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Describe how status and power can affect equality, and how continual discriminatory practice can marginalize individual and groups within society.  

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Describe how status and power can affect equality, and how continual discriminatory practice can marginalize individual and groups within society. Discrimination is something in which everybody will come across nearly everyday of their lives. Whether it will be in the way that people can treat each other as they are not equal, or sometimes like they are not human. Discrimination can be found anywhere, like on a street or in a job. There is discrimination against the mentally and physically challenged, against people of different cultures, and people of the opposite sex, just to name a few. Discrimination may not make a large impact on someone's life instantly, but continual discriminatory practice can have devastating effects. It can actually come to the stage in which it can destroy the quality of someone's life. Discrimination is described by Maslow in his human needs pyramid. It says that discrimination can leave an...

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