The term segregation refers to one of the most traditional and persistent social problems of Humanity and which consists of the separation or marginalization that someone, a group, makes against another or others as a consequence of race, culture, ideology or the gender they hold.
Separation or marginalization that is carried out against someone because of their racial origin, their age, their sex, their ideology, among others
Segregation is the act of separating and generating divisions within the social groups that make up a community. It is based on the concept that individuals are different in a pejorative sense, which is why some (considered superior) do not want to maintain contact with those they consider inferior. Segregation can occur in a society with respect to foreigners who inhabit the same space as the natives.
However, in some cases segregation can also occur between different social groups within the same community, for example with humble people.
Throughout the history of Humanity, man has always presented a tendency to generate the idea of social, political, economic or cultural hierarchies that derive in some more or less rooted form of segregation. In addition, other factors such as fear or insecurity are also essential to encourage one part of society to segregate another, even if these factors are unfounded.
clear manifestation of violence
It is clear that segregation is a form of violence that is very difficult to reverse because it is not directly related to physical violence (although it can involve it) but rather has to do mainly with attitudes of contempt towards those seen as inferior.
Racial, ethnic, cultural or social segregation always supposes a separation and in some cases it can imply confinement in closed spaces or in very small environments to a large amount of the population.
Nowadays, segregation is seen as a direct damage to the life of the human being, for which reason it is contemplated that when an act of segregation occurs, Human Rights are being violated.
However, in practice, despite the fact that Western societies have made great progress on this problem, the complexity of current multicultural societies and some Eastern cultures mean that this issue has not completely disappeared and that cases of it continue to be seen. extreme segregation, which with so much progress of humanity is certainly extemporaneous.
Segregation today: the case of Pakistani student Malala Yousafzai
For example, we cannot ignore the case of Arab cultures that to this day continue to consider women at a lower level than men and for instance not only force them to cover themselves from head to toe but also prohibit them from performing of activities and tasks so common for women in the West such as studying and working because the societies in which they are established are so macho that they consider the same practices purely masculine.
Obviously, women who dare to defy these prohibitions can suffer tremendous and violent punishments.
One of the most remembered cases in recent years due to its bloody and cruel nature was the attack suffered by the young Pakistani Malala Yousafzai, who was attacked by the Taliban regime when she attended school because it had prohibited women from attending school. classes and Malala was a staunch defender of her rights.
She had created a blog in which she wrote under a pseudonym and in it she recounted the humiliation to which Pakistani women were subjected.
She was 15 years old when in 2012 several bullets were fired into her body and she was seriously injured. The motivation for that attack was obviously that social activism that she had undertaken years before in favor of women’s education.
His recovery was long and took place in England, a country in which he settled with his family since the Taliban regime swore death to his family.
Today, at the age of 19, Malala is a world leader in peace and in the fight against female segregation. She has been awarded various prizes, including the Nobel Peace Prize, one of the most relevant in the world, received in 2014 when she was 17 years old, and with this she held the record of being the youngest person to receive it in regarding the history of the award.
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