How did employment discrimination start?

Answer 1

Employment discrimination has existed as long as multi-ethnic societies have. The dominant ethnicity wishes to hoard technological know-how and financial power by preventing minority groups from having a political stake (that comes with a true equality in employment).

Answer 2

Well basically discrimination is happening in any way that people all it TO happen. For example, if you are a religious figure and you notice that there are people within your organization that don't allow certain denomination into your institution, then you are allowing that sort of discrimination to happen. The media is a huge way of promoting discrimination. It is quick, easy, free, and reaches across the world. I'm sure if it could reach aliens on Mars, then they too would see discrimination in action. For every moment someone goes without standing up against discrimination, it will continue to happen. For every rude comment someone's mother makes about another person, that child will process it and continue to think it until they are directed in the appropriate direction. Discrimination started with people and is promoted and allowed by people. It can also be stopped by people.

Answer 3

Discrimination and xenophobia are endemic conditions to a tribal animals, such as humans are. From the earliest periods of city-states, we see discrimination against the residents of other city-states and peoples of the periphery. The city-states encouraged this in their Propaganda to make their population more ready to defend the government of those states.

However, particular instances of discrimination, such as Anti-Black Racism, Anti-Semitism (Judenhass), Anti-Ziganism, Anti-Catholic hatred, Anti-Protestant hatred, Anti-Muhammadanism, etc. come as a result of particular political experiences and historical circumstances. For example, anti-Black Racism developed from the European need to justify the mass enslavement of Black peoples prior to shipping them en masse to the Americas. Prior to this, Blacks were simply a different group of people who were inferior because they were different than "civilized people", just as Vikings were. However, in the 15th and 16th centuries literature developed "explaining" that Blacks were an especially accursed and more monkey-like people and, therefore, it was not only just to enslave them, but desirable since they could be "acculturated" by the European civilizations that would rob them of their lives.