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Aren't their anti discrimination laws which should prevent such very obvious discrimination against some cultures??

Come on, It’s not a stretch that when being discriminated by school staff also other authorities like the police won’t be on your side.

The authorities response between the black live matter protests and the terrorism from trump supporters is just one recent example of this. As long as the people discriminating have more power than the ones being discriminated, laws only protect some.

In the US, such laws provide students recourse after they've been punished, thrown out of sporting events, etc. Schools and sports associations often update their policies after such events get broadly publicized. But no, the law doesn't prevent it altogether.

Of course, literally speaking, the law doesn’t prevent any behavior, it simply deters it.

I think the reason why we see these things still happen is because the laws are broad, continually improving, and education is administrated at a local level so you have different organizations rediscovering the same social issues over and over.

It's not just preventing behavior -- there's a ton of places where there are still variously unconstitutional/illegal policies and laws. Unless schools, local lawmakers, etc. are proactive in bringing this up to date (like my high school) then the legal system demands its pound of flesh to show that harm was done to force a change to happen.

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