There has been a struggle for equal rights among all genders, races, religions, and sexualities since the beginning of the United States of America for people believe they deserve the same rights as everyone else on the premise that they are all human beings. In his article “Discrimination must not be tolerated” (2013), Daniel Swanton notes that while there are documents and laws regarding human rights there are various examples of discrimination throughout the world as people are continuously targeted because of their different backgrounds and beliefs. The most common place to witness discrimination, particularly in the United States, is in the workplace where members of minority races have been harassed by their coworkers because they “think it’s ‘funny’ to use the ‘n word’ in conversation to tell jokes insulting blacks, Latinos, Asians, and other minorities” (Workplace Fairness 2017). What is even more distressing, however, is those being discriminative are not reprimanded or if they are they are let off easy thus furthering the idea that discriminating another human being is okay.
Instead of promoting discrimination, countries should be celebrating multiculturalism and diversity for there is a lot humans can learn from each other to build a society where people can freely practice their ideologies without the fear of being discriminated against. Wolfestone goes even so far to remind their readers that countries such as America and England “are already a diverse mixed of cultures rolled into one” (2010) which is one of the reasons they are such large empires thus enforcing the idea that multiculturalism should be celebrated to better the world.
Work Cited
"Race Discrimination." Workplace Fairness. Midwest New Media, LLC, 2017. Web. 04 Jan. 2017.
Swanton, Daniel. "Discrimination Must Not Be Tolerated." Ethical Rights. Australia's E-journal of Social and Political Debate, 7 Feb. 2013. Web. 4 Jan. 2017.
"The Benefit of Multicultural Societies." Wolfestone. Wolfestone Translation Ltd, 17 Dec. 2010. Web. 4 Jan. 2017.
