Are people considered equal in the contemporary world?

Question

It suprise me when I see people treated differently while the world leaders always claim to fight racesm, gender inequalities and many more things.
For instance, the Africans are yet to see the result of these propagandas.

Answer 1

I don't think that people are treated like being equal,most of the times they are discriminated cause of they're skin color,they're religion or they're social status.Often people that have more money think that they're better than the others.For me it doesn't matter someones appearance it maters haw he looks inside.

Answer 2

It depends firstly what you mean by equality. There is equality of opportunity- ie to take an example off the top of my head, everyone running in a race gets to start at teh same time and is timed by the same method or there is equality of outcome ie if we knew you were slower than me, you would start running before me so that we both finished the race at the same time. Most of the world at the moment runs on systems which have ideas of equality of opportunity lieing behind them- consequently the fact there is variable wealth doesn't mean there is inequality in the sense that teh world leaders are talking about. The reasons for Africa who you mention not doing well are complex and historical- they lie in the fact that Africa historically has never been particularly wealthy (there are exceptions the Kingdom of Timbuktoo in the 14th Century and Ancient Egypt), imperialism obviously, and bad governments since the second world war. It used to be the case that other governments would give aid indiscriminately to Africa but now there has been an alteration in philosophy because much of that aid was used to fund the lives of the leaders of the regimes nad not the poorest people- so now aid is only given to governments that actually care about their people. This is a really incomplete and bad answer but I hope it goes someway to answering some of your points

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Answer 3

Theoretically people are considered equal; practically, they're not. There has always been discrimination, because the human mind is subjectively built, and if it was brought up in a wrong mentality it can not treat everyone equal. I don't think anyone could ever eliminate discrimination, even with all the laws and educational programs.

Answer 4

No. Our leaders may fight the good fight against racism but its
the general public that has to change.

Answer 5

equality is hard...first you need to figure out what kind of equality your looking for...everyone has certain "equalities"...like we are free to do whatever we want...sadly we may be punished for some of the things we wanted to do...if your looking for equal protections then nope sry none for no one...we will protect so and so against this and we will allow this on them and we will help him hurt her because she hurt him in the past...too much greed...cant be equality...doesnt mean we shouldnt all try :)

Answer 6

i dont think so as people are still in racisum and bullying and war

Answer 7

Money is the answer....Money makes people go mad....