... background is common throughout the world. It includes beliefs about racial purity or superiority; ethnocentric views; stereotyping and labeling; physical and social segregation; economic competition and exploitation in a split labor market. In the United States today, discrimination, which means acting unfavorably toward someone based on the group to which that person belongs rather than on the person's own ... to people who identify with one another on the basis of common ancestry and cultural heritage. Their sense of belonging may center on nation of origin; distinctive foods; dress;...

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... play between boys and girls? Younger and older students? The first school I visited was Khandallah School. A primary school of approximately 480 students aged from 5 through to 11. The school is split into two different areas. One for the younger children (aged 5 to 7) and another for the older children (8 to 11). This here is forced segregation and limited my ability to judge ... are so accepting of everyone it is perhaps for this reason that Clare and I were approached and even played with. One hypothesis that I went into this exercise with was that a family's socio-economic situation...

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