Discrimination is a fairly obvious word that everyone knows the meaning to. It's a fairly easy word to break down too, which helps it to be understood by the masses. The prefix "dis" is understood as a negative connotation of a word that can mean to look down upon something. The "crimi" in the middle of the word can be easily related to the word criminal, and criminals do things in a negative or bad manner. Then the suffix "nation" is a common word that is easily understood and a grouping of people also related to nationality or race. You can put all of these meanings together to configure the meaning of discrimination which is to look down upon something in a negative/bad way in this case nation allows us to understand that they are talking about a certain nationality of a person or the region from where they came. It is a negative thing to be and unfortunately present amoung our society all over the place, some forms of it are small and mild where other more serious are large and direct.
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