Discrimination...?

Question

What was your last experience with discrimination. This should be an example where you saw, not necessarily experienced, discrimination. I am doing a repot for school, and these answers will help me greatly. Thank you in advance for your response.

Answer 1

There isn't really a certain time that i remember last seeing or hearing about discrimination because not many people notice but discrimination is all around us not just racism discrimination but also a lot of othere kinds of discrimination like for example in the political world has there ever been a woman president?.......I don't think so and men still think that a woman shouldn't be president just for the fact that they are a woman and almost all guys think they are generally smarter than women but actually women and men are equal in education since women passed the right to vote but anyways i'm getting a little off topic but the point is that there is discrimination all around us there might not be as much racism nowadays but if u think about it white people still don't treat african american people the way they should and i for one believe that that is not right because it doesn't matter what we look like on the outside its what is on the inside that counts and even in public schools and stuff there is sorda discrimination because of the people that think they are better than everyone else they make the other poor kids that can't help it feel really bad and that just isn't right if u ask me so im tellin you there isn't any specific last time that some one saw or heard about discrimination because its actually all around us.......................... and good luck with your report

Answer 2

I work in a nursing home and the Nurse's aides are mostly black and the nursing management staff, as well as the administration staff are all white. There has been a big issue about what colors these young ladies can where in their hair and what is a "natural" color that would be acceptable. Now I do agree that some things are not acceptable in the workplace but when you punish a girl (suspend w/o pay for 3 days) for having burnt orange hair and another doesn't even get spoken to about hers that she just dyed the day before the exact same color, I think that discrimination comes into play. It's just sad when something as trivial as hair color is getting in the way of taking care of our elderly, who by the way enjoy the arrays of colors that they see on the people who are taking care of them

Answer 3

The last time I remember being discriminated against was when I last went into a Barnes and Noble. I'm a teenager; normal, wears jeans and a hoodie, carries a purse, does not look like a thug, teenager. I've never stolen anything in my life, nor done anything bad. However, the last time I was in there, I could swear that there was an employee of B&N following me around, and when I went to the cash register to have them ring up my books, it was the person following me around who was manning the register. He gave me this look like "I know you're doing something wrong...I just don't know what yet." It just annoys me how people always assume that just because I'm a teenager, I'm a bad person. I know adults that I wouldn't trust in any store, since they're compulsive shop-lifters; but do they ever get followed? Nope. Just me. It makes me angry.

Answer 4

I am American-born, Caucasian, and Pagan. I have never been Muslim. Yet when I put a scarf over my hair, because it was wet from swimming and shampooing, I was given hell for "converting to Islam" on the bus. I was glared at, too. I felt so bad. I'd heard that New Yorkers are sometimes twitchy around their Muslim fellow citizens, but hadn't seen it firsthand, and this let me see it firsthand.

I tied my hair back in a ponytail with the exact same scarf a few hours later and was treated *much* better.

Answer 5

I was out having dinner with a white friend of mine and I could see immediately that our white waitress didn't like the fact that I was with a white man. She was rude and her service was slow. In the mean time I watched her treat her other white patrons with friendly respect, but her attitude completely changed when she came to our table, and she behaved as if she couldn't stand to be serving us. We reported her and the management apologized for truculent her behavior.

Answer 6

My last School experiance with Discrimination is about Steriotypes, not really that intense though:

I was in my Math Class, and one girl begins to go on about how Animals will still live when humans die out (It was free time in Math). Then another guy who sat near me began to say that he will kill the animals with a shotgun. So I was feeling playful. I just said this:

"What? Are you afraid of dying?" I just said that to just tease him. Then he glares at me.

"No, you are afraid of dying, you little Emo" he said. Note I was wearing white, but most thought me as an Emo on my Anti-Social behavior most of the time in class.

"No, I'm not afraid of dying, you are, why are you so afraid of Animals outliving you?" i asked. He looked me right in the eye.

"Well, if you ain't afraid of dying, then just cut your wrists and die already" he said.

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Meh, I'm used to it. Go ahead and use this to your heart's content.

Answer 7

I was discriminated against at a job interview for being pregnant.

Answer 8

In deep south,was with black friend and they were reluctant to seat us and then way in the back,almost out of public view.

Answer 9

On last Thursday, I heard a girl being called fat and ugly. I couldn't do anything about it, but I sure felt bad for her.

Answer 10

every time i get to the front of the line, everyone keeps making go back to the back of the line.