Underneath White Shirts

One thing I've learned from my night-outs in the last couple of months is that you shouldn't get involved with football, rugby, hockey - whatever sport they do - guys who wear white shirts at the disco. Otherwise, you might end up in their backs at one of your classes and notice that they are not as sophisticated as they looked like while you were drunk and they were wearing shirts. Even worse, you might notice that they have their hair cut in the shape of an arrow...

If you are lucky enough there's a chance that they don't remember anything and, if you're even luckier, you don't remember too. Apparently, I'm not that lucky.

While I should be paying attention to wage differentials between immigrants from Greece and German-born Greek background people, I'm paying attention to all the factors that I haven't realized that night and that, otherwise, would make me act in another way. Suddenly, there was one thing about the lecture that I paid attention to: taste-based discrimination.

Of course, in inequality class, it refers to the fact that discrimination derives from your preferences and due to that "initially minority workers will be offered lower wages but the final outcomes will be that minorities will concentrate/segregate in different (worse, lower-paid) jobs".

In my case, it meant "I like guys in white shirts without arrow-shaped hairs". What about all the things we discriminate undercover, underdrunkness, or underneath white shirts. Although that night I 'discriminated' this guy for a better side (white shirt = mega cute and classy), I've realised you better not to - either for good or for worst. ☼

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