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Much social discrimination and prejudice is attributed to homosexuals in Singapore.
Recently this year, there has been quite an outcry following Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong’s disclosure that declared homosexuals would no longer be rejected for ‘sensitive jobs’ – later, he mentioned ‘government positions’ as some of these jobs. ...
I managed to stumble upon an article in Female magazine about this issue of homosexuals in Singapore finally getting their fair share of acceptance, thus this article will be my “real world” example of one of the concepts that I had learned during my lectures, which is, discrimination, and in this case, homosexual discrimination.
This article for instance, distinctively shows that homosexuals here are looked at differently by the masses in Singapore. ... Even up till now, despite the government’s new liberal stance towards hiring homosexuals and the acceptance of them in our Singaporean community, he still gets looked at weirdly and disgustedly by fellow Singaporeans when he walks in shopping malls or on the streets.
Can something de done to society that can change our mindset of homosexuals? ...
Application Analysis
We can thus look into Chapter 16 to further understand why society deems herself to act in such ways towards a certain group of people, like in relation to this article: where homosexuals are treated indifferently in their work environment or outside of their work environment even after the new liberal stance by the government. ... We cannot blind to the talent of homosexuals just because of their sexual orientation– how does being gay affect one’s work? ...
Discrimination and prejudice, that is the climax of this essay. What is discrimination? ... It relatively has the same definition as discrimination, only it is a negative attitude directed towards people because they are members of a specific social group.
Approximate Word count = 1471
Approximate Pages = 5.9
(250 words per page double spaced)
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