Discrimination, the intended or accomplished differential treatment of persons or social groups for reasons of certain generalized traits. "We whites created slavery, Jim Crow segregation and contemporary racial discrimination over 400plus years now," Feagin said.Direct discrimination. This means treating someone less favourably than someone else because of a protected characteristic. Discrimination is an action or practice that excludes, disadvantages, or merely differentiates between individuals or groups of individuals Discrimination happens when people act on their stereotypes or prejudices. Discrimination refers to actual behaviour towards another individual or group. Discrimination in this context refers to the arbitrary denial of rights, privileges, and opportunities to members of these groups. To end discrimination in housing, education, employment, and lending, nondiscrimination laws needed to be enacted and scrupulously enforced. Discrimination means, at a very basic level, the act of separating out singular things or groups of things.