NCERT Important Questions Class 10 Social Science Civics Chapter 3
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Chapter 3 Democracy and Diversity
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Do you agree that a person has more than one identity and can belong to more than one social group? Give example in support of your answer.
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Every social difference does not lead to social division. Social differences divide similar people but at the same time can unite very different people. People belonging to different social groups share differences and similarities cutting across the boundaries of their group. For example, what happened at Mexico Olympic. Carlos and Smith were African- Americans and were similar but Norman was different’ He was white and an Australian’ However, one similarity among three was that they were all athletes who were against racial discrimination. This similarity brought them together. Thus every social difference does not lead to social division but they also unite very different people.
It is true that a person has more than one identity and can belong to more than one social group’ For example, there are people of different communities in every religion. A person may be a Hindu, belonging to upper caste or lower caste, rich or poor, a labourer or a landlord, literate or illiterate. It is also possible that people from different religions may have the same caste and feel close to each-other. Thus a person has more than one identity and can belong to more than one social group.
All of us have identities in different contexts e.g., at home, in school, in the city, nation and internationally. For example at home you could be a son, in school a student, in city a resident of your colony and so on. A person has an identity by birth i.e., female, tall and dark but is urban if he lives in a city’ Therefore, different identities are possible in different contexts.