Discrimination in

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America
 WHAT IS
DISCRIMINATION?
--unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of
prejudice
-- to treat differently on the basis of sex or race

--being biased or having a belief or attitude formed

beforehand
 Your religion, race, height, nationality, and
even your gender are factors that most
people make quick judgments about.
Unfortunately, many of these judgments
are based on biases and assumptions.

Answer the Question:

Have You ever made an assumption about a person or

thought you had an idea about a person because they
looked, spoke, or had a different opinion than you?

That is Discrimination.
 RACIAL DISCRIMINATION

In 2006, there were 1,305 victims of

hate crimes motivated by
ethnicity/national origin. Of those,
the large majority (819) were
against Hispanics.

The most recent FBI

Hate Crimes report
reveals that in 2006,
there were 5,020
victims of racially
motivated hate
crimes. Of that, more
than half (3,332)
were African
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Movement in the U.S.

The most socially acceptable, and probably most

widespread, form of hate crime among teenagers and young
adults are those targeting sexual minorities. In fact, 75% of
students have no state laws to protect them from harassment
and discrimination in school based on their sexual orientation
and 97% of students report regularly hearing homophobic
remarks from their peers. Despite much progress for the LGBT
community, there is still a long way to go to truly reach
equality.
 DISABILITY RIGHTS

About 600 million people in the

world experience disabilities of
various types and degrees.

About 1 in 10 children has

dyslexia, a learning disability
that manifests primarily as a
difficulty with written
language, particularly with
reading and spelling.

Cerebral palsy, which

 Dwarfism, a medical or permanently affects body
genetic condition that movement and muscle
usually results in an adult coordination, is one of
height of 4'10" or shorter, the major causes of
affects over 1.5 million childhood paralysis.
people in the U.S.
 DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN

One in three teens experience

some kind of abuse in their
romantic relationships, including
verbal and emotional abuse

40% of
teenage girls,
ages 14 to 1 in 4 teenage girls in
17, known relationships say they have
someone been pressured to perform
their own oral sex or have sex when
age who has they don't want to.
been hit or
beaten by
their partner.

1 in 4 teenage girls in relationships

say they have been pressured to
perform oral sex or have sex when
they don't want to.
RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION

Most religiously motivated hate

crimes are acts of vandalism (like
swastikas spray-painted onto
synagogues and tombstones),
but personal attacks are not
uncommon.
According to the FBI, the
overwhelming majority of
religiously motivated hate
crimes (64.3% in 2006) are
directed against Jews.

Two 2005 polls reveal The FBI reported a seventeen-fold

that 34% of Americans
believe that
mainstream Islam
encourages violence
and 44% say some
curtailment of civil
liberties is necessary
increase in anti-Muslim crimes
nationwide during 2001, largely due
to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Muslims
were also victims of harassment in
the period immediately following the
bombing of the Murrah federal
building in Oklahoma City.
 IMMIGRATION
Immigrants are an essential
element in keeping the American
economy strong.
There were an
estimated 34.2 million
immigrants in the
United States in 2004,
according to the U.S.
Census Bureau. Of
these, 18.3 million
came from Latin
America, 8.7 million According to hate crime
from Asia and 4.7 statistics published annually
by the FBI, anti-Latino hate
crimes rose by almost 35%
between 2003 and 2006, the
latest year for which
statistics are available.
ENVIRONMENTAL DISCRIMINATION

People of
color make up
the majority
of those living
in
neighborhood
s located
within 1.8
miles of the
nation’s Native Americans also
hazardous experience
environmental racism
in their communities.
Recent studies have shown that Many Native
children of color who live in poor Americans who live in
areas are more likely to attend communities where
schools filled with asbestos, live in most people are
homes with peeling led paint, and below poverty level
play in parks that are face some of the
contaminated. worst toxic pollution
problems in the
 Sources
Dosomething.org

Kids Health

Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention

Little People of America

Gay Life

Seattle Pi

National Gay and Lesbian Task Force

Diversity Web

HUD

Civil Rights Project