PERCEIVED DISCRIMINATION IN TURKEY
under any circumstance is above average, and the ones defining it acceptable
in all conditions is very low. On the other hand, it is not a rare form of discrimination, such as the causes of discrimination based on youth, elderliness
and physical disability. The proportion of those who say gender-based discrimination is frequent or always remains above the average/median.
That means it is observed (the most common cause of discrimination
after political opinion, refugee and sexual identity) but not tolerated.
Discrimination based on political views, refugeeness and sexual identity is also
seen as reasonable by social consensus, gender-based discrimination doesn’t
take place as a result of such an agreement. On the other hand, gender-based
discrimination is not invisible or neglected as other discriminations based on
'natural differences'. This is due to the fact that the feminist movement keep this
agenda alive. Therefore, no discrimination that does not form a position
in political struggles is visible, on the other hand, as soon as it enters a
field of struggle makes itself apparent, the agreement that 'all forms of
discrimination are wrong' is beginning to deteriorate.
The second topic is a mental disability. The ratio of people who say that they
will not tolerate discrimination against the mentally disabled in any case is
at the lowest levels, coming immediately after the refugeeness. On the other
hand, discrimination based on mental disability is not considered among the
most common types of discrimination. Unlike other types of discrimination
that are more acceptable, mental disability is not a type of discrimination that has a high level of acceptance in all areas. In other words, the
discrimination of mentally disabled people in certain areas is seen as
natural or a necessity. Herein, the lack of awareness of the diversity of mental disability and how broad the concrete health status of the people under this
definition can be is likely to be effective. For example, it is seen normal that
people mental disabilities cannot receive bank loans. However, it seems unlikely
for them to think that a mentally disabled person who is in a position to fulfil
the application condition may also benefit from a bank loan.
3.B.4. Spheres Where Discrimination Partially Tolerated and Not Tolerated
In our research, we try to answer the question in which areas discrimination
is more or less tolerated in Turkey. For this, we scored interviewees' attitudes
towards intolerance of discrimination in different areas (education, health, business, finance, neighbourhood life, etc.). If a person does not tolerate any discrimination in an area, we give it a score of 10 out of 10. Thus, we tried to find
out how much of the total sample of the interlocutors scored 10 points in each
field. (See Table 2)
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