linguistic profiling

Topic: Is there a difference between discrimination based on hearing someone, and discrimination based upon seeing someone?

http://www.wordreference.com/definition/discrimination

This webpage gives a basic definition of discrimination. It says discrimination is the “unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice”. Therefore discrimination can be very broad as it is not held to any constraints and can be used in a vast number of ways. In my argument I shall use this definition to show that as long as a person is being treated unfairly, as a result of a prejudice being held against them, then it does not matter how the discrimination is being produced. Discrimination based on hearing someone and seeing someone both meet the criteria in order to fall under discrimination as they both go towards hurting a person. The only difference is that they go different ways about it.

http://www.blackcommentator.com/linguistic_profiling.html

This article talks about some of the research John Baugh undertook to show racial profiling and its effects. Baugh rang renters with a white and a black voice. He made more than 100 calls and found that his "Black" voice got half as many calls back as his "White" voice. It did not matter that when Baugh used his Black voice he was speaking perfect, Standard English. This will help me to show that, although the person can not see they caller, they can make assumptions on what the caller looks like based upon their voice. Once they have assumed what the person looks like they are able to racially categorize them. Previous prejudices held against that group are reproduced even though they may have never seen or met the person. Dr. Patrice D. Johnson supports this statement by saying, “Apparently if a speaker on the telephone sounds African-American, he is subject to the same kind of racial discrimination as he might be in a face-to-face encounter”.