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  2. Discrimination against people with red hair - Wikipedia

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    The term "ginger" is considered by some to be pejorative or offensive, with some considering it only acceptable when used by a person with red hair to refer to themselves or others with red hair. [ 20 ] [ 24 ] [ 43 ] [ 44 ] The use of the term to refer to persons with red hair may be a reference to the spicy ginger root , an amplification of ...

  3. List of disability-related terms with negative connotations

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    Some people consider it best to use person-first language, for example "a person with a disability" rather than "a disabled person." [1] However identity-first language, as in "autistic person" or "deaf person", is preferred by many people and organizations. [2] Language can influence individuals' perception of disabled people and disability. [3]

  4. Red hair - Wikipedia

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    Red hair, also known as ginger hair, is a human hair color found in 2–6% of people of Northern or Northwestern European ancestry and lesser frequency in other populations. It is most common in individuals homozygous for a recessive allele on chromosome 16 that produces an altered version of the MC1R protein.

  5. Emotional or behavioral disability - Wikipedia

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    An emotional or behavioral disability is a disability that impacts a person's ability to effectively recognize, interpret, control, and express fundamental emotions. The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 2004 characterizes the group of disabilities as Emotional Disturbance (ED). This term is controversial, as it is seen by some as ...

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  7. Models of disability - Wikipedia

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    Models of disability are analytic tools in disability studies used to articulate different ways disability is conceptualized by individuals and society broadly. [1] [2] Disability models are useful for understanding disagreements over disability policy, [2] teaching people about ableism, [3] providing disability-responsive health care, [3] and articulating the life experiences of disabled people.

  8. Woman Fired For Being Too Fat. Claiming It's a Disability. - AOL

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    Fat people often are not hired because of discrimination. Employers might even be more hesitant to hire fat people if the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission [EEOC] is successful in a lawsuit ...

  9. Disability Misunderstandings Affect Mental Well-Being - AOL

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    Conditions like anxiety, spinal injury, ADHD, amputation, depression, cerebral palsy — these are just some examples. Twenty-eight-year-old New Yorker Chloé Valentine Toscano knows beauty, from ...