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In our reality, Portugal, those who take benefits from discrimination are, generally, the young white men.

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An act or instance of making a distinction; prejudicial treatment of people and groups based on characteristics such as race, gender, age or sexual orientation

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In discrimination, there are two groups of people: those who discriminate and those who are discriminated. The second group is composed by those who don't belong to the stereotype created by the society.

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Imagine that an owner of a company is looking for a new employee. He has four candidates: a woman, an african man, an old man and a young white man. Who do you think he will probably choose for the job? Obviously, the young white man, with a "normal" appearance or characteristics in the boss´s point of view.

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On the other side, there are also people who are harmed because of discrimination.

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Why didn´t the boss chose other person?
That's because all the other candidates have "problems".
The woman is considered inferior compared to men; besides that, most of the women get pregnant during their lives, so, if the woman was hired, she would probably need to take maternity leave.

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The african man has a different skin colour, different origin and different traditions. For that reason, the society put him aside, when all he wanted was an opportunity to have a job, which was going to lead to a stable and happy life.

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Finally, as we all know, retirement is one of the rights when we get older. So, if the owner of the company hired the old man, he would have to hire other employee a few years later.

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How does discrimination affects the life of people?

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How does discrimination affects the life of people?

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Discrimination affects a large group of people everywhere, so it influences the way they live their lifes and the way they interact with other people.
For some of the victims, it can be really hard to deal with discrimination, because they are not accepted by others (in jobs, friendships, daily tasks, etc.), which can lead them to stop following their dreams and being themselves.
For that reason, the "victims" become sad and sometimes problematic persons (with long life traumas) prejudicing the society in several levels.

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In our opinion, based on our experience and our interviews in Lisbon, everybody should have the same rights and everybody should live happy.
Furthermore, the people that you discriminate today can be the people who will save your life or make you happy one day later.
Concluding, the message that we want to leave is: Live your life and let the others live their lifes as they want. Be open minded and treat the others like you want they treat you, whatever their skin colour, race, religion, origin or sexual orientation; because, in the end, is the happiness that matters the most.

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Those are just a few examples of persons that are discriminated. There are many more types of people that suffer everyday because of that injustice, like persons with a mental or physical disability, with other religions or even persons that are not heterossexual (those who belong to the LGBT comunity).

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As always, change does not happen by itself. It is necessary to fight for equality, so the society starts to take discrimination more seriously and be aware of its consequences in the lifes of the victims.
In our point of view, there are many ways to alert people. A few examples are:

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More and more schools around the world talk about racism and discrimination to their students. This leads to a new generation more aware of the problems and less judgemental about other types of people.

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In our oppinion, traveling its one of the most effective ways to stop discrimination. Meet other cultures, its important, because when someone visits a completely diferent country, that person gets attached to those people. So, when the person arrives home, she would probably have more respect and consideration for other people.

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The most obvious example of this is the manifestations made by the LGBT community. Over time, we've heard a lot of people saying that what this community really wants is superiority, when, in fact, they are just trying to stop they're suffering.

We think that their message, due to discrimination, it's not accepted by the society, but when people start to open they're minds a little bit, they will understand.

So, doing manifestations it's a great way of showing people the reality of the persons that everyday are put on the fringes of the society.

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As we all know, elections are a very big deal, because that's when the nation choose who will be encharged of the country. So, we think that when someone is going to vote, it's really important that the person chooses the candidate based on his proposed measures for the combat of discrimination.

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For this assignment, we decided to go to Lisbon center and make some questions to the tourists about this theme.

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https://youtu.be/uO0H6YzZKWg

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Social privilege is an unearned advantage that some people have just because they possess "better" characteristics and conditions than the people that dont't belong to the stereotype.
It can be shown in many ways, like in the bylaws. For instance, my dad is a politician; in the future it´s easier for me to become a politician too.

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In our opinion, the people who are privileged don´t have the fault for the existence of discrimination, nowadays. But, what they can do, is aware the people around them, so the equality wins.
On the other hand, the people that discriminate are mostly the people that are privileged. So, as they don't feel discrimination, they don't do anything to prevent it.
Concluding, there are two types of privileged people: those who discriminate or do nothing to stop discrimination and those who try to help the people that are descriminated.

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Discrimination can also be a very dangerous thing, because the people who suffer can become violent. That leads to a discrimination by people who previously didn´t do that, but started doing it out of fear.

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If we go back and look to the history of the planet, we can conclude that our society suffered a big evolution. For example, in the World War II, the fascism was very recurrent and it was considered a normal thing; but now, if someone is a fascist, that person is automatically considered a bad person in the eyes of the society. Furthermore, Salazar, a portuguese dictator, had a slogan: "God, Homeland and Family". This means that everyone that lived in Portugal and had other religion, other motherland or other opinion about the role of the women in the family was punished.

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In summary of what we saw on the topic above, we can compare it with our reality and conclude that we are privileged to live in a time and country where discrimination is lowing. But, there´s still a lot of things that need to be changed.

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Even the sun shines equally for everyone

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Happiness has no colour

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We all bleed the same colour

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If only closed minds came with close mouths.

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Judging a person defines you, not them