MULTICULTURAL DIVERSITY

Multicultural Diversity

Introduction

Individual discrimination is based on the racial and ethnic groups more than anything else. It occurs when one individual points fingers at the other particular group or any individual. On the other hand the institutional discrimination is pointed out to the entire community of people. So in a nut shell the institutional discrimination causes more harm than individual discrimination simply because it offends the entire community of people and often signs of ethnic and racial issues are raised when talking about the institutional discrimination.

Discrimination of Gender

The right to equality is enshrined in the American Convention and the Declaration American human rights, and prohibits them DISCRIMINATION states all grounds of gender in law and in fact through its agents. The legal discrimination is serious, as it eliminates any possibility however remote of claim before a national court for unlawful discrimination. Despite legal and constitutional reforms that have recently traveled America there is still discrimination against women in law, as has been reported Report of the Commission on the Status of Women in the Americas in 1998. In addition to discrimination in the law there is discrimination in fact, not only by citizens but also by agents of the state. An example is the allocation of resources by the state that does not properly consider the rights of women.

Discussion and Examples

Many governments have attempted to control discrimination through legislation on civil rights, equal opportunity and affirmative institutional policies. Some governments have formalized and supported discrimination. Among them are the South African apartheid, racial segregation in the United States between the Civil War and 1960, and The "Jewish problem" in Nazi Germany and re-education camps in some communist countries. Even in secular democracies government can have discriminatory practices. The most obvious is that it offers a better treatment to its citizens ...