Log #4

Weeks ago, I wrote an article about discrimination. When I was wondering why discrimination have been happening to every human being, a term stroke to my mind. Thinking of that people are being judged by their color of skin, by their religion, and by their physical difference. It seems that those topics are epidemic now around the whole world. There is no doubt; the answer is YES, but have you ever pondered what causes discrimination and inequality. Is it the only reason that history and tradition have been composed the trends of our society since humankind’s existence. A word plays not only good part but also bad part in our lives. Why discriminations are appearing anywhere is due to the sense of superiority. When thinking about personal experiences and gender inequality, dose the sense of superiority matter?

For starters, we all have the sense of superiority. It is like our inborn nature. Although we couldn’t but admit that children is the most innocent and simplest than other adults, we must experience the situation when pursuing our academy. Competition is kind of stimulus in the sense of superiority. When a student always got better scores than other students, that student would be start to belittle others. He/she felt that no one can compete with him/her. Other than that, there was one kind of people in the class without any doubt, “teacher’s pet” whom teacher are really fond of no matter whether his/her grade is good or not. This kind of people enjoy the sense of superiority; they are confidence in that they are protected safely. Despite the fact that we are not willing to acknowledge this inborn nature, the consequence proves in the society. Gender inequality is vulnerable it.

(Please took a look at this Debate website: http://www.debate.org/opinions/are-men-superior-to-women )

Are men superior to women? 56 percent of people hold the point of view on agreement while another 44 percent say no. I am not going to state which group is more correct than the other, but I have to say in terms of different aspects they are all right. Men feel more superior to women because of the sense of superiority. When it comes to when the Noble Prize list of winners, the Oscar winners, the Olympics winners, and so on－these successfully make men feel they are more intelligent than women. (The sexist moments at 2016 Olympics: http://www.vogue.com/article/sexist-moments-olympics-coverage)

Years’ accumulation reflects on our society. Gender inequality won’t end as long as human beings don’t learn to respect others and put asides their sense of superiority. As we know feminist have been spent great efforts to raise people’s awareness of gender equality. It is significant progress when females were entitled to attend schools. More and more people are educated. We all hope one day people can live in a society without inequality. However, we should also take the sense of superiority seriously. It is related to discrimination, and it is our inborn nature. Perhaps by being educated, we can learn to take it under control, and education can help to lessen discrimination.