The harms of discrimination

I recently wrote that:

I also consider that China's future pathway to economic growth and development is inherently tied to freeing her people from the current thought control, allowing dissent and discussion, and taking advantage of the new concepts and currents that are brought to light by that - just as allowing minorities full participation in a nation's life frees those resources to contribute economically, intellectually, politically, culturally, and socially.

Here in the West, our biggest problem is discrimination against minorities and anyone who challenges our parentally-propagated biases or other social conditioning or is "different" - discrimination that robs us of so much (particularly economically), in addition to actively causing harm, discrimination that I also ran into yet again yesterday . . .