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We are different yet the same! Stop Discrimination

Hello everyone! Oikawa is here again with a different article for you, and I hope you are all staying well. It has been a lovely year.  At least it was better than 2020 if you ask me, we may not be back to the usual way of living, and some restrictions may still be around, but I am glad that we can celebrate this season this year.  If there was one thing I noticed last year, we are all the same when it comes down to it because no matter how rich, intelligent, strong you are, we are all still humans, and I see no reason for us to discriminate against each other. When Covid started, everyone was practically on an equal level because we were all scared and didn't know if we would get it and spread it to our family members. It didn't matter if you were rich, or poor, ugly or beautiful, black or white, you still stood a chance of contracting it. When it comes down to it, whether we like it or not, we are all humans, and nothing truly makes us more special than the other person; it is only the situations we find ourselves in that make the difference. The only difference between rich and poor children is the family they were born into; they are still humans, but for some reason, society discriminates against poor children, and this is something you see often. This situation doesn't only happen to poor children, but we also see/ it in other areas, especially when someone seems to be diverting from societal norms. I once had a classmate who was **"Different,"** and by that, I meant he didn't like girls; instead, he liked boys, this sort of relationship is not accepted in my country, and it is frowned upon. Being **"Different,"** caused him a lot of trouble, especially in school when others found out, because he immediately got a lot of attention from the students, which was not positive attention. Every morning he came to school, he found his chair stolen and doodles on his desk, and the words they used were sometimes so hurtful that you would wonder if it were teenagers that wrote it. He was getting bullied daily; sometimes, he would go home without his uniform because they had stripped him of it.  He received many threats, some saying they would tell his parents and the whole school of his situation. The day finally came, and someone had told his parents about his problems, and you would think his parents would console him, but they only made things worse by criticizing and insulting him for being **"Different."** Now he didn't only get the hate and bullying from school, but he got it from his parents also, and this truly made things worse for him because he had no one to talk with, and everywhere he went, he only got criticized. For a teenager, this was too much for him to handle, and he ended up giving into his depression and committing suicide; he left a note that said, **"I hope you are happy now."** Everyone was sad at the news of his death, even the bullies who once told him to kill himself, and they even regretted doing all that to him; they claimed to have been playing with him and didn't think he would go that far. This scenario taught me some lessons: people would only care for you when you die, and discrimination is a serious problem we need to curb in our world. I see no reason for doing what they did to him, and I feel bad because I am just as guilty for not helping him when he was in that situation. People tend to talk and criticize others because they don't have the same views, but we should all learn to tolerate one another because even if we have different views, we are still humans. If we humans learn to tolerate and understand each other, then I am sure problems of this world could be fixed because when we are one, nothing can take us down. The only thing holding humanity back is the difference we find in ourselves, and that shouldn't be because we are the same. I hope someday we will understand ourselves and stop the discrimination because it has no benefit. Thank you for reading!

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