination in the modern world.

Who are you? Some say humans are just a series of complex organic compounds, fighting for basic need and survival. Some may say you are a soul dance your internal flame until the last bit of energy releases to a beautiful afterlife. A person, to me, is both. She is a caring soul and a series of atoms, but these people are all different to us, the people are what are important, not the body. Malcom Gladwell tells us of how not we see the person inside but the exterior ad how that makes the person.

Racism,  discrimination, and gender bias are all real, horrible things that exist in today's society. These feelings can be uninvolved in a person's life or, it can lead them to do terrible things and harm others for something that the victim can't even control. Malcom Gladwell wrote a paper called the Warren Hading Error, in this paper Gladwell discusses the word and gender association as well as the nature of how this shows who we are.  If I ask you, "Is this word Male or Feminine, Kitchen." What would you answer? Most people would say feminine because women have been type cast as the generic stay at home mom who needs to cook clean and cook again as a lifestyle, but this isn't true. The IAT shows you a picture then a word, you answer if the word is bad or good, then if the picture is one or the other. Some people have a higher expectation that after a word like kitchen there will be a face of a woman and after a word like career to be a face of a man. This is extraordinary, we can see what people are thinking, and even if the person shows complete equality to all people, the test shows on the subconscious level what you think of a social class.

This test is a way a speaking to you, for you to discover how people feel of one another, inequality will always exist, whether in race, gender or sexuality, one class will always choose a side and put themselves above another by harassing, bullying, enslaving or murdering one another. These traits have stood the test of time and have been repeated numerous time through history. Today people like to think we have changed, and we have, but the scars of oppression and hatred still burn there ominous glow in the heart of some people. Can we ever all be equal? I don't know, but to do so we all have to treat others as equals, no matter what ethnicity, we are people, all of us. To move to a better future first we must better ourselves.