Shopping Discrimination Against African Americans

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General studies in United States focus on African Americans experience shopping discrimination because of their appearance of being poor. Since they do not have stable money. In this research shows two different study group where African Americans will have their own preferences of getting upgrade, one group will prefer get headphones upgrades, while the another group will prefer get hotel room upgrade. Those kinds of preferences do impact the research and discrimination against African Americans. Meanwhile, one study group focus on their shopping experience as of weather will they buy an expensive necklace at a high-end jewelry store, going out to fancy dinner, or spend time looking around at electrics shop. The research is trying to prove

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