Saturday, December 20, 2008

Discrimination Discriminalized

Read this statement.




"People will not discriminate against those not in their group if they were simply randomly put together by the flip of a coin."





Fellow readers, what do you have to say about this?

7 comments:

SuE RaY said...

i don't get it..

the words are jumbled up in my brain and all i'm getting is static..
haish..

those that mean im too shallow??
or just not awake inof?

Liz said...

i agree.

partly.

until those people placed randomly in the group simply by the flip of coin discovers something in common. when they do, they use the common factor to distinguish their group from another and causes feelings of "us against them"

then the discrimination starts.

Pison The Great said...

Sue ray,

why is it hard to understand?

Pison The Great said...

Jia mun, so you're saying that discrimation happens even the group of people is randomized.

Tha's exactly the question, which means it cancels off the "I agree, partly until......". :D

There's no point to refer the word "until" to.

Pison The Great said...

Jia mun,

how about if they have very limited chance to find out the common things that they share?

Say that if you are in a situation where you have to get rid of a person immediately with little information about the people in the group, such as occupation and sexual orientation, what would you do?

SuE RaY said...

hurgh..

lemme reread that...

okay, i get it now, people won't discriminate other people,

if the ppl in that group were only randomly put together...

and my opinion, nah, sum ppl, mana2 diletak pon masey akan discriminate other ppl..

Pison The Great said...

Sueray, close but I think wrong. Hehehe...

Let me give you a situation.

Say there are 6 people: Hafidz, Sueray, Yuin Yi, Jia Mun, Kelvian, JK.

First, people are divided into 2 teams according to gender.

After two weeks, the deck is shuffled:

Team A Team B
Hafidz Sueray
Jia Mun Yuin Yi
Kelvian JK

Again, I remind you that these people don't know each other.



Question: Do you think discrimination happens in both teams? How?