Discrimination In A Multicultural World

The discrimination is one the significant topics nowadays. It can be of different types, but the most popular are: discrimination in accordance with the race, nationality, age, gender, sexual orientation, and religion people have. Even though, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 has banned the discrimination on the most aspects as gender, skin color, religion, race and ethnicity, the discrimination still exists in the societies. I have found interesting to describe a kind of specific type of discrimination, which is related to the issue where the person came from, his actual origin/nationality and the language he/she speaks, because, to my mind, it seems to be the most frequently met type of discrimination in different countries nowadays. The aim

First of all, there is a need to clarify that the origin is not something about the religious view of the person, and not entirely about ethnics; it is more about nationality of the individual, where he/she comes from, which is his/her home country. Although, currently we all live and study in Czech Republic, we are those who live in the multilingual and multicultural society among the people from different countries – it does not matter whether we meet people in the main street of the city or we meet them at the university – we are from various origins. But, as the practice shows even if people want to communicate within the new society, they tend to find the people from the same country or at least people speaking the same native language. Naturally, they tend to gather into the groups in respect with their origin, because in these groups they can easily express themselves in their native language and feel themselves comfortable. Actually, this practice is widely used at the University of New York in Prague. It is quite obvious that the groups of Czechs and Slovaks are separated from, for instance, the Russian-speaking nations as

What is more, some people, being pessimistic for such misunderstanding, can even sink morally by starting collecting anger on that group of people of different origin, ignoring the people of that group, even sometimes attacking verbally, and in the worst cases – spreading rumors, teasing and bullying people of the other origin (Huq, Stein and Gonzalez). As for the UNYP case, we have the separation of groups consisting of the same nationality or race, which is the sort of thing that goes against UNYP 's international offering. Practically, some of the UNYP students, who are not Czech or Slovak native speakers learn the Czech language or attempt to communicate in English with the Czechs/Slovaks, fail to do that. In most of the cases Czechs/Slovaks do not continue to communicate with that person, except the emergency situations such as some misunderstanding during the lecture, joint presentations and the discussion group divided by the professor on purpose. It is quite ineffective way to practice the language, so, there is no doubt that the English-speaking University fails to reach one of the main goals – to make the students