The language of social discrimination
kathmandupost.com · Fri Jul 17 15:06:02 UTC 2020
Language is a social divider. But as much as it can divide society, it can also unite it.
The use of discriminatory language has been practiced in almost all cultures of the world. There are socio-politically constructed divisions of society such as "low caste" communities, "lower class" communities, "inferior" women, and the "backward" Orient. These are the categories deliberately used by "high caste" communities, "upper class" communities, "superior" men, and the "advanced" Oxidant. So the former are labeled with derogatory terms whereas the latter have to be addressed with honorific terms. This type of language use causes an unnatural division in human society of humans who are born equal in the eye of nature but are constructed as unequal for one reason or the other.
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