9. Discrimination

 A. WARMER

All of us are equal. But some people think they are superior to others on the basis of nation, religion, caste or gender. They discriminate. How would you feel if you are discriminated on these grounds?

Read this poem and find out the pain that the poet feels.

Word Meaning

All of us: हम सब, Equal: बराबर, some: कुछ, people: लोग, Think: सोचना, Superior: बेहतर, on the basis of: के आधार पर, Nation: राष्ट, Religion: धर्म, caste: जाति, Gender: लिंग, Colour: रंग, Discriminate: भेद भाव करना, Feel: महसूस करना, Ground: आधार, 

Let's read the poem

Walk through the hall With every eye on me
Surrounded by four walls
As far as I can see Snickers, sneers, and laughter
Discrimination too
Taunted from on after
Because I'm not like you I'm different so you shun me

Leave me standing in the rain
You hurt me though you see
That I am in pain I hate discrimination
Among the world I see If we are all one nation
Why discrimination against me?

JANET S. WATFORD

Word Meaning:

Walk: टहलना, through: के द्वारा, hall : बड़ा कमरा, surrounded: घिरा हुआ, wall: दिवाल, as far as: जितनी दूर तक, snickers: उपहास, sneers: हँसी उड़ाना, laughter: हंसी, taunted: ताना मारना, Different: अलग, shun: से दूर रहन, leave: छोड़ना,  standing: खड़ा होना, hurt : चोट पहुँचाना, pain : दर्द, कष्ट, Hate: घृणा करना, among: के बीच, world: संसार, इस: यदि, against: के विरुद्ध, glossary: शब्दावली

TEXT QUESTIONS AND THEIR ANSWERS

B. COMPREHENSION:
B.1. Think and Tell:

Q. 1. Why is a person discriminated?
Ans. A person is discriminated because he is not like others.

Q. 2. Why should we not discriminate between man and man?
Ans. Because we all are man and have born similarly. The nature does not discriminate among us. He gives everything to all without discriminated. So, we people should not discriminate man and man.

B.2. Think and write:

B.2.1. Answer briefly:

Q. 1. How did the discriminated person feel when he walked through the hall?
Ans. When the discriminated person walked through the hall every eyes stored on him and snickers, sneers and laughter so he felt pain.

Q. 2. Why does the poet feel hurt?
Ans. The poet feels hurt because he was not like the others present in. the hall and shun him.

B.2.2. Answer in not more than 50 words.

Q. 1. How do some people treat others who are not like them?
Ans. Some people treat discrimination to the other who are not like this. They snicker, sneer and laughter on these. They also shun on these.

Q. 2. Why does the poet hate discrimination?
Ans. The poet thinks all persons are the people of one nation. The world is for all and the nature has no discrimination among his creation. So, the poet hates discrimination.

Q. 3. What do you feel when you experience discrimination?
Ans. A man has no propriety to discriminate between different individuals. Everybody take a birth in the lap of nature. So, when anybody make any discrimination it is felt very nonsense because everybody in the world is peculiar. It is difficult to explain how an individual is superior or inferior to the other. So, I feel discrimination unwise.

C. WORD POWER:

C.1. Go through the text again and guess the meaning of the following words:

Surrounded,   Snickers, Sneers,    Taunt,   Hurt

Ans. Surrounded – encircled.
Snickers – to laugh in a half, suppressed, disrespectful manner.
Sneers – to curl the lip or smile in a manner that show scorn.
Taunt – a sneer.
Hurt – injure a person’s feelings.

C.2. Use the following words in the sentences of your own:
        As far as, discrimination, different, nation, shun

Ans.
As far as      – As far as I see there is no end of the earth.
Discrimination- There is no place of discrimination among the human beings.
Different – There is different kinds of persons in our society.
Nation – We are the subject of one nation.
Shun – We should not shun any one on the basis of nation, religion, caste or gender.

D. LET’S RHYME

In this poem there are rhymed words which close with the same sound;
e.g. see, me
Think and write rhyming words for the following:
too              moo              ……….            ……….            ……….
see              fee                ……….            ……….            ……….
hall            call                ……….            ……….            ……….
shun           fun               ……….             ………             ……….
rain           pain              ……….              ……….           ……….
So             go                  ………..             ……….             ………

Ans.
Too           Moo                   ZOO                   You                WOO
See            Fee.                    Me                      Thee                  He.
Hall           Call                    Boll                     Roll                 Doll
Shun          Fun                  Bun                      Run                 Gun
Rain           Pain                 Gain                     Lain                Main
SO             Go                    Rho                       Lo                     No

D. LET’S TALK AND WRITE

Q. Prepare a two minutes speech on the topic.

‘Untouchability Is a Crime against Humanity’

Hints: (all men equal ….. favoring one bad ……. bad against one also bad …….. all should live in harmony ……… wrong to look down upon.)
Ans. Ladies and gentlemen! I have cause to speak on the given topic ‘Untouchability is a crime against humanity’. I think it is true. We all are the creation of nature. The nature born us in similar condition. He gives us air, water and light without making any difference among us. The earth gives us grains having no difference among us. The trees never ask the persons who sit under their shade, their religion, castes and nation. The flowing rivers never differentiate among the poor and the rich. We take breath in open air, we use according to our requirement sun light. We fulfill our need of water without any pressure. So, we human beings how differentiate among us. We discriminate among us on the basis of nation, religion, caste and gender. It is not true. We all are the human beings the creation of nature. We should not discriminate among us. Really it would be the crime against humanity.

E. TRANSLATION:

E.1. Translate into your mother tongue:
I hate discrimination. . मैं भेदभाव से नफरत करता हूँ
I’m not like you. मैं तुम जैसा नहीं हूँ
I am in pain. मैं कष्ट में हूँ ।
We are all one nation. हम सभी एक राष्ट्र हैं ।
Why do you discriminate against me? तुम मेरे प्रति भेदभाव क्यों रखते हो ?