Sunday, August 5, 2007

Forms of Discrimination

Lookism
Definition: Discrimination or prejudice against people based on their appearance.
Lookism in all spheres (creditst to lookism.info)Corelations to other forms of discrimination (creditst to lookism.info)


Ageism
Definition: Discrimination based on age, especially prejudice against the elderly.
http://www.webster.edu/~woolflm/ageism.html

Xenophobia
Definition: A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenophobia

Disablism

Definition: discrimination against people with disabilities in favor of people who are not disabled.

http://www.demos.co.uk/publications/disablism

http://www.raggededgemagazine.com/departments/closerlook/000947.html

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