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Published on: 11/09/2019
Diversity and Discrimination
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1.
What do you mean by Scheduled Castes?
2.
Sometimes people make prejudiced comments in our presence. We are often not in a position to do anything about this because it is difficult to say something right then and there. Divide the class into groups and each group discuss what they could do in one of the following situations:
(i) A friend begins to tease a classmate because he is poor.
(ii) You are watching TV with your family and one of them makes a prejudicial comment about a particular religious community.
(iii) Children in your class refuse to share their food with a particular person because they think she is dirty.
(iv) Someone tells you a joke that makes fun of a community because of their accent.
(v) Some boys make remarks about girls not being able to play games as well as them.
Discuss in class what the different groups have suggested for the above situations and also talk about the problems that can come up when raising the issue.
3.
What does the Constitution say with regard to equality? Why do you think it is important for all people to be equal?
4.
Discuss in addition to the lower castes being discriminated against, there are also various other communities that are subject to discrimination. Can you think of a few other examples of discrimination?
5.
What is the difference between discrimination and stereotypes?
6.
Who is known as the father of Constitution of India
Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru
Dr. BR Ambedkar
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee
7.
The people of lower caste were not allowed to
enter the temples
sit with upper caste people
take water from the village well
All of the above
8.
Which of following states has less distance between school and home?
Maharashtra
Tamil Nadu
Ladakh
Kerala
9.
Which of the following group of people is called untouchables?
Stronger people
Worthy people
Unworthy people
Superior
10.
What term has been used for the disabled children?
Children with special needs
Ordinary
Generous
Weaker
11.
What were the demands of women?
12.
Where did Dr Ambedkar go at the age of 9 years?
13.
Name four occupations which are considered of less value in society?
14.
Who fought for the rights of Dalits?
15.
What is it, that all Indians can unite?
16.
Look again at the statements that you believed to be true about rural and urban life in India. Do you have a prejudice against rural or urban people ?
Find out if this is shared by others and discuss the reasons why people have these prejudices.
(i) More than 50%of all Indians live in villages.
(ii) Villagers do not care about their health. They are full of superstitions.
(iii) In peak harvesting and plantation seasons, families spend 12 to 14 hours in the fields.
(iv) Villagers are dirty and not hygienic.
17.
How did Dalits, women, tribals and peasants strive for equality?
18.
___________ stop us from looking at each person as a unique individual with his/her unique qualities.
19.
In Kerala over _________ percent of the teachers are women.
20.
Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar was one of the ______________of India.
21.
Caste rules were set which did not allow the so-called __________ to take on work other than what they were meant to do.
22.
The groups which were placed at the bottom of the ________________were seen as unworthy.
23.
We have more than 1600 languages that are people's mother tongues.
24.
Prejudice mean when we fix people into one image.
25.
Samir Ek and Samir Do were similar to each other in many ways.
26.
Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar belonged to Rajput community.
27.
Some people may experience both kinds of discrimination untouchable. Whether they are poor or untouchable
28.
She was not that well-off but had a dream
29.
One of the fastest athletes in the world.
30.
Two surgeons were sitting down to lunch when one of them made a call on the mobile phone
31.
Dr. Ambedkar
32.
Stereotype about girls
1.
Dalit is a term that people belonging to so-called lower castes use to address themselves. They prefer this word to 'untouchable'. Dalit means those who have been broken.
This word according to Dalits shows how social prejudices and discrimination have 'broken' the Dalit people. The government refers to this group of people as Scheduled Castes (SCs).
2.
(i) The classmate should be advised not to do.
(ii) I would stop him or her at the first instance.
(iii) They would be asked to see her qualities of head and heart and not of her dirtiness.
(iv) Advice.
(v) They would be asked not to do so because that is a stereotype and not the truth.
3.
The Constitution says the following with regard to equality:
Goods in the Constitution to ensure that all the people of India were considered equal. Everyone has equal rights and opportunities and to promote among them all. Government jobs are open to all people.
It is important for all people to be equal so that no person is discriminated against any other. \Vhen the society becomes casteless, there is no place for inequality.
4.
(i) Yes, I can think of a few other examples of discrimination. These are as follows:
(i) Dalits
(ii) Tribals
(iii) Handicapped
(iv) Disabled person
(v) Mentally unsound
5.
Differences between discrimination and stereotypes are as follow:
| Discrimination | Stereotypes |
| Discrimination happens when people act on their prejudices or stereotypes | When we fix people into one image we create a stereotype. |
| For example not letting a person belonging to Dalit community access the village well is a form of discrimination. | For example, when an entire group of people is considered as 'dirty' or 'unworthy' because its people belong to a particular community, it is a stereotype. |
6.
(b)
Dr. BR Ambedkar
7.
(a)
enter the temples
8.
(d)
Kerala
9.
(c)
Unworthy people
10.
(a)
Children with special needs
11.
( )
Women demanded that they should have as much a right to education as men did.
12.
( )
At the age of 9 years, Dr. Ambedkar went with his brothers and cousins to meet his father in Koregaon.
13.
( )
Cleaning, washing, cutting hair, picking garbage occupations are considered of less value in the society.
14.
( )
Dr. Ambedkar fought for the rights of the deprived people/Dalits.
15.
( )
It is equality of all persons that can unite all Indians.
16.
(i) It is not a prejudice but the government has given figures which show more than 50% Indians live in the villages.
(ii) Villagers care about their health. They go to the health centres, if they are sick and take the medicines given to them.
(iii) It is true and not a myth. They have to harvest the crops and store them in godowns. They also have to sow their fields, requires a lot of work.
(iv) It is not a prejudice. It is true because:
(a) Most of the villagers work in the fields from morning till evening and get dirty.
(b) Enough water is not available to them to bath regularly. They are not dirty the kind of work they do, makes them dirty and full of mud.
(c) Living in the city is expensive. A large part of people's earning is spent on rent and transport.
It is true that people have to pay rent for a house on exorbitant rates. They travel long distances to reach their places of work.
17.
The struggle for freedom from British rule also included within it the struggle of large groups of people who not only fought against the British but also fought to be treated more equally. Dalits, women, tribals and peasants fought against the inequalities they experienced in their lives. Many Dalits organised themselves to gain entry into temples. Women demanded that they should have as much a right to education as men did. Peasants and tribals fought to release themselves from the grasp of the moneylender and the high interest they were charged.
18.
( )
stereotypes
19.
( )
sixty
20.
( )
greatest leaders
21.
( )
untouchables
22.
( )
ladder
23.
(a)
24.
(b)
25.
(b)
26.
(b)
27.
(a)
28.
( )
to become an astronaut which she did.
29.
( )
suffers from chronic asthma.
30.
( )
to speak with her daughter who had just returned from school.
31.
( )
Father of Indian Constitution
32.
( )
They are well behaved.
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