DISCRIMINATION BY CULTURE AND BELIEFS

Cultural DiscriminationIt’s the case of indigenous people, migrants and religious minorities.

• Physical characteristics

• Color

• Dress

• Language

• Socioeconomic status

• Customs and traditions

Why are indigenous discriminated?

In America, countries with large indigenous population are:

• Mexico, with about l0 million

• Peru, with 8 million

• Bolivia, more than 4 million

• Ecuador, with about 5 million

• United States, with over 2 million.

How do the indigenous suffer the discrimination?

• Social distancing of their culture and customs

• Deliberate exclusion from the labor market

• Forced displacement to make way for tourism development

• Harassment and death of their leaders and / or members.

Immigrants

Those who discriminate are afraid of the loss of identity and proclaim the superiority of their own culture.

How do the immigrants suffer the discrimination?

• Beatings, torture and humiliation • Violation of due process to capture and deport them

• Use of their vulnerability to economic gain or sexual satisfaction.

Religious DiscriminationThere are numerous cases of people who are discriminated by their inclination towards a particular religion.

How discrimination affect religious communities?

• Access to public education

• Health services

• Public office

• Some of them are arrested

• Lost of their lives because of their religious affiliation.

The most tragic example of this would be the genocide conducted by Nazi Germany during the 1930 and 1940 to annihilate the Jewish population of Europe.

The atrocity of discrimination occurs also in Christian organizations.

We live in a society where there is unequal rights throughout the world.

Discrimination against atheists

People associate atheism with immorality, criminal behavior, and elitism.

Forms of discrimination or violation of their human rights:

• Imposition of Catholicism from the government

• Intrusion of religion in politics

• Social rejection and imposition of offensive qualifiers to those who profess no religion

• Transmission of religious messages on news programs