Do I have to lose my cultural identity to succeed in today’s society? Kenji Yoshino, author of Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights, sat down with Dean Lawrence R. Velvel of the Massachusetts School of Law to discuss modern discrimination. The way Americans discriminate has evolved from the intolerance of the past. The traditional categorized prejudice is said to be retired, succeeded by a more conduct-based discrimination. Today’s discrimination targets all that refuse to convert to the mainstream perception of behavior. Americans seek a generic existence for those allowed to succeed in today’s society and punish individualism.
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