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-L rin Birdsall " - -A -- 11 r ul-Kvie—W Ms. Schmidt 2 d plaCe Understanding the Discrimination in Our World. As Harper Lee 1ATote In her novel To Kill a MqLkin b I think there's just one kind, of folks,, Folks." If she is rIght, the why do we discriminate? If hunians are all the same, then why do we act on the unimportant differences that make us all unique? D1* sicrimination 'is a plositive or negative treatment, or making a distinction, of a person or thing based on the category the person belongs in, not their individual self. If she 'is right, they we have no grounds to Judge others who on, the inside are just like us. Itisacurse . A that, we pliague upon ourselves, but there are reasons why we discriminate. The reasons that discrimination still exists 'in our modern world is because there is fearl, lack of enforcement, and lack of understanding among d1iffierent groups of people. People fear difference and change. If we fear others, then we cannot have a chance of having a, positive opinion of them. Have you ever gotten really seared at another person, maybe a bully? After you feel the fear, you begin to feel angry. This anger can then be directed to people you feel to be similar to, the bully, his friends, or maybe people whin looks like them. Fear 'is a vicious cyclie that 'is very hard to end because the fear is ispricad just as easily as gossip in a middle school. Actually, the fear can be spread as gossip. The fear of change s very similar. Most humans have some fear of change, from a new government regiine, to parents getting remarried, to a new pair shoes", change can be scary. In our envirorunent we generally I 'Ike things to �stay the same, so when change comes.,, we can make Judgments about the person who is inflicting the change, If one of your parents' new spouse is, let's just say, not your ideal parent, then you might be seared ,of the upcoming change. Again, you might be afiraid of people like them. There is a way