Summary: Discrimination

In 2014, 12 year-old Vanessa VanDyke was threatened to be expelled from her school, Faith Christian Academy in Orlando, Fl., if she didn’t comply with the schools dress code and cut her hair, which they deemed a “distraction.” A few months before VanDyke’s incident, another little girl, 7 year-old Tiana Parker, was sent home from her school, Deborah Brown Community School in Tulsa, Oak., because her dreadlocks violated school policy, which stated that “hairstyles such as dreadlocks, afros, mohawks, and other faddish styles are unacceptable.” Earlier this year, a group of high school girls were suspended from school in Nassau, Bahamas, for wearing their hair natural because it was dubbed “untidy, un groomed, and unkempt hair.” The list of natural hair discrimination incidents in schools can go on— even longer if you want to include discrimination incidents towards Black hair in the work place, but this article would never end if I listed all of them. All of these incidents serve as a reminder why non-black people wearing black hairstyles is so

P3: describe the potential effects of discriminatory practices on those who use the health and social care service.

The facts of this issues is that there has been in some cases of hairstyle based discrimination within the work place. Looking at the case of EEOC v. Mims Distributing Company, Inc., in regards to Christopher Alston, an African American man. This case was a hairstyle based discrimination, however it was based on the company not having a policy to addressed hairstyle as a religious practice. The outcome of this case ended with Mims Distributing Company paying $50,000 and adopting a formal religious accommodation policy that will address future issues (Lally, 2015). Another case based on hairstyle discrimination would be Farryn Johnson v. Hooters. Ms. Johnson, an African American was awarded more than $250,000 after an arbitrator found that racial discrimination did in fact contributed to her getting fired (CHUCK, 2015). Hooters prohibits only African-American Hooters Girls from wearing blond highlights in their hair, other women were allowed to wear blond highlight in their hair (CHUCK, 2015). Johnson was told by the manager that blond streaks didn 't look natural on African Americans (CHUCK, 2015). However, on the other hand cases that are similar to Chasity Jones, an African American woman, who was initially hired to work for Catastrophe Management Systems but notified later that the job was withdrawn because of her hairstyle, which were dreadlocks, was not found guilty of discrimination (Wellington, 2016). However, every case is not like the other case because

Age Age can cause discrimination to some people. Old people could be vulnerable because they could be weak and no longer strong enough to look after themselves so they could become reliable on other people. Young people could also be vulnerable because when there really young they also rely on their parents or carer, younger people can also be vulnerable because they haven’t got the experience of doing important things alone so could be vulnerable to other people. For example an asylum seeker could have moved from their home where there is civil wars going on such as in Syria, the asylum seeker could be in their 80’s and they could go to the dentist to become a patient here and the receptionist could make a joke saying something like “aren’t

The topic of intersectionality is an interesting and controversial one. Although we as a society have made great progress over the past several decades, there is still a long ways to go when it comes to complete equality of races, genders, sexualities, etc. One pattern I notice when it comes to these different categories is double standards. This is something that is such a huge problem with race, gender, as well as sexuality. I have noticed with race, there are certain hairstyles and fashion trends that are considered “trendy’ and “unique” on white women, are considered unattractive and unprofessional for women of color to wear, especially African-American. One hairstyle that has been in the media lately for controversial reasons is dreadlocks. There have been recent fashion shows where the models were wearing dreadlocks as a unique style. However, this is a hairstyle that African-American women have been

The discrimination is based on ageism. Ageism means when someone discriminates a person according to their age. The patient feels that because she is old, the carers will think controlling her and not provide her with the care she needs is satisfying and the right thing to do. As well as this , the carers believe that old people are irrelevant and do not have feelings since old patients are near the end of their lives.

There is a very wide known issue on hair in America based on the dynamics of hair around presentation and first impressions. There is a present concern in the work environment as well as in the public sector, where racial biases are within communities and society as a whole. After watching the documentary by Chris Rock called “Black Hair” (inspired by his daughter’s inquiry on nappy hair) there were many famous characters, which stated they would much rather wear straight hair verses curly, kinky hair also permed hair forced straight by chemicals. In the article Edited by Lilly Caldwell 2004 “Look at Her Hair” with the song “THE NEGRA IN BRAZILIAN POPULAR CULTURE” Lilly say’s, this song provides a telling example of Black women 's portrayal in Brazilian popular culture. After my researched online. I found a news source with a case pending here in the US where a Black woman with “Locks”, was hired on a job, then told she must change her hairstyle, it was not acceptable, which was racist and degrading.

Nurses must respect the law and there are many legislative acts in place to ensure this. The equality act (2010) was introduced to cover many forms of discrimination including age discrimination which came into effect October 2012 (Gov.uk, 2013). Nurses must not discriminate Mr Williams for being elderly and perhaps stuck in his ways. Going into hospital will be a traumatic time for him and he will be feeling confused and vulnerable which may come across as mean mannered and indifferent or not willing to help himself. The nurses must ensure they follow the principles of beneficence and nonmaleficence when treating Mr Williams.

Ms. Jones was given an Ultimatum: get rid of her dreadlocks for a more professional image or forfeit the job at CMS (Glembocki 1). This incident is viewed in some eyes as racial discrimination and violated Ms. Jones’s freedom of speech and her right to a job. Unfortunately, a judge ruling the case that was brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Ms. Jones’s behalf, decided that it was legal to refuse to hire a person regardless of race is legal in the law and according to Title

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently filed a lawsuit on behalf of Chastity Jones, a woman from Mobile, Alabama with dreadlocks whose job offer was revoked by Catastrophe Management Solutions because of her hair. The case file states that a human resource manager from the company made remarks about Chastity’s hair during a meeting to discuss her hiring saying to her that, “they tend to get messy, although I'm not saying yours are, but you know what I'm talking about.” At the conclusion of the meeting, the human reassures manager told Chastity that she would not be joining the company because of her dreadlocks. The U.S. Court ruled that refusing to hire a person because of their dreadlocks is not illegal. The interview

In the mid-1900’s, in the American South, discrimination based on both race and gender was blatantly recognized as socially appropriate, and the attitudes of majority factions with such norms in mind were reflected in numerous instances of public policy. One of such instances was a public policy which enabled a Woolsworth’s in Greensboro, North Carolina, to forbid people of color from sitting at the store’s lunch counter. In response to the oppressive nature of this policy, four black students ignored the rule which restricted them—an act of civil disobedience which was erupting all over the region—and took seats at the forbidden lunch counter, demanding to be served. Such instances, labeled ‘sit ins,’ were often recognized as illegal behavior and were treated as such by local law enforcement, who arrested those who resisted their oppression. When questioned during a televised debate as to how he could advocate for citizens of a society to break the law, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. responded with a statement which echoed the demands for justice across the world, a statement to which he was sure that his opponent would have to agree: that “an unjust law is no law at all.”

I chose discrimination and prejudice for my multicultural paper, because I feel that discrimination and prejudice is the main reason for all the hate in the world. People are discriminated against because of reasons such as race, ethnicity, religion, looks, sex, sexual orientation, class, and other ridiculous reasons. I feel that if discrimination could be eradicated, then this world would be a peaceful place to live. Discrimination has been plaguing this world since the beginning of time. I am sure there was prejudice as Homo sapiens started interbreeding with Neanderthals. I could picture Homo sapiens parents telling their children to stay

According to article 16, “Race and Gender Discrimination Contemporary trends,” Sterba expresses how women are asked if they were harassed or not in their work force. In pink collar jobs to blue collar jobs. Women get sexually harassed in a lot of jobs. For example, the author states, “According to the National Law Journal, 64 percent of women in pink-collar jobs reported being sexually harassed and 60 percent of 3,000 women lawyers at 250 top law firms said that they had been harassed at some point in their careers” (Sterba, 125). The video “Killing us Softly 4,” Killbourne states, “It also does something even more insidious. It creates a climate in which there is a widespread violence against women” (Killbourne, 2:13-219). She was stating

But why would we want that, when noted scholar Sarah Palin insists that universal coverage would bring about “death panels?” It’s non-discriminatory: From an article I read written by Jasmine Jaksic, one woman did get to have an experience with Universal Healthcare during a marriage trip in Bled, Slovenia. During her wedding trip the bride to be began to have lower abdominal pain she was brought to a emergency room in a row called Jesenice. There she found out that she had a cyst which was benign but would need to be removed. The bride was sent home on painkillers because the doctor did not want to have to postpone her wedding for the operation. The next day the bride’s symptoms began to worsen and she needed to be rushed back to the hospital,

As a supervisor responsible for hiring subordinates, supervising them, and recommending them for promotion should avoid discriminatory management practices such as recruitment through word of mouth, help wanted ads or selection standards through educational requirements, appearance, health questions, height weight etc. (Dessler, 2013).