”Inferiority” a word and feeling which is hated and accepted at the same time by a person or an entity who is vulnerable of internal dilemmas or external atrocities either physical or psychological. In this world, every person or entity is subject of compassion by individuals, society, organisations, nations etc. Based on these comparison one decide the inferiority and superiority of another person. And it depend on the person (subject of comparison) that he accept the parameter of comparison or judgment of a person about his worth and quality.
No other person can understand the worth of a person than that person him/herself. In India, where women worth is measured from her sexuality. A rape victim women is tagged as characterless and wonton.Instead of encouraging and supporting that person, society declared her worthless and honorless. Now that woman is inferior to other woman , though , It should not be forget women are considered inferior breed in general.Same was true with Suzette Jordan, who fight for justice not only for herself, but for other girls and women too.
Every person and entity has their own quality, their worth, and talent. No two person are same. In a world, where physical strength have immense value, Stephen Hawking worth can not be neglected, He proved himself even after facing lot of adversities. He proved that person as whole can never inferior to others if he has courage, determination and confidence in his own worth, his own efforts.
Nor an entity can entirely dependent on other’s judgement about himself. In colonial era, India was considered an inferior civilization, which was besotted with poverty, backward caste system , corruption etc. Though, Indian intelligentsia knew that, India had these problems yet they refused to accept India as a inferior country. Indians fight for freedom and complete independence, and later on established a vibrant democracy and become a role model of successful democracy despite lot of problems.
Therefore, every person has a right to keep opinion about other, But everyone also has a right to accept and reject other’s opinion too. Since every person is not capable to understand the inherent quality and virtue of another person, neither everyone can comprehend the objectives of one’s actions and decisions.It is also possible, that other’s decision is cl9ouded with prejudice, stigma and jealusy. Such kind of judgement work as demoralizer for other human being, if he takes them seriously, without analysing his own efforts.
Many women accept the lower status in social and economic sphere due to lack of confidence in their capabilities and worth.They accept any good social and economic status as privilege rather than right.
Now the question arises, should we not consent with anyone about their opinion on ourselves? This world is place, No One can improve in isolation. Human being learn and improve, by comparing the things, qualities etc with respect to each other or with respect to time. We take help of our parents, teachers, siblings and friends and sometime experts to analyse the things , our ideas, our actions, and want to learn drawbacks and loopholes within them.
There may be many occasion, when one learn the inferiority of his actions and decision. Though Indian society especially upper caste was used to take a pride in it’s cultural practice of Sati, but later on, with time, and development of rational thinking, Indian came to know about not only inferiority of this ritual but also about the inhumane and derogatory nature of such practice.
India as a social, economic and political system still is in boundation of many inferior practices like caste system, child labour, communalization and use of money and muscle in Indian politics. And no matter how much hurtful it is, we can not deny the inferiority of such practices and a democratic secular nation, where equality and rule of law are fundamental rights provided by constitution.
However, It will not be wise to accept that, India is inferior to others in any aspect. As, when we begin to believe about the claim of inferiority of a system as whole, we loses the opportunity and motivation to improve. We can rectify a mistake, we can solve the problems, we can improve the performance, we can remove the drawbacks, which are affecting the efficiency and effectiveness of a system. But we can not not change a system by considering it inferior as a whole. To improve a system, there is need to encourage positive aspect of it, while removing the inferior or undesirable aspect of it.
However, In this situation, one can ask that, who will decide that what are the positive and negative aspect or superiority and inferiority of a thing? Everyone has the right to have an opinion about the things or person or event of one’s concern. And based on those criteria one divide these things in good and bad. Yet superiority and inferiority of a person or a entity is relative to contexts they are subject to. Like a lathi may be good weapon for security purpose in villages from wild animals, yet in modern warfares it is inferior quality of arm.similarly, some technologies like VCR and steam engines are not compatible to modern technologies of virtual realities and jet engines, hence are considered inferior quality, But one should not forget that, earlier technologies provided the base for modern world.
But, more than the other’s It depend upon oneself that how we see ourself, lack of inferiority complex does not mean that one is arrogant and have superiority complex, It means, a person believes scientific thinking, he accept the problems in oneselves, and try to improve himself by using his talent and innovativeness.
There is no perfection in this world, We all move toward the perfection and some are behind and some are ahead, yet everyone is part of race. One can become superior by declaring other as inferior, Nor, one can improve himself by accepting himself as inferior.respect and compassion for other opinion help to develop a harmonic society and confidence and trust in oneself help to mantain one’s uniqness while developing harmony with society.
minaxibhardwaz 