PREJUDICE AND MINORITIES

The minorities seem to undergo some troubles in an office, in a class, in a town or in a country. Let us try to find out the truth. In every class or category of population, there may be 10% of troublemakers. Let us explore with an example.

There are 100 staff in an office. 90% of them are right handers (write with right hand). 10% of each category blame the others for mistakes in writing work. 10% of 90 persons is 9. Hence 9 persons will blame the minority 10 left handers. Most probably each day one left hander will be in trouble. But 10% of 10 is 1. Hence, just one left hander is there to blame all 90 right handers. On average, a right hander would go two years without being abused by a lefty. Equal percentage of abusers are there in each category. But it seems that, minority is affected a lot. There is a formula to measure the abuse.

The expected number of abusive incidents one group receives = other population * other population's rate of prejudice/ your population.
IN THE CASE OF LEFTIES
=90*10%/10 = 90*0.1/10
=9/10 =0.9
nearly one incident will take place (abusing lefthanders) in a period.
In the case of right handers:
=10*0.1/90
=1/90=0.01

There is a 0.01 chance for the right hander to get abused by the left handers. The formula clearly tells that the chance for abusive incident for right handers is very, very less.
How to improve the office atmosphere? We can employ more left handers, that is one way. But the real solution is to reduce the prejudice rate and for everyone to see the merits in other hand.
This principle can be employed in the case of gender differences, skin colour differences etc.

WHY WE HAVE SEGREGATED NEIGHBOUR HOOD?
Most of us are warm and friendly to others, regardless of skin colour or religious beliefs. But somehow our preferences led to segregated communities.
In a neighborhood, each group is perfectly happy so long as at least one in three of their immediate neighbors is like them. They like diversity, but if they feel heavily outnumbered, they move elsewhere... and before long, the community get segregated due to 'preference'. Hence, there is nobody to blame for segregation.

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