{"id":34202,"date":"2020-11-30T02:39:15","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T02:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=34202"},"modified":"2020-11-30T02:39:17","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T02:39:17","slug":"france-approving-a-law-to-ban-discrimination-against-people-with-pronounced-regional-accents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/france-approving-a-law-to-ban-discrimination-against-people-with-pronounced-regional-accents\/","title":{"rendered":"France approving a law to ban discrimination against people with pronounced regional accents"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>France\u2019s national assembly has taken the first steps towards approving a law that would ban discrimination against people with pronounced regional accents across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key-Points<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>A new bill banning accent-based discrimination, or \u2018la glottophobie\u2019, was approved with 98 votes against three, and spurred a lively debate in the lower house of the French parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If passed, the new law will make linguistic discrimination a criminal offence along with sexism, racism and other forms of outlawed bigotry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A person found guilty of discrimination on the basis of regional accents could face a maximum of three years in prison and a fine of up to \u20ac45,000 (INR 39.8 lakh).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Discrimination against people with strong regional accents was rampant in society, particularly at the workplace, and is a \u201cform of racism\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Ouest-France, a poll conducted in January 2020 showed that around 16 per cent of the French population claim to have been discriminated against during hiring because of their accent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France\u2019s national assembly has taken the first steps towards approving a law that would ban discrimination against people with pronounced regional accents across the country. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points A new bill banning accent-based discrimination, or \u2018la glottophobie\u2019, was approved with 98 votes against three, and spurred a lively debate in the lower [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":34203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1329],"tags":[58],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-34202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-november-2020","tag-international-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34204,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34202\/revisions\/34204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34202"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=34202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}