{"id":713,"date":"2019-05-31T09:24:15","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T08:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muratyaman.co.uk\/wp\/?p=713"},"modified":"2020-04-01T10:30:12","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T09:30:12","slug":"conscious-discrimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muratyaman.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/05\/conscious-discrimination\/","title":{"rendered":"Conscious Discrimination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Psychologists claim that discrimination is wired in our brains, starting at early stages of our lives. Please read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/even-babies-discriminate-nurtureshock-excerpt-79233\">&#8220;Even babies discriminate: a nurtureshock excerpt&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Since our brains are making many <strong>unconscious<\/strong> decisions most of the time, we have to try hard consciously and <strong>avoid<\/strong>&nbsp;behaviour that can be seen as discrimination and may upset people around us, colleagues, friends, family members&#8230;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Simple matters can cause it:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul><li>skin colour (like in the news article below),<\/li><li>nationality, language, accent,<\/li><li>political opinions, religious beliefs,<\/li><li>gender preferences,<\/li><li>clothes we wear, tattoos,<\/li><li>types of food we eat (vegetarian, vegan etc.),<\/li><li>hobbies,<\/li><li>devices we use (Apple vs others), cars we drive (expensive vs cheap), <\/li><li>programming languages and tools\/frameworks we use.<\/li><\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Worse bit is <strong>conscious discrimination<\/strong>! Some companies are trying to resolve that issue with formal training; many are ignoring it!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><strong>BBC: &#8220;Miss India contest: Why do all the finalists &#8216;look the same&#8217;?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-india-48442662\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muratyaman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/miss-india-group-photo.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-717\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muratyaman.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/miss-india-group-photo.jpg 660w, https:\/\/www.muratyaman.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/miss-india-group-photo-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Link:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-india-48442662\">https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-india-48442662<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psychologists claim that discrimination is wired in our brains &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185],"tags":[161],"class_list":["post-713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psychology","tag-discrimination"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muratyaman.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muratyaman.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muratyaman.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muratyaman.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muratyaman.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.muratyaman.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":864,"href":"https:\/\/www.muratyaman.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions\/864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muratyaman.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muratyaman.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muratyaman.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muratyaman.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}