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Racism Â· Sexism Â· Ageism
Religious intolerance Â· Xenophobia

Specific forms Social

Ableism Â· Adultism Â· Biphobia Â· Classism
Elitism Â· Ephebiphobia Â· Gerontophobia
Heightism Â· Heterosexism Â· Homophobia
Lesbophobia Â· Lookism Â· Misandry
Misogyny Â· Pediaphobia Â· Sizeism
Transphobia

Against cultures

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Australian Â· Blacks Â· Canadian Â· Catalan
Chinese Â· English Â· European Â· French
German Â· Igbo Â· Indian Â· Iranian Â· Irish
Italian Â· Japanese Â· Jewish
Malay Â· Mexican Â· Native Americans
Polish Â· Portuguese Â· Quebec Â· Roma
Romanian Â· Russian Â· Scottish
Serbian Â· Spanish Â· Turkish Â· Whites

Against beliefs

Atheism Â· Bahá'í Â· Catholicism
Christianity Â· Hinduism Â· Judaism
Mormonism Â· Islam Â· Neopaganism
Protestantism
New religious movements

Manifestations

Slavery Â· Racial profiling Â· Lynching
Hate speech Â· Hate crime
Genocide (examples) Â· Ethnocide
Ethnic cleansing Â· Pogrom Â· Race war
 Â· Religious persecution Â· Blood libel Â· Paternalism
Police brutality

Movements Discriminatory

Aryanism Â· Hate groups Â· Ku Klux Klan
Neo-Nazism Â· American Nazi Party
South African National Party
Supremacism

Anti-discriminatory

Abolitionism Â· Civil rights
Women's / Universal suffrage
LGBT rights Â· Feminism
Masculism Â· Men's / Fathers' rights
Children's rights Â· Youth rights
Disability rights (Inclusion)
Autistic rights Â· Equalism

Policies

Discriminatory
Race / Religion / Sex segregation
Apartheid Â· Redlining Â· Internment Â· Ethnocracy

Anti-discriminatory
Emancipation Â· Civil rights
Desegregation Â· Integration
Equal opportunity

Counter-discriminatory
Affirmative action Â· Racial quota
Reservation (India) Â· Reparation
Forced busing
Employment equity (Canada)

Law

Discriminatory
Anti-miscegenation Â· Anti-immigration
Alien and Sedition Acts Â· Jim Crow laws
Test Act Â· Apartheid laws
Ketuanan Melayu Â· Nuremberg Laws

Anti-discriminatory
Anti-discrimination acts
Anti-discrimination law
14th Amendment Â· Crime of apartheid

Other forms

Nepotism Â· Cronyism Â· Colorism
Linguicism Â· Ethnocentrism Â· Triumphalism
Adultcentrism Â· Gynocentrism
Androcentrism Â· Economic

Related topics

American exceptionalism Â· Afrocentrism Â· Bigotry Â· Eurocentrism Â· Prejudice Â· Supremacism
Intolerance Â· Tolerance Â· Diversity
Multiculturalism Â· Oppression
Political correctness
Reverse discrimination Â· Eugenics
Racialism

Discrimination Portal This box: view â€¢ talk â€¢ edit Look up ageism in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Ageism is stereotyping and prejudice against individuals or groups because of their age.[1] The term was coined in 1969 by US gerontologist Robert N. Butler to describe discrimination against seniors and patterned on sexism and racism[2].

Butler defined ageism as a combination of three connected elements. These were:

• prejudicial attitudes towards older people, old age and the ageing process
• discriminatory practices against older people
• institutional practices and policies that perpetuate stereotypes about older people[3]

The term has also been used to describe discrimination against teens and children, by ignoring their ideas because they're young or by assuming that they should behave a certain way because of their age.

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