Reverse discrimination

Japanese: reverse discrimination(英語表記)reversediscrimination
Reverse discrimination

...Since 1971, companies and other organizations have been required to make efforts to reflect the racial composition of the local workforce in their hiring.
[Criticism of reverse discrimination]
Since it is not an order to hire a certain number of minorities or women, it is not strictly a quota, but there is growing criticism from white men that affirmative action is reverse discrimination. The system has a strong meaning of compensation for past discrimination against blacks who were forced into slavery, and some have criticized it from the beginning as violating the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination.

*Some of the terminology that refers to "reverse discrimination" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…71年からは,地域の労働力の人種構成が企業などの雇用に反映するよう努力することが求められるようになった。
[逆差別という批判]
 少数民族や女性を何人採用せよという命令ではないので,これは厳密には割当て(クォータ)ではないのだが,白人男性からアファーマティブ・アクションは逆差別reverse discriminationであるという批判が強まっている。この制度は奴隷制を強いられた黒人への過去の差別に対する補償という意味合いが強く,差別を禁じた公民権法に違反するという批判が当初から一部にあった。…

※「reverse discrimination」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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