Oppression

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The paper attempts to study the different forms of oppression, such as sexism, racism, classism, and nationalism, and presents a comparative analysis of these discriminatory and oppressive systems. It also attempts to study the interlocking and operation of the oppressive forces in societies and discusses the steps involved in the elimination of oppression.

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"Before defining and differencing the different forms of oppression it would be worthwhile to understand clearly the concepts of discrimination and oppression. Discrimination relates to "a way of organizing relations between groups of humans which serves to keep one group economically and politically disadvantaged as compared with another," where as oppression implies ?any way in which humans as individuals or as groups, are treated with less than complete respect.? [McCullough, 1993:6] Discrimination is also understood as the process by which the members of a socially defined group are treated differently or rather unfairly because of their membership in the particular group."

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