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Contents Definitions of types of Discrimination. Xenophobia Religion Racism Disability Language Gender Class Suggestions Bibliography

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1. Xenophobia is an unreasonable fear, distrust, or hatred of strangers, foreigners, or anything perceived as foreign or different. Xenophobia causes people to hurt or murder foreigners. 2. Religious discrimination is valuing or treating a person or group differently because of what they do or do not believe. 3. Racism is the belief that inherent different traits in human racial groups justify discrimination. Racial discrimination is discrimination against ones skin colour and racial group, thus treating a particular race group unfairly. 4. Disability discrimination, which treats non-disabled individuals as the standard of normal living, results in public and private places and services, education, and social work that are built to serve 'standard' people, thereby excluding those with various disabilities. 5. People are sometimes subjected to different treatment because their preferred language is associated with a particular group, class or category. Discrimination exists if there is prejudicial treatment against a person or a group of people who speak a particular language or dialect. 6. Though gender discrimination and sexism refers to beliefs and attitudes in relation to the gender of a person, treating sexes differently or favouring one gender is called Gender discrimination. Gender discrimination refers to the practice of granting or denying rights or privileges to a person based on their gender. 7. Classism is prejudice or discrimination on the basis of social class. It includes individual attitudes and behaviours, systems of policies and practices that are set up to benefit the upper classes at the expense of the lower classes.

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EDITORIAL

Xenophobia: Fear-Mongering for American Votes

Published: August 5, 2010
Have gotten chilly toward the Constitutions 14th Amendment, which guarantees citizenship to people born in the United States. Senators Mitch McConnell, John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Jeff Sessions and Jon Kyl have been suggesting that the country should take a look at it, re-examine it, think it over, hold hearings. They seem worried that maybe we got something wrong nearly 150 years ago, after fighting the Civil War, freeing enslaved Africans and declaring that they and their descendants were not property or partial persons, but free and full Americans.
Editorial Series

As statements of core values go, the 14th Amendment is a keeper. It decreed, belatedly, that citizenship is not a question of race, color, beliefs, wealth, political status or bloodline. It cannot fall prey to political whims or debates over who is worthy to be an American. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, it says, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. People like Mr. Sessions, who pride themselves on getting the Constitution just right (on, say, guns), are finding this language too confusing. Im not sure exactly what the drafters of the amendment had in mind, said Mr. Sessions, the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee, but I doubt it was that somebody could fly in from Brazil and have a child and fly back home with that child, and that child is forever an American citizen.

Possible xenophobic attacks in Welkom

2012-02-05 Welkom police arrested 43 people last week following public violence and looting linked to unemployment protests, Free State police. Of those arrested, 34 were found in possession of stolen property after shops in Thabong were looted four nights in a row, spokesperson Warrant Officer Malebo Khosana said in a statement. The businesses targeted were mostly owned by Bangladeshis and Khosana said xenophobia could not be ruled out.

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Xenophobia: Casting Out the UnFrench

Published: August 5, 2010
France has no equivalent to the 14th Amendment, but the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, who likes to be known as Sarko the American, also is fanning dangerous anti-immigrant passions for short-term political gain.
Editorial Series

Last week, he proposed stripping foreign-born French citizens of their citizenship if they are convicted of threatening the life of a police officer or other serious crimes. Lest any voter miss the point that such a law would be particularly aimed at Muslim immigrants, Mr. Sarkozys interior minister, in charge of the police force, helpfully added polygamy and female circumcision to the list of offenses that could bring loss of citizenship. Days earlier, Mr. Sarkozy promised to destroy the camps of the Roma and send them back to where they came from, mainly Romania and Bulgaria. Both countries are members of the European Union. Hundreds of thousands of their residents, in France legally, now risk being swept up and expelled in police raids.

Xenophobic attacks on North African immigrants in Spain

By Vicky Short
21 July 1999

African immigrants living in Spain were subjected to three days of attacks last week. Skinheads displaying fascist symbols and carrying knives were amongst the violent assailants. Wednesday, July 14, some 1,300 people held an anti-immigrant demonstration in the streets of Terrassa, Barcelona. During the rally a 23-year-old African man was stabbed three times in the chest and beaten around his head and body. A further seven people were said to have been wounded. Police reportedly stood back whilst the attacks took place, and no arrests were made during the incident. The following day, immigrants from the Maghreb, the region of North Africa which includes Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, were singled out for attack by crowds of several hundred people in a square near a newly constructed mosque. Maghrebi-owned cars and shops were also destroyed. Later, the Spanish national government, the Catalan regional government and the local council responded by reinforcing the police presence in the area. North African residents complained that the authorities were using the disturbances as an excuse to harass and drive them out of the area. Mustafa Abajtour, president of the Association of Moroccans in Terrassa, said, There is a lot more than fear.... What we are living through is neighbourhood aggression and now we are confronted with police aggression, because some high-up authorities are demanding that the national police closely control whether people have their papers in order.

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Suit Alleges Religious Discrimination at MTA

September 17, 2004

The U.S. Department of Justice filed suit Thursday against the L.A. County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, alleging a pattern of religious discrimination against employees. The suit claims that the agency discriminated against a Jewish employee by refusing to accommodate the worker's observation of the Sabbath.

HEAD SCARF BANNED??

January 21, 2009

The owner of a London hair salon has been ordered to pay 4,000 compensation to a Muslim stylist who was turned down for a job because she wears a headscarf. Bushra Noah accused Sarah Desrosiers of religious discrimination when she failed to offer her a job at her Wedge salon in Kings Cross, central London, last year and yesterday, according to the BBC, an employment tribunal awarded her the cash after finding that she had been the victim of indirect discrimination. The 19year-old wanted a whole lot more: 35,000 in fact, but the tribunal rejected her religious

Zen centre is suing Walnut, alleging religious discrimination

September 25, 2011|

Occasionally they would knock on a neighbours door to borrow tools or ask for help with a maintenance issue. But for the most part, the Buddhist nuns on Marcon Drive in Walnut kept to the ranch-style house where they lived and worshiped. For 10 years, the young women with the shaved heads and long robes were accepted as part of an eclectic neighbourhood of single-family homes, a middle school, a spacious public park and four churches one Mormon, one Lutheran and two catering to Korean American Christians. The area seemed like a good place to put down roots and grow. So the Chung Tai Zen Centre a branch of the Taiwan-based Chung Tai International Chan Buddhist Assn., which has more than 100 facilities around the world sought to expand, envisioning a monastery more than 11 times the size of the low-slung home. But neighbours balked, residents protested at planning commission meetings, the project was denied and the nuns eventually fled to nearby Pomona. Now Walnut stands accused of religious discrimination, a strong charge in a predominantly Asian town where many practice Buddhism or are familiar with it.

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Racism and the Death Penalty

Published: February 14, 2012
To the Editor: Race and Death Penalty Juries (editorial, Feb. 6) highlights the stark reality of racism and the death penalty. Racism is not quantifiable, but patterns of racial discrimination are. North Carolinas Racial Justice Act aims to bridge that gap. In North Carolina, 158 inmates await execution. Most are African-American; 31 were convicted by all-white juries. Marcus Robinson, the first inmate to challenge his death sentence under the new law, was prosecuted by John Dickson, now a judge. A review of Judge Dicksons death penalty trials found that he was 3.3 times more likely to dismiss a potential black juror than other jurors. In Mr. Robinsons case, Judge Dickson struck half of the potential black jurors and 14.3 percent of the nonblack jurors. The math quantifies the unconscionable role that racism plays in death penalty trials. A just society must reject this unequal justice and abolish the death penalty.

Racism
Mexican Americans have a long history of experiencing nativism and racism which has resulted in a number of discriminatory conditions and consequences such as, social and geographical segregation, employment discrimination, patterns of abuse at the hands of law enforcement officials, vigilante murder and justice, substandard education, electoral fraud, exclusion from petit and grand juries, forced dislocations from their neighborhoods, voter intimidation, and language discrimination. Documentation of these experiences exists in abundance (See the Mexicano Political Experience in Occupied Aztlan by Armando Navarro; Rodolfo Acunas Occupied America; They Called them Greasers by Arnoldo de Leon; and Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836-1986 by David Montejano). Hence, the current persecution of undocumented Mexican migrants is simply another attempt by nativists and racist to relegate people of Mexican descent to a position of powerlessness and has nothing to do with the undocumented status of this group. As in the past, nativism and racism are intersecting hand in hand in order to maintain Whites in power and in control of U.S. institutions and society (as nativists imagine it). The majority of the city council in Farmers Branch, Texas, adjacent to Dallas, is a good example of this. The Mayor and city council placed a proposition to the voters that would prohibit renting apartments to individuals that are undocumented. It was passed by a significant margin this past spring. Although there is a temporary injunction to keep this from happening, this is yet another example of the actions that nativists and racists have historically invoked upon native born Mexican Americans. By: John Black

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Racial discrimination against whites in South Africa

October 7, 2006

After years of black Africans fighting racism in South Africa, now white students there are claiming that the government is discriminating against them. And now, theyve decided to protest in an unusual way. Students in Pretoria blacken their faces to protest what they see as the lower status of whites in modern South Africa. The group of eleven then registered as Africans with the South African department of labour said that it gives them a better chance of gaining employment.
By: Johan Smith

Hair Cuttery Accused of Racial Discrimination!!!

January 14, 2005

Two black women filed a class-action lawsuit yesterday against the Hair Cuttery, alleging that the chain of unisex hair salons charges black customers more for services because of their race and sometimes refuses to serve them.
The Tribune

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Abuse of the Disabled

Published: April 6, 2011
It is terrifying to hear about violence beatings and sexual abuse against people with developmental disabilities that is perpetrated by employees charged with their care (Cuomo to Tighten Requirements for Workers in Homes for Disabled, news article, March 30). Equally chilling is a norm that has evolved that permits the cover-up of such monstrous acts by the transfer of alleged perpetrators to elsewhere in the system, to continue to commit such atrocities with impunity. People in positions of power who are charged with policing their subordinates must be held accountable for enabling the proliferation of what has become a culture of abuse and neglect.

McDonald's Pays $90K to Settle Disability Discrimination Lawsuit

March 10, 2010

Alstrun LLP, which previously owned and operated a Philadelphia McDonalds, has agreed to pay $90,000 and furnish significant equitable relief to settle a federal discrimination lawsuit on behalf of a worker with an intellectual disability, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced recently. EEOC alleged in the suit that Timothy Artis, a lot and lobby worker at the McDonalds, was unlawfully harassed based on his intellectual disability, in violation of the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA). Even though Artis successfully performed his job duties, his supervisors, other managers, and co-workers repeatedly called him offensive and degrading names because of his disability. The harassment included physical shoving and threats, including one occasion when a co-worker threatened Artis with a box cutter, the EEOC charged in its lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Artiss mother complained repeatedly to store officials about the harassment, but the restaurant failed to take appropriate action to stop it. Artis was subsequently compelled to quit due to the unchecked verbal and physical abuse, according to EEOC.

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Abercrombie & Fitch face disability discrimination claim

25 June 2009

Abercrombie & Fitch face disability discrimination claim A 22 year old student employed by uber-cool Abercrombie and Fitch, who was told that she did not fit in with their 'look policy', is claiming that she has been discriminated against on the grounds of her disability. Riam Dean, born without her left forearm, was taken off the shop floor of the London store on Savile Row to work "behind the scenes" in the stock room. When she started working at Abercrombie and Fitch she was given special permission to wear a cardigan to cover her prosthetic arm. However, after only a few days, Abercrombie and Fitch removed her "out of sight". Dean has reportedly stated that Abercrombie and Fitch's actions have made her "question her worth as a human being".

Judges unable for disable

March 12, 2003

A recent Federal Court ruling has highlighted the lack of protection for students who have severe social and behavioural disabilities. The Walker family sued the Victorian Department of Education for discriminating against their son who suffers from multiple disabilities including Aspergers Syndrome and dyslexia.

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Bias Suits Increase Over English-Only Rules

Published: April 23, 1997

When Maria Quinones and Evelyn Silverman, co-workers and best friends, were asked by their supervisors at a Brooklyn home-care agency not to speak Spanish in the office, they said they would comply. When they were told not to speak Spanish on their breaks, they said they would try. But when they were ordered not to speak Spanish while they paced up and down the street in front of the office during their lunch hour, or as they walked to their cars at the end of the day, the two women balked. ''I said, 'Is that a job requirement? Can you put it in writing?' '' recalled Ms. Silverman, a bilingual Army Reserve sergeant who was born in the Dominican Republic. Ten days later, Mrs. Quinones and Ms. Silverman were dismissed. A lawyer for their former employer said the women were dismissed for ''just cause,'' not for their choice of language. But Federal officials contend that Mrs. Quinones and Ms. Silverman were dismissed because they spoke Spanish on the job. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed a lawsuit in United States District Court in New York against the women's former employer for violating Federal laws that prohibit discrimination on the basis of nationality. Language, the law says, is an intrinsic part of a person's nationality and cannot be arbitrarily regulated.

An end to discrimination against English students

21 June 2002

We demand an end to Tuition Fee debt for English students. Scottish students dont pay them so why should English students? To add insult to injury, the Scottish Executive has passed punitive financial penalties in an effort to deter English students wanting to study in Scotland.

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Language Discrimination and Classism Linked in Jamaica

December 23 1999

I never liked speaking Patwa. It just sounded so, crude. By the time I was in grade ten I stopped using the dialect altogether. My siblings often complained that [mi] lov gwaan laik [mi] kyaahn chat Patwa. I scoffed at them, smugly retorting that we were all educated in the English language and were free to use it. I never liked speaking Patwa. It just sounded so, crude. By the time I was in grade ten I stopped using the dialect altogether. My siblings often complained that [mi] lov gwaan laik [mi] kyaahn chat Patwa. I scoffed at them, smugly retorting that we were all educated in the English language and were free to use it. This approach made sense to me, because Jamaicans regard you differently when you speak English. I honestly thought I was even a little bit better than those who were not fluent in English, because supposedly, it meant they were not as educated as I was. I realized at a very young age that proficiency in English was a mark of social class, and having been born poor, I was very interested in gaining traction on the slippery ladder of social mobility.

English rules?
July 1998

The Australian government would like to make an introduction to English as a part of a program that refugees will have to complete before reaching Australia. Parliamentary secretary for immigration considers learning English to be "crucial" for migrants if they wish to benefit from the opportunities that are offered in Australia. The opposition, however, disagrees with the plan and considers it a method of forcing migrants to assimilate into Australian culture instead of having the option to.

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Changing Gender - The New Sex Discrimination

February 15, 2012

A sweeping decision by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals treated discrimination against transsexuals as sex discrimination

MISSION VIEJO
May 2007

Three female members of the Mission Viejo Country Club have filed a lawsuit alleging that the club discriminates against women by making it difficult for them to golf with their female friends. The lawsuit also says that the club illegally bars women from eating at a male-only luxury lounge. "There is absolutely no reason for it," said Michelle A. Reinglass, a Laguna Hills lawyer who filed the lawsuit in Orange County Superior Court on behalf of members Kathleen Kellogg, Marguerite L. Skinner and Lorna Henricks. "The club needs to be opened up."

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Status is everything
2005/01/29

Since 2002 the HPLC has been lobbying for changes to Victorian equal opportunity law to make it unlawful to discriminate against someone on the basis of their social status. The HPLC takes social status to include homelessness, employment status and being in receipt of social security benefits. Remarkably these attributes are not protected attributes under the current Equal Opportunity Act 1995 (Vic), which means that it is currently lawful to discriminate against someone if they are homeless.

Class system in modern India

The leaders of independent India decided that India will be democratic, socialist and secular country. According to this policy there is a separation between religion and state. Practicing untouchability or discriminating a person based on his caste is legally forbidden. Along with this law the government allows positive discrimination of the depressed classes of India.

Toshiba Becomes Latest US Employer to Face Class Discrimination Suit

unknown Over the last year it has been reported that discrimination and relation suits are on the rise with more than 100,000 discrimination complaints being filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in 2010. This trend has been linked to the widespread layoffs that are typical of a poor economy. Toshiba is now the most recent employer to face a discrimination claim. The class action complaint, which was recently filed in New York district court, alleges that Toshiba America inc. engages in systemic, companywide, gender discrimination by failing to promote female employees and pay female employees salaries and bonuses equal to male co-workers.

Social class and discrimination

2000

Peoples experience of class and poverty can lead to their views not being heard, being left out when decisions are being made, isolation and humiliation. A recent poll showed that poor people in particular think that class, not ability, greatly affects the way they are seen. In the last 25 years the number of people in the top two social classes has doubled in Glasgow. However while the citys middle class has grown and prospered, other parts have seen little improvement. Many people are dependent on sickness or unemployment benefits or low paid work. This has led to growing inequality.

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What to do! Discrimination in all of its forms are unacceptable and should be stopped, but its not as easy as it seems, everybody discriminates every day. There are many solutions to minimize discrimination but discrimination can never be stopped totally, I will now be sharing all the possible methods that can be used to reduce discrimination: 1) Xenophobia: Stop foreigners from entering the country illegally. Educate South Africans on foreigners so that they can better understand them and try to get along with them. Set up strict laws that if any xenophobia attacks are made that the offenders are to be fined or be sued. Help and educate foreigners about our South African laws and customs so that they could get along better with the natives of this country. Set up posters in rural areas as they discriminate the most, and have speakers visiting these places informing people that what they are doing is wrong. Teach the youth in schools how to handle Xenophobia.

2) Religion discrimination: Allow 100% tolerance for all religions. Educate every South African about each and every religion that is practised in Southern Africa so that the people will understand and accept all religions. Make people aware that people believe in different things and that everybody must just accept it. Make sure that Religion discrimination is not practised by companies and business buy use of strictly set laws. Place adverts on TV that contain multi religion integration. Influence churches to not discriminate but to accept through law.

3) Gender discrimination: Encourage gender equality through TV. Make sure that laws are in place that entitles companies to look past gender. Help both Females and males understand each other from early ages of education. Disband any gender bias groups and organisations.

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4) Racial discrimination: Allow freedom of choice in political matters. Stop BEE that is discrimination. Allow people of South Africa to make their own choices and not force Race upon them. Help companies not to be bias to any race but to be equally fair and allow academics to overrule race. Stop parties like the DA from using race to win elections, as is causes more discrimination.

5) Class discrimination Promote awareness in schools. Children educated from very young that discrimination is lawfully wrong tend to be more accepting of all people despite race, sex, religion, etc. The quality of education should be underlined and this depends upon the capacity of teachers, especially at the primary and secondary school levels, which needs more support through a variety of incentives and training. Understanding that while providing student communicative power to have access to opportunities determined by our society, instructors might be teaching to act out of their social identity.

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