Social exclusion and discrimination does not occur due to:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → Food habit
Option (3) Food habit — Not a ground of exclusion (Correct). The grounds on which people face discrimination and exclusion are gender, religion, ethnicity, language, caste and disability. Each is a social group a person belongs to, mostly by birth. A food habit is a personal or local practice, not one of these group identities.
NCERT (2025-26): “Social Inequality … Often we discuss social exclusion and discrimination as though they pertain to differential economic resources alone. This however is only partially true. People often face discrimination and exclusion because of their gender, religion, ethnicity, language, caste and disability. Thus, women from a privileged background may face sexual harassment in public places. A middle class professional from a minority religious or ethnic group may find it difficult to get accommodation in a middle class colony even in a metropolitan city.…” “Untouchability … ‘Untouchability’ is an extreme and particularly vicious aspect of the caste system that prescribes stringent social sanctions against members of castes located at the bottom of the purity-pollution scale.…” |