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> The details vary, but typically the things we can't easily change: race, nationality, age etc. Such discrimination is generally outlawed.

Also generally perpretrated, by the same body that bans it.

A great beauty about human beings is that they have a natural tendency to find what is best for them and their communities in spite of legalities that attempt to distort reality.

In any case, what you are ascribing as unlawful discrimination is absolutely lawful and you would be naive to believe that there were castings for white asian geriatric women for the role of Black Panther to abide a law about the positively-discriminated groups you mention.



Thankfully for society, countries manage to make common sense exceptions to those laws in a very limited number of circumstances.

Movies and TV tend to be among the worst for discrimination as a result.




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