Diversity Flashcards
Discrimination
Is treating someone differently especially because of feelings or prejudices about their sex, race, religion, disability etc.
Disability
A person will be disabled if they have a physical or mental impairment which has a substantial and long term adverse effect on their ability to carry out normal day to day activities which include using a telephone or using public transport.
Ethnocentrism
The making of judgements about the behaviour and culture of others based upon your own culture as the norm- viewing others through the eyes of your own culture.
Gender Reassignment
A person is deemed to have the protected characteristic of gender reassignment if they are proposing to undergo, is undergoing, 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.
Racial Group
Is defined as reference to race, colour, nationality, ethnic origins or national origins.
Passive Discrimination
When a person witnesses discrimination and disagrees with the discrimination and doesn’t challenge it.
Pro-Behaviour
Where a member of a minority group accepts discrimination without challenge or ‘turns a blind eye’ to it r laughs at a discriminatory joke.
Racist Incident
Any incident which is perceived to racist by the victim or any other person.
Sexual Harassment
Unwanted conduct of a sexual nature or other conduct based on sex effecting the dignity of men and women at work
Victimisation
Where a person is treated less favourably because they have made a complaint based on a belief that they have been subjected to a discriminatory practice; or where another person supporting someone exercising their right receives less favourable treatment as a result.
