BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES - Universitatea de Medicină şi Farmacie

Russification: Under the Russian Empire there were some
attempts in 1899-1917 to make Russian the only official language of
Finland. In the Soviet Union, following the phase of Korenizatsiya
("indigenization") and before Perestroika (late 1930s to late 1980s),
Russian was termed as "the language of friendship of nations", to the
disadvantage of other languages of the Soviet Union.
Age discrimination - is discrimination on the grounds of age; can
refer to the discrimination against any age group, usually comes in one of
three forms: discrimination against youth (also called adultism),
discrimination against those 40 years old or older, and discrimination
against elderly people.
Sex, Gender and Gender Identity discrimination - refers to
beliefs and attitudes in relation to the gender of a person, such beliefs and
attitudes are of a social nature and do not, normally, carry any legal
consequences.
Caste discrimination - currently, there are an estimated 160
million Dalits or Scheduled Castes (formerly known as "untouchables") in
India. Dalit people face severe problems, such as segregation and violence
against them.
Religious discrimination - Religious discrimination is valuing or
treating a person or group differently because of what they do or do not
believe. It is discrimination to treat you unfairly compared to someone
else, because of your religion or belief. This is called direct discrimination
and is illegal. Examples include: refusing a bank loan because the person
is Jewish; refusing to allow into a restaurant because the person is Muslim
; dismissing from work because the person is Rastafarian.
Disability discrimination - against people with disabilities in favor
of people who are not, is called ableism or disablism. Disability
discrimination, which treats non-disabled individuals as the standard of
‘normal living’, results in public and private places and services,
education, and social work that are built to serve 'standard' people, thereby
excluding those with various disabilities.
Example of direct discrimination because of disability: a pub
allows a family with a child who has cerebral palsy to drink in their beer
garden but not in their family room. The family with the disabled child is
not given the same choices that other families have.
Example of indirect discrimination: A local authority produces an
information leaflet about its services for local people. It does not produce
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