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on racial and cultural understanding. Discussion Discrimination can be of two types, direct and indirect (What does discrimination mean?). Direct discrimination is the type noted above; it occurs "when a
person is treated less favourably [sic] than another in a comparable situation because of their racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation" (What does discrimination
mean?). An example of this type of discrimination is the famous "No Irish Need Apply" signs that appeared in shops and stores during the wave of immigration in the mid-1800s.
Indirect discrimination is when an "apparently neutral" practice would place certain people at a disadvantage; for example, "requiring all people who apply for a certain job to sit a test
in a particular language, even though that language is not necessary for the job (What does discrimination mean?). The test might be used to discover-and exclude-those whose native language is
not that of the testers (What does discrimination mean?). Discrimination is common in human history: individuals and groups have discriminated against on another based on race, religion or a vast
number of other ways (Sowell). However, the discrimination "has itself been unequal-- more fierce against some groups than others and more pervasive at some periods of history than in others
(Sowell). Author Shelby Steele writes that "whites in America today are fearful of being considered racists, while blacks are fearful of being considered inferior. Social dogmas may be accepted
because they relieve both groups of their fears, even if these dogmas neither explain the past nor prepare for the future" (Sowell). Claude Levi-Strauss argues that a cultures true contribution
lies not in what it has accomplished, "but in its difference from others" (2001). If this is true, then the misunderstandings that occur between cultures and races have a very
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