In America today, people suffer from institutional discrimination which is a form of discrimination against a group of people. In our society, the three most common types of discrimination are religious discrimination, ethnic discrimination, and racial discrimination. The difference between interpersonal and institutional discrimination is that interpersonal discrimination refers to intolerant interactions between individuals, while institutional discrimination refers to inequity between a society and a mistreated group of people. Unfortunately, in the last ten years bigotry still exists because fearful and unjust people still put others down because of their differences. The underlying cause of this is that people are insecure about themselves
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Abercrombie tries to maintain a formal look policy and by doing that it can lead to discrimination. But they are caught in a bind with the law when Hyman exclaims, “it has made at least 70 exceptions to its look policy in the last 7 years, all on a case-by-case basis, including some religious accommodations for hijabs.” It seems that the formal dress code policy can break Title VII because Hyman states, “Title VII requires an employer, once on notice, to reasonably accommodate an employee whose sincerely held religious belief, practice or observance conflicts with work requirement.” To paraphrase, as long as the employee notifies Abercrombie they should be permitted to wear their hijab freely in the workplace. In a different case an employer asked about religion during a job interview which is also forbidden. The only case mentioned in this article where the employer won is when the woman from Tulsa, Oklahoma failed to tell her employer about this accommodation. The significance of this article proves that employers need to be informed of discrimination laws, on the other hand people with strong religious beliefs need to communicate with their employer in …show more content…
These articles all have one common theme, people are thinking less of each other before ever meeting or hearing anything about them. Prejudice views in our society are destructive and divisive as it hinders us as people. The three articles exemplify how prejudice permeates our society. First, in “Gender discrimination at 30,000 feet” by David Whiting from the O.C. Register explains how men and women discriminate each other by requesting not to sit next to each other based on genders. The people that do this are damaging society because they are not able to communicate with the others around them unless they are the same or different genders which is unfair to the men and women. The second article, “Any Headway on Headwear” by Jon Hyman in Workforce magazine talks about Abercrombie & Fitch’s violation of Title VII based on their “look policy”. People are supposed to notify their employer of their religion and the employer must permit an exception to the look policy. This policy is unfair to women who have to wear hijabs for their religion because companies are attempting to force them out of a job because of their religion. The final article “A waitress asked some black teens to prepay for their meal a fellow diner wasn’t having that” by Doug Criss tells how a waitress at IHOP believes it is acceptable
Abercrombie tries to maintain a formal look policy and by doing that it can lead to discrimination. But they are caught in a bind with the law when Hyman exclaims, “it has made at least 70 exceptions to its look policy in the last 7 years, all on a case-by-case basis, including some religious accommodations for hijabs.” It seems that the formal dress code policy can break Title VII because Hyman states, “Title VII requires an employer, once on notice, to reasonably accommodate an employee whose sincerely held religious belief, practice or observance conflicts with work requirement.” To paraphrase, as long as the employee notifies Abercrombie they should be permitted to wear their hijab freely in the workplace. In a different case an employer asked about religion during a job interview which is also forbidden. The only case mentioned in this article where the employer won is when the woman from Tulsa, Oklahoma failed to tell her employer about this accommodation. The significance of this article proves that employers need to be informed of discrimination laws, on the other hand people with strong religious beliefs need to communicate with their employer in …show more content…
These articles all have one common theme, people are thinking less of each other before ever meeting or hearing anything about them. Prejudice views in our society are destructive and divisive as it hinders us as people. The three articles exemplify how prejudice permeates our society. First, in “Gender discrimination at 30,000 feet” by David Whiting from the O.C. Register explains how men and women discriminate each other by requesting not to sit next to each other based on genders. The people that do this are damaging society because they are not able to communicate with the others around them unless they are the same or different genders which is unfair to the men and women. The second article, “Any Headway on Headwear” by Jon Hyman in Workforce magazine talks about Abercrombie & Fitch’s violation of Title VII based on their “look policy”. People are supposed to notify their employer of their religion and the employer must permit an exception to the look policy. This policy is unfair to women who have to wear hijabs for their religion because companies are attempting to force them out of a job because of their religion. The final article “A waitress asked some black teens to prepay for their meal a fellow diner wasn’t having that” by Doug Criss tells how a waitress at IHOP believes it is acceptable