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As everyone knows, Peru is a country with a lot of diversity. And not only because of the beautiful landscapes, interesting traditions or delicious food, our country is essentially multiethnic, but with one of the most contagious and deadly social diseases. Which is known as discrimination.

Although our country has a diverse population, it seems that most Peruvians ignore it, since we can see, for example, powerful people such as presidents, ministers, famous people, etc., who tend to make many derogatory and disrespectful comments to people who according to them find inferior for various causes such as skin colour, beliefs, behaviour, etc. However, it is important to mention that not only the people with more resources in our country discriminate. But, worst of all, we do nothing to change our real situation, and people who practice this poisonous activity are not aware of the damage they do to society. As if this were not enough, millions of people are excluded every day from extremely important areas such as schools, health services, jobs, opportunities and other spaces that could improve their lives, a person's basic needs to survive.

As we have previously realised and read, discrimination is not new or exclusive to this century. Another example of this would be the constant feminist struggle, since historically women had no rights and their value was minimised to being a "housewife", they were prohibited from speaking, voting, working, etc. Although it is true that we have made progress in this regard, to this day women continue to be discriminated against in various areas such as work, receiving a lower salary than male competition or harassed by the way we dress, receiving insults and vulgar nicknames, etc.

It is really surprising how a large part of our population claims to have been discriminated against at least once in their lives. The practice of discrimination appears in many different ways, in most cases people use phrases that are very common in our country, however, they have a discriminatory background. Have you ever heard certain phrases such as... "you look like a cholo", "despite being black, you are attractive", "you don't appear to be from the sierra", etc. We have no doubt that yes, society has made us internalise this type of behaviour. However, we have time to be able to improve and work on what we know is wrong.

In this blog we will seek to explain how these problems affect the progress of our country, we will see how we have normalised the fact that Peruvian society discriminates against people depending on their income, ethnic group, social ranks, gender, culture, etc. Likewise, we want to raise awareness of our national reality by opening our minds and eyes, seeing different perspectives on the subject and trying to instill value and encourage a change of mentality for the generations that are the future of our nation and thus be able to understand the famous phrase "Whoever does not know their history, is condemned to repeat their mistakes."