Racism | Colorism |
Ethnic prejudice | Sexism |
Ageism | Religious discrimination |
Class discrimination | Caste discrimination |
Discrimination based on perceived social status such as income | Ableism |
Discrimination against immigrants | Discrimination against refugees |
Nationality prejudice | LGBTQ+ discrimination |
Discrimination against youth | Discrimination based on appearance |
Language & accent prejudice | Discrimination based on political affiliation |
Mental health stigmatization and discrimination | Discrimination based on health status |
Discrimination against rural people | Discrimination against urban people |
Discrimination based on family status | Discrimination against single parents |
Discrimination against divorcees | Discrimination against the unemployed |
Occupational prejudice | Xenophobia |
Detailed Examples
The following are illustrative examples of behavior that can be considered prejudice.A store owner follows a customer around a shop based on their race. | A hiring manager avoids hiring a candidate because of their religion. |
A landlord rejects an application from a single mother because they unfairly associate this with financial instability. | Students bully a classmate due to their perceived low-income background. |
A teacher talks about the negative traits of a particular nationality in their class. | A manager is hard on a member of their team because of their political affiliation. |
A retail associate doesn’t help some customers because they perceive them as low status. | A person who is fearful of another race and actively tries to avoid interacting with people of that race. |
A school policy that discriminates against students based on their hair color or hair straightness. | Parents who don’t want their son to marry a divorcee. |
Stating board generalizations about people based on aspects of their identity or life situation. | A waiter who is cold and unhelpful to a person who is recovering from cancer based on their appearance. |
Blaming social problems on immigrants in an untruthful way. | Making negative comments about someone’s body type or weight. |
Making negative comments about someone’s skin color. | A flight attendant who is rude to a customer based on their race or language. |
A coworker who is hostile to people on your team based on their nationality. | A group of classmates excludes one person from a party because of their disability. |
A hiring manager assumes a candidate will be inflexible and difficult because of their age. | A police officer is harder on teenagers than middle-aged people due to a general hostility towards youth. |
A customer in a cafe avoids sitting beside another customer based on their race. | A professor assumes a student is privileged and entitled based on their race. |
A doctor assumes things about a patient’s lifestyle because they are gay. | Your friend assumes negative things about your boyfriend based on his profession. |
A coworker makes derogatory comments about a colleague because they are pregnant. | A teacher humiliates a student for their economic background. |
A customer avoids a cashier because of their age. | A teacher assigns less work to a student with a disability because they unfairly assume they can’t handle it. |
Using derogatory terms to insult someone based on their identity. | Socially, economically or politically excluding people based on identity factors. |
Assuming someone couldn’t have a particular nationality based on their ethnicity. | A manager who doesn’t compensate one employee as much because of their disability. |
Microaggressions such as complimenting someone’s English based on their appearance when they are obviously a native English speaker. | A judge who is more lenient towards one race or gender than another. |
