The Pros And Cons Of Discrimination

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Over the past years Employment has been a big factor when it comes to race. Many Americans face hard times getting employment because of their ethnicity. Others struggle the race discrimination at the workplace. It could also be said that the minimum wage is another factor in this. Considering the discrimination between race and gender.
As we have seen so many stories of people not getting hired or being discriminated. As a result this people get discriminated because of the color of their skin or ethnicity. Many people face this issues when they go to places, and apply or attend interviews. When people go and apply we always put our race, and if you don’t summit that well in the last name, and first name we can identify . What I’m trying to say is if people refuse to do that part in the application sometimes with the last name people get discriminated as well. For these reasons people get discriminated and don’t get hired. I want to point out a store that is really famous is called Hollister. This store used to be racist when people went to the interviews they would only hired white people and Hispanics, blacks and Asians were not allowed. Over the years the employers that were discriminated sued this company. Now there’s more diversity in the stores and people of all races have …show more content…

Furthermore he mention how black men were not hired because they are seen as unreliable, dishonest people. Therefore showing racial inequlaities between men of color rather than whites. The results of this experiment was showing that whites receive more positive response than Latinos did. The purpose of this article was to show the statistics of how the evolution of racism has involve in the Unites States. To desmonstrate that racism is still affecting society when it comes to people who are not white and are

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