Discrimination

I despise from the bottom of my heart any sort of discrimination whether it is based on racial, ethnic, gender, religion, or identity. Any form of discrimination is representing the most primitive act of our behavior.
One of the shameful disgrace that the humanity is still struggling to accept the equality between the different races, and nationalities and religions.
Accepting the others regardless to their colors and believes are still far from being a global well established concept or moreover practice.
Recently in Egypt we have faced renewed sectarian clashes where the rejection of the mutually living and sharing with the "other" was the main norm.
The society which can not endorse all its factions and sectors is a weak society and it's not capable to accept the differences. It is a major weakness point.
Everybody talks about establishing the state of law and justice but when it comes to practice our basic and primitive bias are surfacing and the principles are compromised.

Toppling the regime was easier than toppling our taboo legacy differences and we need to conquer our narrow minded rejection of the others and endorse it under the shared interest and the mutual respect of life and rights.

I can tell about dozens and dozens of situation where I've seen the discrimination is still essential component of our daily life.
I've experienced it in the workplace where the nationalities belonging to the developed countries are treated different from the unlucky nationalities who are belonging to the developing countries.
I was standing in the visa queue in one of the Arabian gulf states airport and I was requested to leave it and join another queue because of my passport identity.
I spent three hours in the airport to pass the entry gates!!.
When I shared this painful experience with my western colleagues I knew they was instructed to be queued in separate lane dedicated for the western countries.

Add to that how the Asian maids are treated and house servants and the black Africans . the list will be so long if you want to point to the discrimination situations.

Unfortunately the discrimination is still deeply rooted in our cultural system and our mindset.

I consider it very primitive and very stupid to judge and stereotype the people based on the most baseless and non-sensible categorization system the humanity has ever used.

In my perspective the most negative impact of this ugly practice is the losses of a real added value to the community and to the society by aliening them and losing the social peace and creating unhealthy hatred environment.
This has destroyed and damaged a lot of communities.

If you want to measure how civilized the community, then measure their level of discrimination.

Strauss Kahn

Attempted rape and unlawful imprisonment. Those are the allegations against Strauss Kahn.
Regardless to the conspiracy theories and the media footage, I was impressed with this incident.
Arresting IMF chief accused with attempted rape of hotel servant is not common event.
This is how I perceived the incident. African migrant working as a hotel servant and was harassed and even attacked by a president ranked profile.
This case would remain as a theoretical case in the majority of the current world.
In USA, the justice system acted in a full unbiased way and they arrested him a normal accused person.
Applying the law blindly on the person no matter his position is the real justice people are striving to get.
No political consideration and no emotional consideration and no other consideration.
In my country they would cover up the situation as an unquestioned normal practice.
It is very satisfying to leave in the state of the law where law is the only superior power.
I I'm american I would feel proud with this justice system.
Now in Egypt these questions are raised and people are divided to emotional who wants to put some exceptions here and there for the previous rulers and the other side wants to implement the law literally as is.

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I was transferred recently from Indonesia to Kuwait and this will require a new effort in the settlement like housing, schooling, geographical locations, etc..
I found out that there are couple of forums websites where people who are sharing the same interest could exchange the knowledge and the best practices about it.
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