BarrieToday welcomes letters to the editor at [email protected]. Please include your daytime phone number and address (for verification of authorship, not publication). The following is from Warnica Public School student Chloe Lee and was written as part of a social studies lesson.
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Discrimination is in the world. Hello, my name is Chloe Lee. I find discrimination is the one thing we must change. It is dumb. This is what I’m going to talk about to you.
It happens when people are unjust. Discrimination is like racism, but it could be about anything. Twenty-three per cent of Canadian people said they had experience discrimination. Thirty-one per cent of adults in the United States of America have done discrimination in their lives.
I said racism is something close to discrimination. It is one of the types of discrimination. I’ll give you an example: There is less chance of somebody being arrested than another because of their skin colour. It is extremely sad that they are way more examples of discrimination. It could be about your age, difficulty (disable), religion, gender, who you are and just too many to write them all…So unjust. Think it through — someone says you cannot work in a company because you like horses? Nonsense.
I think no, no discrimination. I know it’s not good. I believe you also know it. First, as I said before, it’s bad. I want to say ‘rethink’ to the people who do not accept that discrimination is super bad. Choose the right choice.
Three, think. We need to stop it, we must. Everyone, if you see, hear, it’s you who must take some action and you who has to stop. You need to think not to do it. Maybe, you did discrimination to others, but did the others do it to you?
Even if your family, friends, and people you love have done it before. You shouldn’t copy. You must correct and speak to them. We could change the world. It is you. Some humans do not even know what discrimination is. It’s one thing human beings think that it is gone forever but, discrimination is always there.
At least try to stop their action, words about discrimination. Perhaps you could make a poster with a message on it. Have courage and show the world that discrimination must have an end. One by one, even though it’s not a big change. I hope the next generation won’t know what discrimination is because it’s not there. We could. We are.
Bye discrimination, I want to say one day. Discrimination has to end.
Chloe Lee
Barrie
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