diversity

Question 1

disability

Answer 1

a person will be disabled if they have a physical or mental impairment which has a substantial or long term adverse effect on their ability to carry out day to day activities such as using the telephone or going on public transport

Question 2

discrimination

Answer 2

treating someone differently especially because feelings or prejudices about their race,sex,religion,disability etc

Question 3

ethnosentrism

Answer 3

the making of judgements about the behavior and culture of others based upon your own culture as the norm- viewing others through the eyes of your own culture

Question 4

gender reassignment

Answer 4

a person will be deemed to have the protected characteristics of gender reassignment if they are proposing to under go is under going or has undergone a process (or part of a process) for the purpose of reassigning the persons sex by changing physiological or other attributes of sex

Question 5

passive discrimination

Answer 5

where a person witnesses discrimination taking place and disagrees with the discrimination but does nothing to challenge it

Question 6

pro-behavior

Answer 6

when a member of a minority group accepts discrimination without challenge or ‘‘turns a blind eye to it’’ or laughs at a discriminatory joke

Question 7

racial group

Answer 7

is defined by reference to race, colour, nationality, ethnic origins and national origins

Question 8

racist incident

Answer 8

any incident which is perceived to be racist by the victim or any other person

Question 9

sexual harassment

Answer 9

unwanted conduct of a sexual nature or any other conduct based on sex affecting the dignity of woman and men at work

Question 10

victimisation

Answer 10

where a person is treated less favorably because they have made a complaint based on a belief they have been subject to a discriminatory practice: or where another person supporting someone exercising their rights receives less favorable treatment as a result