Discrimination occurs when an employer or other institution makes decisions about people based on their sex, national origin, race, color, ethnicity, age, disability, or religion. This is illegal in the United States under the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Act.
Direct discrimination occurs when a person with a disability is, has been or could be treated less favorably than someone who is not, in a similar or comparable situation.
Indirect discrimination occurs when an apparently neutral provision, criterion or practice may cause a particular disadvantage to persons with disabilities in relation to other persons without disabilities. However, this provision, this criterion or this practice may be justified if its objective is legitimate and if the means to verify that objective are proportionate and necessary.
Words like:
She is just an Indian girl who sells gum! What will that brown hair of our boss be like? These are the nacos that live in the State of Mexico. Indigenous peoples are poor and dirty. The maids have no rights, only obligations. He's mentally retarded! I don't want you hanging out with that mannered boy.
As can be seen, these expressions reflect the persistence of stereotypes that stigmatize the appearance or individual or social behavior of people. However, it is important to be clear that discrimination is not always expressed so explicitly, nor does it mean that it only operates against certain groups of people. There are many subtle ways to discriminate. That is why Non-Discrimination is considered a universal right and an indispensable condition to make equality a daily reality.
The United States has been the country that has suffered the most from the ravages of racial discrimination. At the beginning of the last century, black citizens were considered to be less than their own garbage and, for example, were prohibited from drinking water from public fountains, using the same toilet as whites, and one of the more unusual ones in which blacks had to sit. The rear seats when traveling by bus to leave the white seats in the front.
