Discrimination is any violation of the principle of equality. In law, the "principle of equality" is also called "principle of non-discrimination". The principle of non-discrimination is the corollary of the fundamental principle of equality in dignity and rights …show more content…
Indeed, the phenomenon was born in a leveled society, in at the time of kingdoms where kings had all the privileges including life and death penalties over the population. Then came the time of religious dogma, which granted to the heads of church authority to decide on the conformity of individuals before the Gods (e.g. the inquisition remains the most abominable scourge of Christian history). The combination of the two factors mentioned above and economic difficulties are thus the reason or the philosophical principle that will allow western nations to pretend domination and certain superiority over other civilizations, racially and culturally different. At this level, I evoke the paradigm of slavery in Africa and Asia… four hundred years later, slavery was officially declared abolished in the United States and the paradigm of equality was born. Unfortunately the concept and the application did not look in the same direction. The battles fought by Malcolm X (1965), Martin Luther (1964) and Rosa Parks (1955) have shown the real gap between the perception of the universal convention of human rights and the personal or individual or collective apprehension of humanity in front of people from different race, culture and