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Effects of Discrimination

Discrimination leads to severe emotional and psychological effects, including anxiety, depression, and social withdrawal. It negatively impacts communities and businesses by reducing productivity and morale, as talented individuals avoid discriminatory environments. Legal consequences exist for discriminatory actions, emphasizing the importance of addressing such behavior.

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Effects of Discrimination

Discrimination leads to severe emotional and psychological effects, including anxiety, depression, and social withdrawal. It negatively impacts communities and businesses by reducing productivity and morale, as talented individuals avoid discriminatory environments. Legal consequences exist for discriminatory actions, emphasizing the importance of addressing such behavior.

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TEXT: Effects of Discrimination

Like abuse and bullying acts, there are effects and consequences and no one wins.
Exclusion or rejection directed to you by others for reasons that you often have no control of
can cause extreme worry to an individual. It results in anxiety, sadness, depression and a
feeling of guilt and emptiness. These often translate into depression, loss of interest, eating
disorders and stress-related ailments.

Discrimination, harassment and victimization leave the individual confused and broken. They
may take to alcohol or drugs, or may form their own opinions on others, develop hatred for
others, or withdraw from people. It can affect them financially, may lose their job, quit school
or do poorly at school.

Communities and businesses that fail to take strong action on discrimination tend to be lower
in productivity. This is because people feel disgruntled and lose interest in working hard.
There is a drop in moral, trust and confidence on the part of the employees. People with
talents and exceptional skills and abilities are not attracted to these places because they do
not want to be discriminated against.

People who face racial discrimination may regroup with some vengeance in mind against
other groups. This can fuel conflicts and social discords. In fact many conflicts and wars have
been started in this way.

There are very strict laws on discrimination that may be applied to individuals who
discriminate. There is no excuse, even if you did not know that your actions were
discriminatory. Employees and individuals can bring legal action on the business or individual
who did the act, and there are consequences for guilty parties.

Adapted from http://eschooltoday.com/discrimination-and-prejudice.

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