Diversity and Discrimination Question Answers: NCERT Class 6 Social Science - Social and Political Life

The stereotype that girls are burden on their parents affect the lives of a daughter in following ways:
1. They are not taken care properly. The parents do not look after the daughter properly and asks her to manage her problems. They expect that the daughter will not share anything including her feelings in the society.
2. The parents get the daughter married early because they think she is burden on them and by making her bride they think that their burden will be less.
3. They are not allowed to attend school. Their parents think that there is no need of sending them to school and also thinks that it is a wastage of money and time as well.
4. They are engaged in household works. Their family members think that girls are only for handling household works like cooking, mopping and sweeping etc.
5. They are not allowed to play or go outside the house as well as they are not allowed to talk with boys. Parents and the other mates thinks that if girls will talk with boys, society will make fun of her family and this is a shameful thing if she play with any boy, the society creates stereotype against her. Hence, keeping this orthodox mentality in mind the parent does not allow girls to go outside the house.

With regards to equality, the constitution says “Every person is equal before the law”. It is important for all the people to be equal so that they do not have discrimination against each other. Then every citizen have equal rights and opportunities. There will be no creation of any type of stereotype or prejudice. If there will be no inequality then every person will be able to express his/ herself clearly in front of society without feeling uncomfortable or being reluctant in expressing their thoughts to others. The children will able to study and they will not face any problem in talking with other children whether they are rich or higher caste.

(a) When a friend begin to tease a classmate because of his poorty then I will ask him/ her not to tease him. And, I will try to make my friend understand that every person is equal and we should not discriminate anyone or create any type of issue about their poorty. Instead of teasing him, we should help him and treat him equally like others. I will support the classmate and try to explain my friend that he/ she should support him, help him in studies and to encourage him. If he/she will tease him in any way then he will feel lack of confidence. I will make sure that from my words, no one get hurts neither my friend or nor my classmates. I would just try to make them understand that every person should be treated equally.

(b) If my family members make prejudicial comment about a particular religious community then I will stop them and will tell them that creating prejudice against any religion is insult of that religious community. Every religious community will only respect our religion when we will respect and support their religious community.

(c) If children of my class refuse to share their food with a particular person because of her dirtiness then, firstly I will share my food to her. And, then I will make them to say sorry to her and I will tell my classmates that no one is dirty. If someone is dirty, so that is you and your thinking.

(d) If someone makes fun of any community on the basis of their accent then, I will stop him/ her and tell them that every region has their own language and making fun of their language is equal to making fun of them and their region too. We should not make fun of any language and should always respect every language.

(e) If someone makes remarks that girls do not have capability to play with boys then I will make them understand that girls are not weak and can play with boys as well. And, I will ask them not to discriminate anyone on the basis of their gender. Everyone should have given equal rights and opportunities and the girls have equal rights to play with boys.