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Download it here Diversity is defined as cultural differences in values, beliefs and behaviors including nationality, ethnicity, gender, age, physical characteristics, sexual orientation, economic status, education, profession, religion, organizational affiliation, and any other cultural differences learned and shared by a group of interacting people. (Bennett 1995)
Diversity and the Law (Restrictions on what we can and can not do)
PROBLEMS LEGAL RESPONSE STEREOTYPES
1. POVERTY Women Welfare - SS Benefits Blacks Tax Expenditure (Deductions) Chicanos Direct Subsidy/grants Indians
Poor degree of opportunities
2. RACE (Socially Defined) Ethnicity Institutional Discrimination (US Constitution) Race - 14th Amend - Right to Vote/ Race - 24th Amend - Poll tax, literacy Immigration - Deportation Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) National Origins Act of 1921 Reservations (Wards of Fed. Govt.)
3. GENDER - (cultural/social definitions) (Title IX Educational Amendments) (Sex Discrimination) Religion 1963 Equal Rights Act Title VII - 1964 Civil Rights Act 1978 Pregnancy Discrimination Act 1974 Education Amendments (Act)
19th Amendment - Right to Vote
4. ELERLY - Ageism (Systematic stereotyping against people because they are old)
SSI Benefits Medicare Elder abuse 5. SEXUAL ORIENTATION (a socially created deviance)
Religious Restrictions (sin) 1973 American Psychiatric Assn declassified Homosexuality Sodomy (oral or anal sex) laws til 1961 Bowers v Hardwick (1986) (P 315) Military (don’t ask) Family Rights Occupational Discrimination - Professional certificates - Criminal record = no license)
6. FAMILIES Family and Medical Leave Act (1993) Households Working parties
7. EDUCATION Finances
San Antonio v Rodriquez (1973) (S. CT US) Serrano v Priest (1976) S CT. CA State school finance system violates EP Clause
8. HEALTH CARE Social Class - Poor Folks (Medicare) Race Gender Age (Medicare - 1965 for 65+ citizens)
9. WORKPLACE Work Conditions Unions (1930’s) Discrimination EEOC Women Minorities Unemployment Workman’s Compensation Global Flight
10. CRIME
11. MENTAL DISORDERS Civil Rights of Patients
12. DRUGS
It was a historical inevitability. SADDAM HUSSAIN:
This was an unprovoked act of rebellion and we were quite justified in dropping 50 tons of nerve gas on it. RONALD REAGAN:
What chicken? CAPTAIN JAMES T. KIRK:
To boldly go where no chicken has gone before. FOX MULDER:
You saw it cross the road with your own eyes. How many more chickens have to cross before you believe it? MACHIAVELLI:
The point is that the chicken crossed the road. Who care why? The end of crossing the road justifies whatever motive there was. FREUD:
The fact that you are at all concerned that the chicken crossed the road reveals your underlying sexual insecurity. BILL GATES:
I have just released Chicken Coop 2000, which will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents, and balance your checkbook - and Explorer is an inextricable part of the operating system. EINSTEIN:
Did the chicken really cross the road or did the road move beneath the chicken? BILL CLINTON:
I did not cross the road with THAT chicken. And what do you mean by “chicken”? Could you define “chicken” please. PAT BUCHANAN:
To steal a job from a decent, hardworking American. LOUIS FARRAKHAN:
The road, you will see, represents the black man. The chicken crossed the “black man” in order to trample him and keep him down. COLONEL SANDERS:
I missed one? L.A. POLICE DEPARTMENT:
Give us five minutes with the chicken and we’ll find out. RICHARD M. NIXON:
The chicken did not cross the road. I repeat, the chicken did not cross the road. I don’t know any chickens. I have never known any chickens. DR. SEUSS:
Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it with a toad? Yes! The chicken crossed the road, but why it crossed, I’ve not been told! ERNEST HEMINGWAY:
To die. In the rain. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.:
I envision a world where all chickens will be free to cross roads without having their motives called into question. GRANDPA:
In my day, we didn’t ask why the chicken crossed the road. Someone told us that the chicken crossed the road, and that was good enough for us. ARISTOTLE:
It is the nature of chickens to cross the road. KARL MARX:
The Politically Correct 12 Days of Christmas (The 12 Days, Deconstructed)
On the 12th day of the Eurocentrically imposed midwinter festival, my potential-acquaintance-rape-survivor gave to me,
TWELVE males reclaiming their inner warrior through ritual drumming.
ELEVEN pipers piping (plus the 18-member pit orchestra made up of members in good standing of the Musicians Equity Union as called for in their union contract even though they will not be asked to play a note…)
TEN melanin-deprived testosterone-poisoned scions of the patriarchal ruling class system leaping,
NINE persons engaged in rhythmic self-expression,
EIGHT economically disadvantaged female persons stealing milk-products from enslaved Bovine-Americans,
SEVEN endangered swans swimming on federally protected wetlands,
SIX enslaved fowl-Americans producing stolen nonhuman animal products,
FIVE golden symbols of culturally sanctioned enforced domestic incarceration,
(NOTE: after member of the Animal Liberation Front threatened to throw red paint at my computer, the calling birds, French hens and partridge have been reintroduced to their native habitat. To avoid further animal-American enslavement, the remaining gift package has been revised.)
FOUR hours of recorded whale songs,
THREE deconstructionist poets,
TWO Sierra Club calendars printed on recycled processed tree carcasses
and a Spotted Owl activist chained to an old-growth pear tree.
(RK)
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