Human rights
As a matter of facts our communities are rapidly changing, giving life to a modern and a different world. In some countries human rights seems to be far away to be met, while in other countries is right the next door. When we talk about human rights, we all need to acknowledge those who brought them into life. You see most of the constitutions in the world claim to have human rights in it but in real life they don’t really exist among the population and people must fight for them. But who are those people? who are those people who fought and/or perhaps are fighting for those rights? Well, the answer is quite simple the minority, in the words of Louis Wirth he defined a minority group as “a group of people who, because of their physical or cultural characteristics are singled out from the others in the community in which they live for differential and unequal treatment, and who therefore regard themselves as objects of collective discrimination”. In simple words the minority are people who experience relative disadvantages as compared members of a dominant social group. This are groups who are prone to differential treatment and faces discrimination in multiples areas of social life, including housing, employment, healthcare and education in the countries and societies in which they live. These groups are ethnic minority, racial minority, sexual minority, gender minority and disability minority.
We all need to understand that being in a community does not require us to be the same, having the same opinions or thoughts, having the same believes and being in the dominant social group. All it requires is to have the same opportunities, equal rights, the same standards of living, all that a community requires is all that live in it are equal, but not necessary we should be the same. All the decision made is according to the majority, either politically or socially, but have you asked yourself when the minority should be considered? Or when can we say, the majority doesn’t count?
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