Effects Of Discrimination

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Aggression Aggression can either be towards someone causing discrimination or by someone who has suffered from discrimination. Health professionals can be the targets of people who have experienced discrimination, as people who have suffered discrimination will usually take their frustrations out on the health professionals. Femi could be affected by aggression as she may have aggression towards others (possibly men as they could have been involved in the brutal and traumatizing incident) or people she meets may show or have aggression towards her (this could be due to something such as them feeling like she doesn’t belong in the UK.) Both of these situations may make Femi feel like she is unwelcome and unwanted in the UK as she could be isolated. Loss of rights through statutory rights Loss of rights through statutory rights is when it has been made lawful to remove a persons rights through statutory powers, using either force or power. The Equality and Human Rights Commission states “there are some specific circumstances when it is lawful to discriminate in…show more content…
This would lower Femi’s self-esteem because she blame the discrimination that she receives on her self which could make her question her self-identity. A short term effect of this treatment could be that she loses confidence, which could then mean she becomes isolated. A long term effect of this treatment/discrimination is that Femi could end up self harming, this could be due to the isolation caused and the way she has been made to feel, if her feelings grow stronger and she self harms more she could stop her counselling and physiotherapy and even though things in her home country are bad she may want to leave and end up going back which would put her in more

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