Everyone is Special in Their Own Ways

Discrimination is not the same as teasing as I’ve learned from Mom and my sister and proved it using the Internet.  Though teasing is part of discriminating. There are different types of discrimination: discrimination by age, disability, gender, racial and also religious discrimination. None of them states about physical teasing.

            Therefore I never experienced to be discriminated.

            But I’ve discriminated people. I didn’t say or do anything to hurt them but just to think and act that they are different and funny made me a sinner. I make face and think of bad things when I see Muslims or a Bumbay. I laugh at how Visayans speak, how people force to sing even they are out of tune and how other people try to speak in English. But when I picture myself I saw that I have done the same things too.  For this I want to say sorry to God for I am laughing at His wonderful creations and to those people I upset.

Laura Ingalls Wilder was discriminated for being a country girl but her stories as a country girl made her famous. Native Indians were prohibited in some places and they were always pictured as bad people but they were really the real inhabitants of America. Nancy drew was judged for being a girl detective, men say he should not be a sleuth because it’s not for ladies and they think ladies are weak but she was able to solve mysteries. Helen Keller was under estimated for she was blind but she proved that she could be someone special.

Discrimination is a sin; God created us uniquely and had given us free will. We can do whatever we want but it should be in the right path.

            We may not be aware that in simple things that we do we hurt others. In just looking at them with judging eyes, giggling at what they are doing, under estimating their abilities and imitating what they are acting may hurt people even though it's just a joke to us.

            We should learn not to judge at all times because everyone is special in their own ways.  

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do. 

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged. 

Helen Keller 

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