Undergraduate / Caste. Princeton Undergraduate Essay- How do we unlearn the practices of inequality? [6]

Reviews please. :)
UNLEARNING THE PRACTICES OF INEQUALITY
My teacher had just started taking a new chapter in World History. It was about Apartheid in South Africa; a system in which people were discriminated based on color. Being in the sixth grade, I was amused and found such racism to be 'silly' and 'childish'. I had never differentiated people based on color. But after that day, I began to see different colored people with different eyes.

I was filling up my school bio-data form. There was a sub-heading which read 'Caste'. My father filled it as 'SC'. I asked him what it meant. He said it stood for 'Scheduled Caste'. He then went on to tell me about the caste system and the practice of 'Untouchability'. He told me that we belonged to the Dalit Community, the most backward caste in the country. For centuries, we were socially oppressed, persecuted and forced to do menial tasks of upper caste people. We weren't even allowed to touch them. Although this practice was no longer in existence; the fact that I belong to a community which was once considered 'Untouchable' left me deeply depressed and disturbed. Admittedly, I began seeing my upper caste friends in a way I never saw them before.

I didn't know people could be discriminated based on color and birth. I was taught that.
No person is born with an impulse to hate. They learn to hate. Even in the time of Apartheid, no white man was born with hatred against the blacks instilled in him. No upper caste man was born with a natural tendency to be demeaning towards his inferiors. They were taught that by society.

When a person learns that his community had discriminated another, somewhere deep down, he starts feeling superior. He will no longer see people from the 'lower community' as his complete equals. He will only treat them equally thinking that he is 'being nice' and is doing them a 'favor'.

How to stop racism? Stop talking about it.
Think about it. Let's say one of your acquaintance is handicapped. What do you think would make her feel better? Constantly sympathizing with her or letting her live without mentioning her handicap to her?

When you stop mentioning something, it is destined to disappear and to be forgotten. Make no mention of Apartheid. People will forget that discrimination can take place based on color. Make no mention about gender atrocities. People will forget that a gender bias even existed. Make no mention of the caste system. People will forget about untouchability.

So, according to me, racism shouldn't me mentioned at all. It shouldn't be taught about in schools. Equality despite physical differences should be thought of to be as natural as trees being green. We don't constantly say, "The trees are green!", do we? Similarly, there shouldn't be a need to say, "Every person should be treated equally". It should come naturally, without question.

I believe every person is born with a natural capability to love. I am human. So are you. Therefore, I shall love you unconditionally regardless your nationality, race, religion, gender or sexuality. After all, you have the same red blood as I. You have the same number of eyes, the same number of legs as I. You are one of me. I cannot even think of bearing any ill for you. I shall feel love for you and love only.

These lessons of Universal Brotherhood and unconditional love should be taught to people. People can hate only if they know that it is possible to hate. Get rid of this possibility. Don't even mention hate practices. Keep them as hidden as Prester John's Land. It is only then can we truly unlearn the practices of inequality.