Color/Race Discrimination

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In our daily life we hear the word discrimination many times, but did we try to understand what do we mean by this word? What are the types of it? How can we translate it? and how it change our life?. Discrimination is a real and distressing problem that continues to exist in modern day society. It is translated into harmful and diminishing behavior by members of the dominant group towards other groups from other religions, color and race, those with disabilities, and much more from differences.
First type of discrimination is color/race discrimination, from here discrimination began. It started in U.S in 1400s, when European settler began colonizing America. At that time Europeans began taking slaves and treating people who looked different from them as inferior. From that time until our daily life discrimination is increasing instead of decreasing. Color/Race discrimination also takes place while making friends, for example, if I’m a white person and there is a good, friendly guy but he is black, he will never be my friend because of his color/Race. Besides religion discrimination, color/Race discrimination should not take part in a job, because the law forbids this.
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In America the law forbids discrimination when it comes to any aspect of employment such as hiring, firing, paying, etc. However, Religious discrimination is related to religious persecution, the most extreme forms of which would include instances in which people have been executed for beliefs perceived to be heretic. Laws which only carry light punishments are described as mild forms of religious persecution or as religious

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