Discrimination

Discrimination is an unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice. In the workplace, many people are suffered from different types of discrimination. What kinds of discrimination can happen in the workplace? Here are five different types of discrimination a person can experience in the workplace:

• Age Discrimination
• Disability Discrimination
• Religious Discrimination
• Sexual Harassment
• Race, Color, and Sex

For myself, it was not in the workplace, but I have experienced Sexual Harassment when I was a young boy. In Korea, I visited a public bath with my friend. We were naked in the public bath. And we took shower, jumped into a cool temperature pool and hung out there. Then, there was an old man who approached us, and he touched my penis. It was a very short time happening and I could not react anything at the moment when he touched my penis. Because it was in too sudden, I did not have any feeling but back to my friends and played still. But whenever I try to remind this situation, I can clearly remember how it happened. It means that this situation becomes my trauma. Back then, I was too young to think what just happen and reasonably react to the situation. So, I did nothing against his touching.

If this situation happens to me again, I will try to avoid someone’s touching hands first. And in case I missed it, I will try to grab him and call the police. I would check if there were any CCTV or cameras that captured the situation and get those videos or images as evidence of the crime. Hence, I can use them at the court to fire a lawsuit against him. If I cannot solve this issue in this way, I may start arguing with that sexual harasser on my own.