Diversity

Question 0

Discrimination

Answer 0

Is treating someone differently especially because of feelings or prejudices about their sex, race, religion, disability etc.

Question 1

Disability

Answer 1

A person will be disabled if they have a physical or mental impairment which has a substantial and long term adverse effect on their ability to carry out normal day to day activities which include using a telephone or using public transport.

Question 2

Ethnocentrism

Answer 2

The making of judgements about the behaviour and culture of others based upon your own culture as the norm- viewing others through the eyes of your own culture.

Question 3

Gender Reassignment

Answer 3

A person is deemed to have the protected characteristic of gender reassignment if they are proposing to undergo, is undergoing, or has undergone a process (or part of a process) for the purpose of reassigning the persons sex by changing physiological or other attributes of sex.

Question 4

Racial Group

Answer 4

Is defined as reference to race, colour, nationality, ethnic origins or national origins.

Question 5

Passive Discrimination

Answer 5

When a person witnesses discrimination and disagrees with the discrimination and doesn’t challenge it.

Question 6

Pro-Behaviour

Answer 6

Where a member of a minority group accepts discrimination without challenge or ‘turns a blind eye’ to it r laughs at a discriminatory joke.

Question 7

Racist Incident

Answer 7

Any incident which is perceived to racist by the victim or any other person.

Question 8

Sexual Harassment

Answer 8

Unwanted conduct of a sexual nature or other conduct based on sex effecting the dignity of men and women at work

Question 9

Victimisation

Answer 9

Where a person is treated less favourably because they have made a complaint based on a belief that they have been subjected to a discriminatory practice; or where another person supporting someone exercising their right receives less favourable treatment as a result.