All 6 Uses of
discriminate
in
Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell
- ...when we talk about racism or the fight for civil rights, this is the kind of discrimination that we usually refer to.
Chpt 3 *discrimination = unfair treatment of some groups of people
- It is at the root of a good deal of prejudice and discrimination.†
Chpt 3
- The apartheid policies of South Africa or the laws in the American South that made it difficult for African Americans to vote are manifestations of conscious discrimination, and when we talk about racism or the fight for civil rights, this is the kind of discrimination that we usually refer to.†
Chpt 3
- For years, for a number of reasons having to do with discrimination and cultural patterns, there simply weren't a lot of women and minorities entering the management ranks of American corporations.†
Chpt 3
- If Ayres's study is evidence of conscious discrimination, then the car salesmen of Chicago are either the most outrageous of bigots (which seems unlikely) or so dense that they were oblivious to every one of those clues (equally unlikely).†
Chpt 3
- But unconscious discrimination is a little bit trickier.†
Chpt 3
Definitions:
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(1)
(discriminate as in: suffered discrimination) to treat people of different groups differently -- especially unfair treatment due to race, religion or gender
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(2)
(discriminate as in: discriminating taste) to recognize or perceive differences -- especially fine distinctions