Definition of direct and indirect discrimination

The discrimination It is a social behavior that consists of a person or a group stigmatizing and separating another person or group as a consequence of considering it in some aspect (race, sex, religion, age, among others) lower than him or them.

Now, it is plausible that we find two types of discriminatory scenarios, one called as direct discrimination, because precisely norms or actions are proposed that tend to stigmatize the different, or simply exclude them from the enjoyment of certain rights.

The USA It has been the country that has suffered the most from racial discrimination. At the beginning of the last century, black citizens were considered less than their own. garbage and for example they were forbidden to take Water of public water fountains, use the same bathroom used by whites and another of the most unusual provisions provided that blacks had to sit in the back seats when traveling by bus in order to give whites the seats in the bus. front.
What happened recently in the United States is a clear example of direct discrimination.

And on the other hand, there is what is called as indirect discrimination which consists of the imposition or observance of norms, rules, which in the first instance seem harmless in this matter but which in the They are not practically so, and even more so, they have dire and negative consequences affecting the rights of those who reach.

A clear example of this type of discrimination is that the owners of a dance club for the public Teen put on the door of the establishment a poster to say: public in slippers abstain. Such an indication could be offensive and discriminatory for those good people who like to wear sneakers and comfortable shoes when they go out to have fun.

Unfortunately, discrimination is a conduct very present in today's world and in that of our ancestors. Probably the only thing that progress was made is in reducing the violence physics with which in the past it used to be manifested, however, today, it is still very present through another type of actions, which do not involve physical violence but which do fully manifest the fact discriminatory.