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If we do, we are violatix�g Human Rights Article #12: No one shall be subjecied to attacks on his honor and reputation. We have no right to discriminate sorneone just by his or her exterior appearance. Including 1VIiddle�Eastern people, because they have as much reason and right to be anywhere as you. �eing inielligent and successfixl in school is good. Good grades. C'rood education. Good fizture. So, why are we ca�ling those who are exceedingly smari, such hurtful �aynes, such as "nerd" or "loser"? �s it jealousy? Or delight of being cruel? VVhatever it is, bright students are under assuxnption that they are "nerds" and that they are66L1TICOO�", without even knowing them. In school, they are avoided and shunr�ed. 'They �vere rejected in society before they could ever� get a chance to prove themselves friend-worthy or norrnal. They didn't have a say in any of these assurr�ptions. Instead, they stay quiet and accept the fact that because they are clever and too sharp-witted, the school co�nmmunity has turned their backs on them for no good reason and that they are labeled as the "geeks of the school". This damages several human rights. I.ike I�uman IZights Article #29: Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his/her own personality... purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights cznd freedoms of others and of ineeting the just requirements of morality, public order ancd the �eneral welfare in a derrcocratzc society. If someone were to be exceedingly intelligent, shouldn't we praise him/her, instead of labeling hirn or her such low names? In the past; women have overcome mar�y struggles and earned themselves rights and freedom, but even now, they aren't treated very equally. The stereotype of how "women are no good at sports" is a per%ct exaanple of modern sexism. �-ialf of our entire populations are women. We g�ined our rights and now we are close to standing on equal