After reading the letters from Birmingham Prison and Prison and have the Monday class, I'm always considering the way to eliminate the discrimination. It's no doubt to say that this must undergo a long process. But how we can do more effectively? As Martin Luther King said, people should immediately engage in a nonviolent direct-action program to pursue racial justice or some other equality treatment. Why need direct action? Because this way can bring pressure and create tension in the society. People who face the discrimination need to repress emotions in nonviolent ways to avoid seeking expression through violence. Therefore, I think the proper way to eliminate discrimination is the significant thing people should think about it.

In the Monday class, some classmates motioned the discrimination between men and women in China. This is the fact that in the past days China has the serious discrimination of gender because the social background and ideology. I have to say that such discrimination still exists, not only in rural but also in big city.

In the rural, some people always have the old ideology that boys can do more thing than the girls. Boys should study and work and girls only need to do the housework and get married. I'm very surprise when I talk such discrimination to my friend. Her father is from a small village where most people never go outside the village. After the family members knew my friend's mom gave birth to a daughter, they were very angry and no one likes my friend because she is a girl. The reason is that they believe that when one mom give birth to the first baby is a girl, she will not only give birth to the second baby is a girl, but also influence other members in this family--make other "moms" have a girl. Girls cannot support the family. Girls are weak in all aspects than boys. Such “son preference" let her father's family members