Sunday, August 5, 2007

Other Forms of Discrimination-Lookism, Ageism, Disablism, Xenophobia.

Lookism, Ageism, Disablism and Xenophobia!
These are some of the other forms of discrimination that we don't usually take note of.

Lookism -
act of discrimination or prejudice against people based on their appearance.

Related articles:

- http://www.cavalierdaily.com/CVArticle.asp?ID=19836&pid=1154
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http://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2005/04/18/29307/overweight-and-underpaid-as-lookism-sweeps-the-world.html
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http://herald.cau.ac.kr/news/read.php?idxno=148

Ageism - act of discrimination based on one's age;especially when there is prejudice against the old.


Related articles:
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4041713.stm
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/ouch/columnists/tom/060904_index.shtml

Disablism -







Related articles:
-http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200705/s1932280.htm
-http://www.news-medical.net/?id=1933
-http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,,2138455,00.html

Xenophobia - fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign.

Related articles:
-http://www.expressnews.ualberta.ca/article.cfm?id=7417
-http://www.refugeesinternational.org/content/article/detail/863/



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