Nidal Shkarni ENG 110-04

9-6-2019

Discrimination

This has been on my mind lately. We grow up in the world where equality is preached all around us. Because of this, a person may just believe that modern societies are void of discrimination, that we’ve evolved, that it’s a thing of the past. But discrimination happens every day and on many levels: race, disability and, religion. One day, you wake up and realize equality may just be a myth. You realize this when discrimination happens to you.

While I have been in the United States, I have faced discrimination only one time by old man in Washington DC airport. I was praying, and he thought I am terrorist. He starts to say bad words about my culture and my religion. I did not care about what he said, but I was really care one day that old man know he was wrong and changes his point view about Arab, because their believes are not the same. In my work, I have been discriminated against two times, and both were at the same job by two different regional managers. I found myself a little bewildered because these were two giant corporations from which you’d expect professionalism. Because every new employee must spend hours in training sessions regarding all of these issues before they are allowed to begin work, it catches you off guard when an executive breaks such basic rules. I worked with disabled people, especially students disabled. After the revolution of Libya there, were many students who were abandoned them, because their families were against the revolution and supporting the old system; however this is not excuse to treat them in differently. They are human beings and they have feelings, dignity, and respect. My entire job exists to fight differentiation yet. I still saw my students treated unfairly by their professors. When I confront a professor for discriminating against the students, too often they become irritated. This is when I refer them to department head, who will explain to them their behavior is ag