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discrimination
thumb|alt=See caption|An African-American man drinking from a Racial segregation in the United States|racially segregated water cooler marked "Colored", in [[Oklahoma City ]] Discrimination is the process of making unjustified distinctions between people based on the groups, classes, or other categories to which they belong or are perceived to belong, usually in a way that it deprives them of their legal or human rights. The group may be such as race, gender, age, class, religion, disability or sexual orientation. Discrimination typically leads to groups being unfairly treated on the basis of
stereotype
thumb|upright|An 18th-century Dutch engraving of the peoples of the world. thumb|A stereotypical caricature of a [[villain (i.e. generic melodramatic villain stock character, with handlebar moustache and black top-hat), particularly popular in early-20th-century silent films and melodramas and popularized by Snidely Whiplash]] thumb|Police officers buying doughnuts and [[coffee, an example of perceived stereotypical behavior in North America]] In social psychology, a stereotype is a generalized belief about a particular category of people. It is an expectation that people might have about ever
hate speech
speech that expresses hatred towards individuals or groups
oppression
Oppression is malicious or unjust treatment of, or exercise of power over, a group of individuals, often in the form of governmental authority. There are many scholars who have attempted to define oppression, usually by the types of harm suffered by those who are persecuted.
affirmative action
policy of promoting members of groups that have previously suffered from discrimination
social exclusion
form of social disadvantage and relegation to the fringe of society
double standard
application of different sets of justifications for situations that are essentially the same
handedness
thumb|Stenciled hands at the Cueva de las Manos in Argentina. Left hands make up over 90% of the artwork, demonstrating the prevalence of right-handedness. thumb|A schoolgirl writing with her left hand In human biology, handedness is an individual's preferential use of one hand, known as the dominant hand, due to and causing it to be stronger, faster or more dextrous. The other hand, comparatively often the weaker, less dextrous or simply less subjectively preferred, is called the non-dominant hand. In a study from 1975 on 7,688 children in US grades 1–6, left handers comprised 9.6% of the sam
other
philosophical, psychological and anthropological concept that refers to the opposite of one's own identity
equal opportunity
state of fairness in which individuals are all treated the same (with justified exceptions)
black triangle
Nazi concentration camp badge for "asocials"
microaggression
Microaggression is a term used for commonplace verbal, behavioral or environmental slight, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicates hostile, derogatory, or negative attitudes toward members of marginalized groups. The term was coined by Harvard University psychiatrist Chester M. Pierce in 1970 to describe insults and dismissals which he regularly witnessed non-black Americans inflicting on African Americans. By the early 21st century, use of the term was applied to the casual disparagement of any socially marginalized group, including LGBT, poor, and disabled people. Psychologis
algorithmic bias
systematic and repeatable errors in a computer system that create unfair outcomes, such as privileging one arbitrary group of users over others
LGBT rights in Lebanon
rights of LGBT people in Lebanon
educational inequality
uneven distribution of academic resources, including school funding, experienced teachers, textbooks, and technology
fat acceptance movement
social movement seeking to change anti-fat bias in social attitudes
fat feminism
form of feminism
institutionalized discrimination
form of discrimination
LGBT rights in Chad
rights of LGBT people in Chad
LGBT rights in Ethiopia
right of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender in Ethiopia
LGBT rights in Djibouti
Rights of LGBT-alligned people in Djibouti
LGBT rights in Guinea
rights of LGBT people in Guinea
LGBT rights in Cameroon
rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in Cameroon
inclusive language
a writing approach avoids prejudiced or biased terms
LGBT rights in Zimbabwe
history, politics and law
LGBT rights in Eritrea
right of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender in Eritrea
LGBT rights in Zambia
rights of LGBT people in Zambia
OneLove
OneLove is an anti-discrimination, anti-racism, LGBT+ rights and human rights campaign, started during the 2020 football season by the Dutch Football Association, that invites football players to wear armbands with the rainbow-coloured OneLove logo. Attracting controversy when worn in nations that have homophobic or anti-LGBT+ laws, it became prominent during the men's 2022 FIFA World Cup.
structural discrimination
form of institutional discrimination
voter suppression
effort to influence the outcome of an election by discouraging or preventing specific groups of people from voting
Equality of outcome
political concept
self-licensing
Self-licensing (also moral self-licensing, moral licensing, or licensing effect) is a term used in social psychology and marketing to describe the subconscious phenomenon whereby increased confidence and security in one's self-image or self-concept tends to make that individual worry less about the consequences of subsequent immoral behavior and, therefore, more likely to make immoral choices and act immorally. In simple terms, self-licensing occurs when people allow themselves to indulge after doing something positive first; for example, drinking a diet soda with a greasy hamburger and fries
fairness in machine learning
trait of an algorithm, whose results are independent of given variables, e.g. gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability
discrimination against people from rural areas
social stigma associated with COVID-19
experience of being shamed
discrimination in education
endophobia
Endophobia is a neologism understood as the aversion or disdain for the cultural identity and/or phenotypical characteristics of one's own ethnic group, as well as individuals from the same nation, either for their nationality or the sociocultural aspects of the idiosyncrasy of their country or region of origin. It is considered the inverse of xenophobia, which is the rejection of what is perceived as foreign or strange.
Caste system among Indian Christians
overview of the traditional social stratification practiced by Indian Christians
sex characteristics
legal term
Basic Principles for the Treatment of Prisoners
1990 UN General Assembly resolution
blacklisting
Blacklisting is the action of a group or authority compiling a blacklist of people, countries or other entities to be avoided or distrusted as being deemed unacceptable to those making the list; if people are on a blacklist, then they are considered to have done something wrong, or they are considered to be untrustworthy. As a verb, blacklist can mean to put an individual or entity on such a list. A blacklist is synonymous with a list of banned persons or organizations, and is the opposite of a whitelist.
Panathlon International
organization