"Man is born free but he is in chains everywhere."
- Rousseau
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The world we live in is never a free world. I laugh hard anytime I hear folks arguing otherwise. These folks believe that they are free because they are not behind bars. They fail to understand that there are laws everywhere and social expectations that guide our behaviors, thereby hindering our freedom. We are all prisoners from birth to death, at the very least.
However, if the world was a free place and I had the freedom to live as I wished, I would love to be judged based on the contents of my character not by the colour of my skin nor my social class. I would love to be judged by my personal attributes; not by my religion nor ethnicity.
In my teenage years, I was denied admission to study Law based on my ethnic affiliation. Although I hold a Masters degree in Criminology today, I still feel the pain to this very moment. If I lived in a free world, I will prefer that words such as white, black, class, gender, age, country, religion, etc go moribund so that people can be judged for whom they really are rather than being unfairly discriminated against because of the 'group' they have been stereotypically placed.
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