A college professor and his wife were driving to their favorite place to fish in their "beat-up" old pick-up truck.A police officer pulls them over and tells them to hand over the drink cans they have because he saw them weave on the highway and knows that they are intoxicated.When he looks at the drink cans, both are diet soft drinks.If the college professor and his wife were targeted for questioning because they looked "poor," the officer has engaged in

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Discrimination is the unequal treatment or targeting of individuals or groups based on certain characteristics such as race, socioeconomic status, or age. In this scenario, the college professor and his wife were targeted because they looked "poor," which is a form of discrimination. The fact that the drink cans were diet soft drinks indicates that the officer's decision was not based on actual evidence of intoxication, but rather on his biased perception of the couple.

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