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How Society acts towards designated 'OTHERS'

  For the last few days , I am reading  the book OTHERNESS . In a world increasingly divided along the lines of colour, despite its apparent modernity , this book makes a hard  look at the realities that lurk within us , both as individuals and as a society. Why are we judged and discriminated based on gender , skin, colour , nationality or many other things ? As I was going through this book and its name OTHERNESS always striking my mind hard ,  a question pondered my mind . And I thought who would be able to answer it better than the author of this book OTHERNESS . So I requested the author of the book to submit a guestpost on my blog in answer to my question. Here it goes:— As an individual, how do you see OTHERNESS amongst males, females and the third sex?   This is not an easy answer and neither will it be easy for the querent to understand if the querent is not aware of Pierre Bourdieu’s sociological theories.  Although the question is somewhat right (as I am not...