Discrimination free essay sample

Discrimination, nowadays it is a word which common meaning is the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex. l However this word has a couple more meanings than the one mentioned at the beginning of this essay. I think that the proper formal meaning of this word is to recognize the differences between two or more things. I believe that this definition is the essential one for discrimination taking in account its etymology. The word discrimination comes from discriminate, which comes from the Latin discriminare which means distinction. This word is normally used to make a racial or prejudicial distinction and almost everyone thinks that it is its only use but, it has a lot more uses than racial distinctions. This word can be used in math, physics, science, it is even used to discriminate people and not in a bad way. Hassan one of the main characters in the story, was murdered in the middle of the street in broad day light by some Taliban members. Hassans wife was also killed because she was a Hazara. The Taliban killed Hassan because they thought he was a squatter in Amirs house. Hassan tried to tell the Taliban he was a servant of Amirs father, Baba who was a Pushtan, but his efforts were in vain. The Talibans said he was a liar and a thief like all Hazaras and ordered him to get his family out of the house by sundown (Hosseini, 230) Rahim Khan who said that in the novel is simply implying that Hassan never did anything wrong, and that he was just doing what he was told to do and that was to watch over the house. As much as Hassan tried to tell the Taliban he wasnt doing anything bad, he was shot while others just watched what happened. Hassan should have not been murdered for such a senseless belief. He was victim of stereotyping by the Taliban by how he looked.There is not a particular group of people who are exactly the same, so why do people discriminate others who look or act a bit different, we are all humans right? Khaled explains how Hassan and his father Ali, looked in the novel, They called him flat-nosed because of Ali and Hassans characteristic Hazara Mongoloid features. For years, that was all I knew about the Hazaras, that they were Mogul descendants, and that they looked a little like Chinese people†¦ Things Baba hadnt mentioned either. It also said some things I did know, like that people called Hazaras mice-eating, flat-nosed, load-carrying donkeys. I had heard some of the kids in the neighborhood yell those names to Hassan. (Hosseini, 9) Quite often we hear people making fun of others because he is short or she is fat but in reality, there is not a single person who sets a standard for humanity. Hassan had physical characteristics that differ from other people, and thats why he was bullied. He was looked down because he was different from the rest. Assef a neighborhood bully always picked on Hassan because he was different from the rest, His [Assefs] blue eyes flicked to Hassan. Afghanistan is the land of Pashtuns. It always has been, always will be. We are the true Afghans, the pure Afghans, not this Flat-Nose here. His people pollute our homeland, our watan. They dirty our blood. He made a sweeping, grandiose gesture with his hands. Afghanistan for Pashtuns, I say. Thats my vision.' (Hosseini 40)