By Nicholl McGuire
You may have noticed someone acting unfairly toward you whether blatantly or inadvertently and dismissed it in the past, but it keeps happening and you want to know whether they are discriminating against you because of your age, race, gender, creed, sexual preference, body weight, or religious views. The following signs will help you discover whether a person doesn't like you because of these things, but you will need more than one event to happen to make that determination and it must keep occurring to know whether a person is sincerely discriminating against you. So what are some specific signs you might be overlooking?
One. When conversing with this person, he or she makes stereotypical remarks, jokes or false assumptions about your age, race, gender ,sexual preference, body weight, or religion. You find yourself having to defend who you are and what you believe.
Two. When controversy erupts regarding your particular age group, race, religion, or gender, a bias person will make statements like, "Your people, you women, you young people, your kind..." You feel angry and often feel the need to explain why you or your group is different.
Three. When asking a boss or supervisor about additional opportunities to better yourself, share ideas, and service others, you are met with a negative attitude and are told, "Thank you, but I can handle it. You should stick with what you are doing." Sometimes people will act as if they are superior by saying, "I didn't know you knew that...I thought your people weren't interested in that sort of thing."
Four. When you share your personal experience, the person will belittle it, debate as if they were there, talk about their "friend" who is the same race, likes the same sex, may have a similar build or has the same religion as yourself and will do or say other things to make them look like the authority on the issue. They may say, "I told my friend he needs to lose weight. He was about your size. I know what those people believe. I have studied their religion. I know about gays, my friend is gay. I have a black friend and he talks to me about ghetto people."
Five. When you try to be friendly or make friends, you are greeted half-heartedly or not at all. The person doesn't include you in on any activities, meetings or events. When asked about them, he or she seems to always have an excuse as to why they hadn't included you such as, "I misplaced your phone number. I thought I emailed you. I told Bill to tell you...I thought you knew already."
Six. When you come around people act as if they don't trust you without any particular reason. They may even deliberately set traps to catch you lying or stealing so that they can replace you with someone else.
Seven. You overhear someone talking about your race, gender, sexual preference, religion, etc. and when you come around they quickly change the subject and act as if they like you. When you tell them what you have heard that offended you, they try to set you apart from the rest. "Well you know you are different...we like you but we don't like them..."
When you feel discriminated against you must not act on feeling alone, you must have solid information that proves that a person was acting unfairly toward you because of your race, religion, creed, sexual preference, or gender. A quick indicator someone is a racist or has some other issue with you is when you see that other people of a different race or has similar views are being afforded better opportunities than you and when you question it the company always has an excuse despite all the efforts you made to fulfill company requirements.
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