Diversity

Question 1

Disability

Answer 1

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 Day to day activities such as using a phone or public transport

Question 2

Discrimination

Answer 2

Treating someone differently because of feelings or prejudices about their sex, race, religion etc

Question 3

Ethnocentrism

Answer 3

The making of judgments about the behaviour and culture of others based on your own culture as the norm/ viewing others through the eyes of your own culture

Question 4

Gender reassignment

Answer 4

A person is deemed to have a 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 attributes to sex

Question 5

Passive Discrimination

Answer 5

Where a person witnesses discrimination and disagrees with it and doesn’t challenge it

Question 6

Pro-behaviour

Answer 6

Where a member of a minority group accepts discrimination without challenge or

turns a blind eye to it or

laughs it off as a discriminatory joke

Question 7

Racial group

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Racial incident

Answer 8

Any incident which is perceived to be racist by the victim or anyone else

Question 9

Sexual harassment

Answer 9

Unwanted conduct of a sexual nature or other conduct based on sex affecting the dignity of women and men at work.

Question 10

Victimisation

Answer 10

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 weather another person supporting them receives the same treatment