UNDERSTANDING DIVERSITY AND DISCRIMINATION.pptx

Understanding Diversity and discrimination. Grade 6 Civics

1. UNDERSTANDING DIVERSITY AND DISCRIMINATION

2. - Can you name any four differences among the students? - Can you name any four similarities among the students?

3. Along with diversity inequality also prevails in the society. The inequality can be social, economic or political .

4. C aste system According to this, society was divided into different groups depending upon the work that people did and they were supposed to remain in those groups. So if you were living in  Vedic age  and your parents were potters, you could only become a potter, nothing else. This system was considered irreversible.

5. What caused diversity? In search of new lands. New places to settle in. For trade. Natural calamities. For work. War. Physiographic division and climate.

6. UNITY IN DIVERSITY India’s diversity has always been recognised as a source of its strength. When the British ruled India, women and men from different cultural, religious and regional backgrounds came together to oppose them. India’s freedom movement had thousands of people of different caste, colour and creed.

7. They worked together to decide joint actions, they went to jail together, and they found different ways to oppose the British. Interestingly the British thought they could divide Indians because they were so different, and then continue to rule them. But the people showed how they could be different and yet be united in their battle against the British.

8. Prejudice  means to judge other people negatively or see them as inferior. When we think that only one particular way is the best and right way to do things we often end up not respecting others,For example, if we think that English, our mother tongue, is the best language and other languages are not important, we are judging these other languages negatively. As a result, we might not respect people who speak languages other than English.

9. People prejudiced about many things: people’s religious beliefs, the colour of their skin, the region they come from, the accent they speak in, the clothes they wear etc. Often, our prejudices about others are so strong that we don’t want to form friendships with them.

10. S tereotype When we fix people into one image we create a  stereotype . When people say that those who belong to a particular country, religion, sex, race or economic background are “stingy” “lazy,” “criminal” or “dumb,” they are using stereotypes.

11.  Stereotypes stop us from looking at each person as a unique individual with his or her own special qualities and skills that are different from others .

12. Discrimination happens when people act on their prejudices or stereotypes.

13. Discrimination happens when : -  If we do something to put other people down. - If we stop some people from taking part in certain activities or taking up certain jobs, or stop them from living in certain neighbourhoods. - If we prevent some people from taking water from the same well or hand pump, or not allow them to drink tea in the same cups or glasses as others.

14. Mahatma Gandhi , the father of the nation, was a great social reformer. He raised his voice against this inhuman practice. He even stopped using the word untouchable and called them  Harijan . He used to stay in Harijan colonies. The national movement led by him provided a common platform to all the people, irrespective of their caste or religion.

15. Dr Ambedkar fought for the rights of the Dalit community. He was born into the Mahar caste, which was considered untouchable. The  Mahars   were poor, owned no land and children born to them also had to do the work their parents did .

16. They were not allowed to live in main village . In spite of adverse conditions he completed his college education and went to England to become a lawyer. He encouraged Dalits to send their children to school and college. He also urged Dalits to take on different kinds of government jobs in order to move out of the caste system. He led many efforts of Dalits to gain entry into temples. Later in life, he converted to Buddhism in his search for a religion that treated all members equally.