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Employers discriminate against Muslims, study finds - 1 views

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    Muslims face "massive discrimination" when applying for jobs, according to the first scientifically validated study of anti-Muslim bias among employers in France.
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Name Discrimination: Texas Theory - 2 views

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    In order to truly treat all people equally, we must ensure that individuals with ethnic sounding names are not discriminated against.
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28% of Britons feel discriminated against due to accent - 0 views

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    As part of a Tonight programme investigating whether social stigma and snobbery still exist towards regional accents, an exclusive poll reveals that more than a quarter of Britons feel they have been discriminated against because of the way they speak.
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Undercover job hunters reveal huge race bias in Britain's workplaces - 0 views

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    Civil servants created false identities to send CVs to hundreds of employers in sting to uncover discrimination
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Study Reveals Discrimination Starts Before Grad School - 0 views

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    Study showed that professors are much more likely to respond to a student who sounds like a white male than to a student who sounds like a female or minority.
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    Study showed that professors are much more likely to respond to a student who sounds like a white male than to a student who sounds like a female or minority.
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The Angry Eye with Jane Elliott - YouTube - 0 views

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    Hailed as "a fascinating revisit" to the famous 1968 Blue-Eyes/Brown-Eyes Exercise in discrimination by Jane Elliott, this film documents the effects of racial prejudice with startling force and emotional intensity.
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    Hailed as "a fascinating revisit" to the famous 1968 Blue-Eyes/Brown-Eyes Exercise in discrimination by Jane Elliott, this film documents the effects of racial prejudice with startling force and emotional intensity.
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Brazilian funk star Anitta sparks new debate about skin whitening and race - 0 views

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    Anti-discrimination campaigners say singer appears paler since signing record deal (Guardian UK)
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Personal names and identity in Pakistan - 2 views

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    Names are so important that a human being can lose his or her life only because of the wrong name in the wrong place.
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Clumsy and cack-handed? Lefties are leaders, not losers - 0 views

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    The stigmatising language faced by left-handed people has not hampered their success
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Alex Dang - 'What Kind of Asian Are You?' (NPS 2013) - YouTube - 0 views

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    Spoken word from the 2013 National Poetry Slam
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Dark Girls: New Documentary From Producer Bill Duke Tackles Colorism - 0 views

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    "Dark Girls" is a powerful documentary on the issue of the separation - between light-skinned and dark-skinned African-Americans.
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Speaking out for regional accents - 1 views

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    Reaction to a prize-winning novelist who recommended that children be forced to take elocution lessons, to "wipe out" their accents (BBC News 1999)
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Rod McPhee: Accent prejudice isn't merely unkind it's self-defeating too - 1 views

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    To this day whenever I'm addressed by someone with crisp received pronunciation I still feel the instinctive need to tug my forelock and sink into a deep curtsy (opinion column)
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Is Britain becoming a nation of accent snobs? - 0 views

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    Erica Buist: As an accent coach I increasingly hear from people sidelined because they sound foreign (Comment is Free, Guardian.com)
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    Erica Buist: As an accent coach I increasingly hear from people sidelined because they sound foreign (Comment is Free, Guardian.com)
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