Ethnic discrimination in terms of human psychology

Unfortunately, people are often exposed to the ethnic discrimination. Specifically, Azerbaijan, my country, is full of people who group others based on their ethnicity and origin. There are respective stereotypes regarding each region: for instance, if someone is from region X, he or she tend to be jealous and mean. Today, I want to share my findings with you as a result of my investigations concerning the psychological causes of the given prejudicial thinking way.

In my opinion, the main offensive force leading people to unfairly group others on their ethnicity is the easiness of it. It is so difficult for humans to implement individualist approach, requiring demanding effort to know others personally, in their lives (Scientifically, humans generally choose the easier option even despite the fact that it results in destructive outcome).Instead, it is much easier for human beings to have certain prejudgments in order to spend less time and energy by not obsessing with their characters a lot.

However, this is the issue that all humans should not choose an easier path. The ethical revolutions of our modern era require everyone to judge others for their personal character traits and thoughts, not for their origin and country. But still some Eurasia and Middle Eastern countries are suffering from ethnic discrimination. How to tackle the problem here?

The best approach to get rid of prejudicial thinking way is empathy. It is the main way widely utilized in the psychology with the purpose of understanding others` problems and taking promising actions against them. When humans were emphatic toward the ones being subject to ethnic discrimination, they would ultimately find the biased assumptions in the action done.

To sum up, points above have discussed the provided topic from several aspects, in which case some causes are explained. The most preventative measure to take is being emphatic in the instances of racial, ethnic and gender discrimination or bullying, triggering the disastrous effects for everyone and, most essentially, for our common brotherhood.

This article is entirely written with my own conclusions;thus, it does not contain any reference part.