The world is full of stigma and even when people try not to make it seem obvious through their spoken or written words, their facial expressions or gestures, they can't change the fact that it is still existent in their thoughts, and they don't have to actually explain this because majorly, everyone's thoughts are invincible unless it's otherwise expressed.
Take a look at social media, racism is still rampant and evident and attempts like the UDHR of the 1948 by the United Nation cannot actually change this.
In fact, I use to feel it's the wrongest of actions for we humans to actually write down how we should behave towards our fellow humans, in a sort of loose confederal writings where people only need to pretend. So if we make laws to prohibit certain actions and place certain things as punishable by the law, how can we simply achieve obedience by writing down how we show feel towards each other, irrespective of race, status, background, cultural difference, beliefs or difference in ideologies?
Unspoken But Underlying
Discrimination goes with stigma. We ourselves, understands that everyone irrespective of who they are, deserves equality. Humans thinking low of themselves is why there's always constant segregation. When you take a look at the world currently. Some companies would reject people they deem to be "too ugly" simply because they feel these people wouldn't be able to sell the companies ideas enough simply because they do not have a marketable face.
Now, these companies wouldn't make it evident that they're screening people for their looks as well, they would only keep these intents to themselves simply because if they say it out, loudly, they might appear discriminative, they might even lose clients, or lose business deals. So they'll allow these invincible but active discriminative tendencies to be effective in their choice of selections because no one is there to actually pay attention to their hidden agenda, despite the fact that the world we currently live in is silently advocating for oneness and equity.
I believe that to some certain extent, the functional human believes that stereotypical and discriminative attitude or thoughts is a general limiting factor to how far we can go when it comes to building inter-human relationships, however not everyone totally believes this.
When you look at English football currently, there's a movement called NO ROOM FOR RACISM
In this situation, the players are obligated to knell for one minute before the beginning of a football match to actually show that they're not racist. My question is: does this singular act change the deep racial belief of people, which they've cultivated all their lives? The answer is simple: NO. Overtime we have made attempts towards awareness, as an act to make people change their any existing shrewd ideologies, beliefs or convictions that might have, but honesty I believe most awareness campaigns aimed at inspiring people to do better, only achieves pretentiousness, how come?
A Charade Of Pretense?
Social media for example, is a charade of pretense. This is because we have people who are living double lives; acting differently in other to create an impression. They're people who are typing what is deemed to be acceptable, but generally their social media ideologies isn't in any way Influencing their real-time beliefs. I believe most people say what others would want them to say, because there's no gatekeeping the things that are encapsulated in the mind.
I find it rather useless that we generally need to remind others again and again to actually be magnanimous, never segregate, discriminate or stigmatize others, because subconsciously we have the sense of "right'' and "wrong" and mostly choose to ignore it. The main point here is, creating awareness about showing people they right way to behave towards a particular subject is almost useless, because this can only bring an unrealistic and pretentious change without lasting effect. That is, people can actually pretend to change, in other to follow the herd and not because they've actually changed. This isn't to say the world isn't changing, the pretense, the deceit and lies is what actually makes us think the change is faster and better than it actually seems like.
So What Is the Best Action?
In reality, the best action is challenging people to change and not teaching them to change. I believe that every human entity have the dominion of thoughts and one of the ways through which people actually abolish their thoughts and predominantly create new one's is by going through life-changing experiences as well. My point is to actually abolish segregation, discrimination and stigmatization is that we have to accept the fact that despite the attempts to totally hold different views we cannot but admit that we have made decisions, remarks or openly said things that have actually be different from what we should.
One of the most underwhelming which people can be known to have actually stigmatized another person is by inadvertently pitying them rather than showing them compassion and empathy. This is to show that, to change a person, you need to change their ideas, their belief and their convictions, which in turn change their views. However, the kind of change we tend to forestall on others is the one which they're likely to pretend to change meanwhile they haven't changed. This is to say that we cannot truly change people unless there's a possibility that they themselves are already experience change within them. This is why I believe encouraging people to altruistically change by themselves is the best kind of action.
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