What are the social consequences of discrimination and inequality and in what ways can we reduce their threat in society. Analyze the subject using references in Sociology and your Cypriot experience.

I have to admit that for such a small island, we have managed through the years to overcome many obstacles, political issues, war, and social difficulties that shook the core of our own existence. Somehow, we always find a way and we manage to overcome our problems and survive no matter how big or small the problem was. At the end of the day, its privilege to stumble and fall but then be able to get up and move on.
Some others would disagree and say that, even though we are fighters, we lack the ability to adjust and accept the social changes that occurred as the years gone by. Maybe our mentality is probably different from the rest in Europe.
We used to be a sole and compact nation of Greek Cypriots. There was a time that the only thing you could hear was the Greek language, the only thing you could see, meet and socialize with was the Cypriots.
However, our necessity to evolve, adapt to the new trends and the new order of things changed the way we think and function. It was then when the new ethnicities started to emerge. It began slowly as Cypriots start looking for house cleaners, especially from the Asian countries that would give an extra hand to the household, for minimum wage and ease the way of life in every family. Unfortunately what started as a necessity, fast enough became a trend.
And that’s when it all began. The first collision between our ethnicity and theirs. We were not ready back then to accept and respect the difference, between theirs and us. Even though many Cypriot families had a good reason for hiring house cleaners from overseas, some others showed nothing but respect to those that needed the money and would work like slaves to please