Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Discrimination

Discrimination.
There are many types of discrimination, mainly-
-racial and ethnic discrimination
-age discrimination
-sex, gender, gender identity discrimination
-caste discrimination
-employment discrimination
-sexual orientation discrimination
-language discrimination
-disability discrimination
-religious discrimination

These discrimination can be classified as

involving the body:
-age discrimination
-sex, gender, gender identity discrimination
-disability discrimination
-sexual orientation discrimination

involving thoughts:
-employment discrimination
-caste discrimination

involving culture and tradition:
-racial and ethnic discrimination
-language discrimination
-religious discrimination

examples of the various types of discrimination
-racial and ethnic discrimination-people with dark skin will be looked downed and will be given less job opportunities.

-age discrimination-people with older age would not be given equal opportunity as the younger candidates

-sex, gender, gender identity discrimination- in the past, women are given less opportunities as men. Eg: girls in the past are not given the opportunity to study.

-caste discrimination-Hindus are classified into different categories and the lower class categories get less opportunity as the higher class

-employment discrimination-people with poorly paid jobs will not be well treated.Eg: road sweepers and cleaners.

-sexual orientation discrimination-a gay will be treated with less respect and would be sometimes laughed at or mocked at.

-language discrimination-people with slang of a particular race will be imitated so as to mock the person.

-disability discrimination- those with physical disabilities may be mocked at or may receive undesirable views.

-religious discrimination-people believing in certain religion will not be welcomed or well treated.

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