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Human beings are the most sensitive living things on this planet. One word or saying out of someone’s mouth can haunt us forever and effect in many ways or have an impact on us psychologically and sociologically. Discrimination destroys us mentally and physically in every possible ways but is it possible to eliminate it. Discrimination can be eliminated through educating one another, not segregating one culture form another and most importantly treating one another with respect.
One can wonder how possibly can we eliminate discrimination through education, we can educate our growing generation about diversity and how we are all human beings just with different skin colors. Educating the society can have a societal impact as one another will be gaining knowledge about equality, how with different skin colors, we still are human beings with different traits. For example, teaching kids about diversity will open their minds towards other cultures and people with different personalities, they will step out of their comfort zone to meet people and become social rather than judging someone. This is an example of societal impact as people will see these kids being open minded towards people with different backgrounds and motivate them to open up to other people. Discrimination can be eliminated through educating people about other cultures, backgrounds so one can understand that no matter what color we are; we are just human beings but with different backgrounds.
No one feels good about himself or herself when people isolate them and not include them in anything. This impacts people socially and mentally. Often, when people or groups of people are discriminated against; first they are rejected socially and then the harsh times start to ...

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